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Originaly published at ca.com/blogs on October 12 2010, 03:56 AM This is a live blog, so appologies apologies for typo’s and possible other errors. This morning 6000 people streamed into the Bella center in Kopenhavn to see the VMworld opening keynote. I’ll cover the new items compared to the event in San Francisco. According toContinue reading “A (real-time) blog from VMworld Europe”

This blog was published originally as column at ITSM portal Many hypes in IT are just the same old idea, launched again, but with better technology and under a new name. Who remembers Larry’s original network computer? And who is just about to buy one, but now based on Android or iOS4? Similarly, we couldContinue reading “Downsizing, Rightsizing, Cloudsizing? Will today’s datacenter follow yesterday’s mainframe?”

You may have missed it in the flurry of news from Apple, but VMware recently had their annual get-together at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. On stage VMware shared two key insights: successful virtualization is becoming more about orchestration and automation than about hypervisors.  And, private clouds will rapidly develop into hybrid clouds. IContinue reading “VMworld 2010. Two trends and how they converge.”

Sure, it may all happen, but expect a similar timeframe as for the paperless office This post originaly was published as column at ITSMportal Predicting the future is a lot more fun than analyzing the past, but as Mel Brooks might say “A funny thing happened on the way to the future; it changed fromContinue reading “End of Outsourcing, Death of the Web, Self Managing Clouds? Not so fast, just yet!”

It seems like every week another sizing of the cloud market is published, and – maybe as to be expected – none of them seem to agree. Let’s have a look at who is saying what, and whether we are comparing apples to apples, or apples and oranges. We will start by looking at SaaS.Continue reading “Can the Real Cloud Market Size Please Stand Up?”

With security and legal concerns being slowly addressed by the industry, lock-in and standards are rapidly becoming the biggest concerns regarding cloud computing. If the cloud industry is to make good on its promise, these will need to somehow be addressed. Let’s examine some recent developments. Interesting to see how, just a week after myContinue reading “On Cloud Lock-in, Standards, Decoupling and why SaaS does not scale”

This blog originally was published at ITSMportal.com on July 14st , 2010 IT vendor lock-in is as old as the IT industry itself. Some may even argue that lock-in is unavoidable when using any IT solution, regardless of whether we use it “on premise” or “as a service”. To determine whether this is the case,Continue reading “Vendor lock-in and cloud computing”

In 1943 former IBM president Thomas J. Watson allegedly *1 said: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”. Will cloud computing prove Watson to be right after all? Anyone who visited a computer-, internet- or mobile-conference in recent years, is likely to have been privy to someone quoting Watson. Most often toContinue reading “Might the cloud prove Thomas J. Watson right after all?”