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  • SDR Interview Post VMworld – On VMware and Its Future

    October 2, 2013

    Business
    Bechtel, emc, Emulators, Intel x86 Architecture, Pat Gelsinger, San Francisco, VMware, VMworld
     

    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 SDRNews contacted me…

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  • Out With the Old, In With the New. VMware’s New Reality and the Carnage to Come

    August 27, 2013

    Business
    Cloud Foundry, emc, gartner, Nicira, Pat Gelsinger, vCloud, VMware, VMworld
     

    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 enemies, at least frenemies. Meanwhile a…

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  • EMC, VMware and Pivotal Initiative–A Confusing Triumvirate

    March 21, 2013

    Business
    AWS, BMC, cloud computing, DynamicOps, emc, Pat Gelsinger, Pivotal Labs, Socialcast, VMware
     

    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…

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  • On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

    March 6, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, emc, google, Nicira, OpenStack, rackspace, VMware, Werner Vogels
     

    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 breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems…

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  • A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans

    August 16, 2012

    Business
    AWS, cisco, cloudcomputing, emc, Nicira, Simon Wardley, vCloud, VMware
     

    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 –…

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  • VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

    July 17, 2012

    Business
    appsecute, BMC, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, emc, iaas, Microsoft, PaaS, Paul Maritz, Platform as a service, VMware
     

    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 ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely…

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  • How far we have come…

    April 10, 2008

    IT, Web x.0
    emc, iomega, mozy, zip drive
     

    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 ubiquitous external…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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