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- 2007: The year enterprises open their SOAs to the Internet?
- Those that follow the trends on the Internet and the trends within the enterprise have long noticed a very similar direction in both spaces for a while now; a push to move their software to a real services model. The reasons for this push seem straightforward: easier integration between...
- Tags: atom, enterprise mashups, rest, web-oriented architecture (woa), rss, soap, orchestration, enterprise web 2.0, global soa, web services, json, governance, convergence, business process management, lightweight service models, soa, mashups, rich internet applications (ria), small pieces, loosely joined, web 2.0, saas
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007
- I explored the rise of Enterprise 2.0 this year in last weeks year in review post, but 2007 will likely prove to be a much more intriguing year for the trend. The demand side of Enterprise 2.0 seems to be driven from a variety of sources that likely include...
- Tags: user generated content, enterprise 2.0, social networking, encouraging unintended uses, social software, global soa, enterprise web 2.0, products, network effects, orchestration, collaboration, governance, business process management, soa, customer self-service, the long tail, architecture of participation, saas, collective intelligence, hype, design patterns, web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
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- The magic commoditizing virtual machine manager
- I recently noticed VMware's second free hypervisor, a commentary by Gordon Haff of CNET (one of ZDnet's sister companies). He offered an interesting analysis of VMware's recent move to make it's embedded ESX Server available at no charge starting on July 28. I'd like to add a few thoughts of...
- Tags: revenue, xen, vmware inc., virtual machine, desktop virtualization, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP
- I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...
- Tags: virtual iron, server virtualization, disaster recovery, virtualization, servers, hardware, data management, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Citrix versus the Xen community
- As the virtual machine software competition heats up, one would expect representatives of each of the suppliers to take shots at one another in the media. I've seen a recent example of this.Two of the proponents of Xen, Citrix and Virtual Iron, appear to be having at it in the...
- Tags: community, citrix systems inc., xen, vmware inc., technology, virtual machine, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Diane Greene out, Paul Maritz to lead VMware
- While working in San Francisco, I received quite a number of telephone calls from journalists around the world. Since I was "off the grid" for the project, I had no idea what was going on. I finally returned to my hotel room and could read my messages, I learned that...
- Tags: board, vmware inc., microsoft corp., paul maritz, corporate governance, desktop virtualization, open source, business operations, corporate law, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Virtual Iron Chimes In
- As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is the first of several posts on what they had to say. My friends at Virtual Iron; Tony...
- Tags: marketing, hypervisor, microsoft corp., virtual machine, virtual iron, microsoft hyper-v, virtualization, desktop virtualization, hardware, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Microsoft Releases Hyper-V
- I just received a message from Microsoft about the release of Hyper-V. It has some interesting details about platform support and availability. Here's what Microsoft had to say Tomorrow, June 26, Microsoft will reach a significant milestone for customers and partners with the release of...
- Tags: microsoft windows server, intel x86, service pack, microsoft corp., virtual machine, hyper-v, vm, smp, microsoft windows, desktop virtualization, microsoft windows server 2008, operating systems, servers, software, hardware, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Virtualization slapdown: clusters versus virtual machine technology
- A friend in the industry recently asked for my opinion on an interesting question "is virtualization becoming a replacement for clustering?" I knew he really meant the combination of virtual machine software and management software for virtualized environments that provided orchestration and automation capabilities. Here is my answer to that...
- Tags: software, virtualization, clustering, virtual machine, virtual machine software, desktop virtualization, tools & techniques, management, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Stratus Avance a new take on clustering
- After many attempts at scheduling a meeting, I was finally able to speak with Stratus about their new virtual machine/clustering/HA software offering called Avance. It's Stratus' entry into the pure software market. Here's how Stratus describes Avance Stratus Technologies can provide some relief. With the introduction...
- Tags: software, stratus technologies, clustering, virtual machine, stratus avance, virtualization, desktop virtualization, cloud computing, storage management, utility computing, hardware, storage, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Selecting the right virtualization tools
- Virtualization is a very broad topic that includes mechanisms to move many types of functions into a logical environment that can have enhanced characteristics over physical environments. Access to applications, the applications themselves, processing of system functions, networking functions, storage functions can all be moved into this logical or virtual...
- Tags: tool, virtualization, storage management, utility computing, hardware, storage, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Email Frequency: How Relevancy Tactics Changed the Rules
- Marketers are used to planning ahead as most media buys must be scheduled months in advance to accommodate external press time and availability, along with the careful orchestration needed to balance the print, radio, TV, and online advertising with the updated corporate documentation, events, and most importantly, budget. Email marketing...
- Tags: listrak, marketers, e-mail, online communications
- White papers 2008-04-22
- Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA
- The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....
- Tags: web, web 2.0, soa, organization, enterprise, woa, service-oriented architecture (soa), web services, channel management, middleware, enterprise software, software, marketing, dion hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent
- In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...
- Tags: web, agent, soa, service-oriented architecture (soa), web services, middleware, enterprise software, software, dana gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source
- Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...
- Tags: appistry, application, open source, grid computing, appistry eaf, digipede, utility computing, it management, network technology, it service management, networking, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- HP launches data center as a service; The cloud meets outsourcing
- Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to launch an effort to offer data center as a service to large enterprise customers. The move is notable for the following reasons: Cloud infrastructure has been primarily focused on small- to mid-sized businesses that have been leveraging companies like...
- Tags: data center, hewlett-packard co., outsourcing, service, economy, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- HP and the next generation data center
- Today HP is announcing its salvo in the battle for the next generation datacenter NGDC. HP wants to be the winner in the battle for the universal hardware platform for virtualized applications, the battle for management and orchestration software for that datacenter and the battle to provide key global services...
- Tags: software, data center, hewlett-packard co., customer, dl785, data centers, virtualization, storage management, utility computing, storage, servers, hardware, data management, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- A plethora of PaaS options
- A plethora of PaaS optionsApple and Oranges Compliment One AnotherGreat piece that gets beneath the oversimplification that often 'clouds' the discussion. ISV needs are definitely different than the enterprise. We are big fans of several platforms including Force.com (http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/02/may-force.php) and Amazon Web Services. In fact Appirio has...
- Tags: it system, paas, paas option, plethora, phil
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- What would a next generation datacenter look like?
- It appears that my recent post, IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?, must have touched on something that had an impact on quite a number of people. I received quite a number of messages from people who either thought that I was on to something or thought...
- Tags: cassatt corp., data center, generation datacenter, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- SaaS and the global virtual stack
- SaaS and the global virtual stackMore ComplexityPhil,Let's stop talking about how complex IT can be. In reality, people want customisable on-demand applications sitting on a dedicated server, with a web presentation tier connecting to the business logic and database tiers. Trying to abstract the layers creates an un-manageable and exponential...
- Tags: software as a service (saas), service-oriented architecture (soa), web services, netsuite ipo, software-as-a-service, saas juggernaut, information technology, business logic, on-demand, user experience, virtual stack, soa
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
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