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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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  • The Great Cloud API Debate and VMware’s Hybrid Cloud – Inside Baseball, Unicorns and Rainbows

    September 12, 2013

    Business
    AWS, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Magic Quadrant, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, Paul Miller, VMware
     

    I spent a couple of days this week at CloudBeat, an event that Paul Miller and I have, for the past three years, consulted to on content. The highlights of the show for me where the panel I moderated…

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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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  • A Tale of Two Public Cloud Strategies – Dell Drops Out While VMware Embraces Hybrid

    May 29, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, cloud computing, Dell, Netflix, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, Simon Wardley, VMware
     

    Want to look at two legacy vendors displaying wildly differing approaches to the public cloud? Roll up and compare Dell and VMware. In the past few weeks Dell announced that it was backing away from its OpenStack powered private…

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  • The Empire Strikes Back – VMware Launches Hybrid Cloud Service

    May 21, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, data center, e-commerce, Pat Gelsinger, Puppet Labs, vCloud, vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware, vSphere
     

    There’s a fair few VMware folks scratching their heads today and wondering when the world changed quite so much. The company today announced its hybrid cloud solution, avialable today on an early access program. GA is slated for Q3…

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  • OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

    April 24, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, IBM, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, rackspace, VMware
     

    Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also…

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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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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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