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The Hybrid Cloud is About Choice and AgilityLast week I attended the Fire 2012 panel on hybrid cloud with Yousef Khalidi, David Nelson, Simon Aspinall and David Shacochis. Our conclusion: hybrid cloud will win over other cloud operating models because it will offer enterprises increased choice and agility. Ultimately the lines will be blurred between cloud operating models because of enhanced service …Continue Reading |
05/28/13 |
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Fire Panel Tomorrow on Hybrid CloudAs I listen to the spectacular panels on big data and the revolution in data visualization tools at Future In Review it occurs to me that perhaps IT has become a kind of impediment to where business (and science) needs to go. The very systems that have evolved to bring us to where we are …Continue Reading |
05/22/13 |
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CloudVelocity Named Red Herring Top 100 FinalistLast week CloudVelocity was recognized as a TiEcon 2013 Lightning Round Winner in the Software Defined Infrastructure category. This week I have the pleasure to announce CloudVelocity as a Red Herring Top 100 Finalist for North America. I’ll be speaking at Red Herring Americas event later this week. This is the second award win in …Continue Reading |
05/21/13 |
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Pretenders and Contenders in the Hybrid CloudMy hybrid cloud news ticker is starting to go off every day with yet another “hybrid cloud” announcement. How many of them are really about seamless integration of data centers and clouds? That remains to be seen. I haven’t seen any that include hybrid cloud services integration (Active Directory, LDAP, authentication, etc.) as part of …Continue Reading |
05/20/13 |
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Hybrid Cloud Services: The Final FrontierToday’s cloud migration solutions are, for the most part, pretenders. Beyond virtualized workloads and small physical and virtualized apps they don’t properly support production workloads in the cloud. Most of the apps are small apps that have been virtualized and migrated into just another form of isolation, this time on a public cloud. An entire …Continue Reading |
05/17/13 |
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CloudVelocity Named TiEcon 2013 Lightning Round Winner for Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI)CloudVelocity is happy to be selected as a TiEcon 2013 Lightning Round Winner in the Software Defined Infrastructure category. We’re in great company with others, each of whom has also been recognized for their leadership and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Here is the TiEcon 2013 …Continue Reading |
05/16/13 |
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The Hybrid Cloud Will Transform Disaster RecoveryEnterprises spend billions every year maintaining (and powering) duplicate racks and even entire data centers, solely for occasional potential use (in the event of an unforeseen outage or disaster). Required by law in many cases, it is probably one of the largest IT investments with among the lowest returns on investment. The money invested in …Continue Reading |
05/14/13 |
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The Hybrid Cloud Is the Most Agile and Resilient CloudThere are plenty of flavors of hybrid cloud circulating today in the blogosphere. Some vendors have advocated a hybrid cloud vision which is hardly visionary. For them, a hybrid cloud is merely two separate clouds managed by a single organization, perhaps with some minimal application portability between them or even SaaS being delivered via a …Continue Reading |
05/6/13 |
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The Hybrid Cloud is Ideal for Disaster RecoveryIn “Hybrid Cloud Will Transform Disaster Recovery”, Greg Ness, my colleague at CloudVelocity, discusses using the cloud for Disaster Recovery and its benefits as a seamless extension of the data center. This aligns well with my view on hybrid cloud requirements, which I believe are key to the hybrid cloud. Greg points out the efficiencies of cloud’s incremental cost …Continue Reading |
04/29/13 |
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The Cloud Migration Gap and a 60′s Castaway ComedyI’ve written a series of blogs about the economics of cloud and the lack of serious enterprise adoption of public cloud (versus data center and private cloud adoption) and I’ve reached the conclusion that the public cloud is: 1) ideal for new (or smaller) apps that have been virtualized and were intentionally created for the …Continue Reading |
04/26/13 |
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CloudVelocity Spring 2013 UpdateThank you for your interest in CloudVelocity. We have had a busy 2013 with more than 100 enterprise trials in place and several converting to customers ahead of our GA announcement. We have also added new resources to our website and updated our newsroom with recent coverage. The new website update (CloudVelocity.com) features our new Hybrid Cloud …Continue Reading |
04/25/13 |
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Future in Review Panel on Hybrid CloudOn May 23rd at Future in Review I’ll be moderating a panel on “Why Hybrid Cloud Will Win and What It Will Mean for the Enterprise CXO” with: Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft; David Nelson, Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing, The Boeing Company; Simon Aspinall, Chief of Vertical Markets, Strategy and Marketing, Virtustream; and Jonathan King, …Continue Reading |
04/24/13 |
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Accelerating the Hybrid Cloud: Cloudcast InterviewLast night I was able to talk to Brian Gracely at The Cloudcast on CloudVelocity and the hybrid cloud. The 33 minute interview (Accelerating the Hybrid Cloud (#83) is now available for download. A special thanks to Brian, who asked some of the most probing hybrid cloud questions asked by anyone to date. He is …Continue Reading |
04/19/13 |
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Why the Hybrid Cloud Will WinOn April 29 at Computerworld’s OSBC Conference in San Francisco I’ll be participating on a panel discussing hybrid cloud with execs from Citrix, Microsoft, and PlumGrid, moderated by Mayfield Fund’s Robin Vasan. Here is the session’s abstract. We would love to see you there: Public and private clouds have set the stage for a massive …Continue Reading |
04/11/13 |
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Hybrid Cloud Made SimpleThere have been a multitude of hybrid cloud news announcements so far this year, many confusing readers by blurring the lines between public and private clouds, yet still not addressing the challenge of hybrid cloud automation and the importance of synergy. Without hybrid cloud automation there is minimal synergy between clouds. Let me illustrate the …Continue Reading |
03/18/13 |
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Hybrid Cloud and the Power of SynergyAn entirely new generation of hybrid cloud solutions and operating models are about to transform IT. This coming transformation is so massive that many professionals today running apps and services in the clouds may even some challenge understanding the full potential of the hybrid cloud and the power of synergy. Let’s start by connecting the …Continue Reading |
03/11/13 |
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Cloning in the Hybrid CloudFirst, I would like to thank all those who signed up for the beta trial and tried our Cloud Cloning product. A special thanks to all those users who after trying the beta software provided valuable comments and suggestions. All of the user input has resulted in several usability improvements. In this post, I would …Continue Reading |
03/6/13 |
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The Cloud’s Next Killer AppsI think the new cloud killer apps for enterprises will leverage cloud-integrated data centers (or true hybrid cloud adoption), and will strategically transform IT operating models. Those killer apps will include cloud-enabled agility, protection and scalability. Cloud-Integrated Agility (Strategic Agility) VMware introduced virtualization-enabled x86 agility in devtest and then production environments as a way to …Continue Reading |
03/4/13 |
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I Have Seen the Beginning of the End of Cloud Migration. Have You?An entire industry of cloud-related consultants and service professionals has grown up in a few short years, empowered by the complex and risky process of cloud migration, or the moving of an application and its services from a fixed data center to a (fixed) cloud. The meteoric rise of public cloud has generated remarkable commercial …Continue Reading |
02/15/13 |
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Thinking Beyond Cloud MigrationJust as enterprises start to dabble in cloud migration (by merely migrating virtualized instances and sometimes services into public clouds), along comes the hybrid cloud meme, offering enterprises the promise of building their own hybrid clouds out of both virtual and unmodified apps running in cloud- integrated data centers. Datamation predicted that the hybrid cloud …Continue Reading |
01/30/13 |
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The Power of Hybrid Cloud DeploymentToday’s applications are running on a physical or virtual infrastructure with virtual infrastructures eventually evolving into private clouds. Applications are also evolving from single-system to multi-tiered deployment. The canonical example of a multi-tiered application is one employing a web-based frontend and database backend. Additionally, applications may depend on network services (for example, DNS, Active Directory), …Continue Reading |
01/17/13 |
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Hybrid Cloud Isn’t Public CloudThere is a temptation to think that all cloud operating models are alike and are driven by interest in commodity IT, or IT delivered at the lowest possible cost. For many (especially early) cloud customers this is certainly the case. I predict, however, that hybrid cloud will be driven by very different operating expectations, driven …Continue Reading |
01/11/13 |
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Patching and Testing in CloudApplication development, bug fixing, testing and patching the OS on which the application is running are routine tasks for a developer. But, this process could get very involved, as often this requires the same development environment as in the staging/ production. This translates into a hunt for getting access to additional systems or a request …Continue Reading |
01/8/13 |
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Hybrid Cloud Requirements, Part 2Last month we wrote about hybrid cloud requirements in an effort to encourage more focus on core capabilities. The first requirement had to do with new and existing multi-tier apps. Our rationale: a true hybrid cloud should handle all apps and not be limited to new apps created just for the cloud. Understandably, enterprises will …Continue Reading |
01/4/13 |
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Predictions for 2013As 2012 comes to an end, Greg Ness, our VP of Marketing, asked me to put together my top 3 cloud-computing market predictions for 2013. Here are my predictions and I would love to hear your comments and thoughts: 1. Hybrid Cloud adoption will gain momentum – New tools and technologies automating the steps required …Continue Reading |
12/27/12 |
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Hybrid Cloud WatchA couple of weeks ago NetworkWorld predicted that 2013 would be The Year of the Hybrid Cloud. A couple weeks earlier IDC discovered a hybrid cloud trend in their research, according to Cloud Ecosystem: “IDC discovered that as many as 40 percent of the enterprises using the cloud are already using a hybrid mix of …Continue Reading |
12/20/12 |
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Hybrid Cloud RequirementsLast week Greg blogged about the hybrid cloud barrier: Perhaps the most significant barrier to a true hybrid cloud operating model is a wide gulf of manual processes required to run existing multi-tier apps and services seamlessly across data centers, colocation facilities and public clouds. That gulf is perhaps the largest barrier to the enterprise …Continue Reading |
12/18/12 |
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Hybrid Cloud is a Game-Changer.Amazon and Google have done a remarkable job promoting public cloud, as VMware, Cisco and OpenStack have done similarly with private cloud. Yet last week at the Gartner Data Center Conference 2012 the dominant theme was neither public cloud nor private cloud, but rather hybrid cloud. The hybrid cloud is form of cloud computing whereby …Continue Reading |
12/13/12 |
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High Velocity Hybrid CloudI joined CloudVelocity (when it was in stealth mode as Denali Systems) because it represents a new generation of capabilities required for cloud-integrated data centers. Perhaps the most significant barrier to a true hybrid cloud operating model is a wide gulf of manual processes required to run existing multi-tier apps and services seamlessly across data …Continue Reading |
12/12/12 |
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Welcome, and an IntroductionI am very excited to publicly announce the beta of our products after more than 18 months of stealth development as Denali Systems. CloudVelocity is the industry’s first open hybrid cloud platform that enables existing and new Linux and Windows multi-tier applications to run in a public cloud without modification, automatically extending the data center …Continue Reading |
12/12/12 |
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