Last week, I participated in a cloud panel at Interop in Las Vegas with Simon Crosby (Citrix) and Randy Rowland (Terremark) I mostly talked about the Virtualization Journey as a necessary condition to build a private cloud. Based on what I leanred from customers, I positioned the journey as the mechanism to provide existing applications… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
In previous posts, I covered the 3 main stages of virtualization adoption and the key elements driving the virtualization journey. Just a reminder that most of the material in these posts comes directly from our customers through a primary research project that we carried out last summer. Let’s now double-click on the Business Production phase.… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
The journey framework that I have been covering in the posts of this blog is applicable to both large and small and medium enterprise, say less than a 1000 people. The main difference between small and large enterprises is the speed at which SMBs move. Most of the ones we interviewed said they went from… [Read more…]
February 23, 2010
I was reading the white paper that is reachable from this site that our colleagues in the UK launched today. It is about removing IT from the boardroom agenda, which is a little counter intuitive. As IT professionals we do want IT to be strategic to our business but too often we end up on… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
In my previous post I wanted to talk about the project I am working on at VMware and why I am about to hit the road and go listen to a number of customers. I ended up rambling about how to listen to customers, what to listen for and so on and never got to… [Read more…]
April 29, 2009
http://viarengo.com has been running smoothly on VMware for more than 10 days now. CPU utilization is around 10% which is common in many IT applications out there. I am running two virtual machines on the server now: My web site A file server. Unfortunately I don’t really have the need to utilize the… [Read more…]
April 17, 2009
My virtualization journey continues. Quick recap: I created a Virtual Disk File (luckily 3 days before the hard drive of the server died) containing my web application plus all related data. This will turn to be a management challenge later on given the size of the VM (120GB). My alternatives now are to deploy this… [Read more…]
April 15, 2009
Now that I have my Virtual Machine file with 10 years of my life on it (as well as the last semi-production code I have written) I need to deploy it an run it on a virtual server. I have two alternatives: Run VMware Server on top of my new 4 core desktop running Vista… [Read more…]
April 15, 2009
The first step in my journey to a virtualized environment is to turn my physical website into a Virtual machine file. First, let’s talk about what runs on the server. Hardware: Intel-Pentium 4 based HP desktop, 2.8Mhz with 1.5 G of RAM and a couple of ~100G ADE Hard Drive. Software: Operating System Windows XP… [Read more…]
April 10, 2009
I recently started to work at VMware. It is a new technology field for me, after development tools, databases, XML and lots of middleware at BEA and Oracle. After taking a break for a few months during which I looked at various opportunities (in one of the worst economic climate in recent history), I decided… [Read more…]
May 4, 2010
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