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On OpenStack and the AWS API – Internal Divisions Surface

July 24, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, Cloudscaling, google, OpenStack, rackspace, Simon Wardley

It’s OSCON week, and three years since OpenStack was officially launched – in that time it’s built a vibrant ecosystem, real world customers and more debate than anyone would have ever imagined. There are some notable critics, none so…

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On Standards in the Cloud

July 15, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, AWS, cloud computing, CloudStack, OpenStack, PayPal, Simon Wardley, VMware

Cross posted from Diginomica The other day I wrote a post reflecting on a couple of conversations I’ve been a part of in recent months around the validity or otherwise of the entire “cloud broker” concept. The rationale behind…

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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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Who Said Dell is Dead? Enstratius Acquisition and Boomi API Management Play Suggest Reinvention is in Progress

May 7, 2013

Business

Alcatel Lucent, BMC, Boomi, Dell, Enstratius, James Urquhart, Mashery, OpenStack, Simon Wardley

Yesterday Jo Maitland, GigaOm Pro Analyst, published a pretty damning post in which she characterized both Dell and BMC as, essentially, the living dead. Her view was that the move to privatize the companies (a done deal for BMC,…

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Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting

October 22, 2012

Business

Bob Gill, cloud computing, Dell, Fujitsu, gartner, Magic Quadrant, OpSource, Platform as a service, Simon Wardley

I’m not usually big on Gartner’s crystal-ball-gazing Magic Quadrant methodology – some people claim it’s pay-for-play writ large. I don’t know about that, it just seems to be a somewhat hokey, albeit scientifically-based, prediction of what might occur or,…

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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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Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT

December 2, 2011

Business

cloudcomputing, James Urquhart, Service Management, Simon Wardley, Software as a Service, twitter, Wardley, Werner Vogels

I haven’t got a lifetime’s experience in IT. Rather than an impediment in my career however, I’ve found that having come from a varied background has given me a degree of perspective that perhaps some of my lifers don’t…

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Oracle Introduces Cloud and Social. My Perspective

October 6, 2011

Business

#df11, #OOW11, cloud computing, Ellison, larry ellison, OpenStack, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce.com, Simon Wardley

During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees, a number of announcements were made…

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