How far we have come…
In a reminder of how far we’ve come in the past decade or so, news this morning that storage company EMC has purchased disk maker Iomega. Yes the same Iomega that made the Zip drive, the once...
View ArticleVMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do
With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely...
View ArticleA Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in San Francisco for VMware annual conference, VMworld. This will actually be my first time attending the even in person and I suspect I’ve chosen the best year to be there...
View ArticleOn Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine
Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product...
View ArticleEMC, VMware and Pivotal Initiative–A Confusing Triumvirate
I wanted to wait a few weeks before commenting on the worst kept secret in enterprise IT, the fact that VMware and EMC are creating a new entity, Pivotal, that is made up of the cloudy assets from both...
View ArticleOut With the Old, In With the New. VMware’s New Reality and the Carnage to Come
VMworld this year was an interesting example of just how different the technology industry is today from only a handful of years ago. Solid partners of old have suddenly become, if not outright...
View ArticleSDR Interview Post VMworld – On VMware and Its Future
A few weeks ago I wrote a post reflecting on VMworld and the new reality that VMware finds itself in given the rise of AWS specifically and cloud more generally. After the post Andy McCaskey from...
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