http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2014-11-21 22:28:22 - ARCHIMEDIUS : Last week as I was writing Amazon Declares War on VMware, VMware was preparing to announce the acquisition of a pro services team to aid in cloud migration see coverage in CRN VMware Acquires Professional Services Firm To Boost Cloud Migration, DevOps Expertise You can get my thoughts on Amazon s frontal assault on VMware and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546724.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546724.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-11-15 00:01:26 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I returned from re Invent last night after three days of what was probably one of the most memorable and impactful trade shows I ve ever attended Period More than 1500 attendee applicants were refused The show was packed This time with more enterprise IT leaders than one might imagine, with most fully committed to getting on http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545586.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545586.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-11-07 01:29:07 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The overall theme in a recent series of cloud predictions is the importance of cloud migration software and automation to the great cloud race of 2015 The degree of cloud migration automation will have a material impact on the rate of adoption of cloud services as service providers compete for traditional physical and virtual enterprise http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/544208.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/544208.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-11-06 00:08:58 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I don t do this very often, but lets face it drones are screaming hot and a perfect metaphor for automated cloud migration So check us out at booth 1242 and check out this IRIS drone by 3D Robotics http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543987.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543987.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-11-04 21:26:39 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I just published a series of 2015 cloud predictions, as have many fellow bloggers So to complement these predictions let me offer my 2013 and 2014 predictions, along with 2015 I ll let you decide which ones I got right and which ones I missed as we look to 2015 Dec 2012 Top Five Cloud Predictions for 2013 Hybrid http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543776.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543776.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-10-24 00:13:38 - ARCHIMEDIUS - This is a follow-up blog that is part of a series of 2015 cloud predictions The first one, entitled When the Walls Come Down, had the following as the central thesis In 2015 the perceived costs of cloud migration for existing production apps will drop by more than 50pourcents it will trigger a massive and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/542414.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/542414.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-09-08 05:08:10 - ARCHIMEDIUS - It was great catching up with Brian at VMworld, even if it was in the Tea Garden We go back aways This 6 minute video clip discusses who will win the cloud wars and how CloudVelox differentiates from a dozen or so early cloud migration and DR tools http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/533411.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/533411.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-09-05 00:30:27 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Guide Now Available Cloud DR on AWS Best Practices We just finished our first pocket guide on Cloud DR, entitled Cloud DR on AWS Best Practices If you are tracking Cloud DR and the various drivers, key terms, etc you might want to check it out You can get it here without having to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/533086.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/533086.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-08-05 19:48:30 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The City of Asheville s City on a Cloud Best Practices win spells trouble for traditional DR Deep trouble It marks the first time that Cloud DR has been independently and irrefutably acknowledged for both cost reduction and increased agility It was more than an acknowledgement that Cloud DR could work Asheville won a Grand Prize in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/528494.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/528494.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-07-13 02:04:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I ve been working on The Sword of Agrippa novel and hope to have it completed by the end of the year The first section a Prologue and two chapters is now on the Kindle Marketplace 399 Buy it and write a review, and be among the first 25 to submit that review and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/524912.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/524912.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-06-26 22:10:50 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Catching Up from the Airport The next five years ought to be challenging for infrastructure appliance vendors, especially those who see their future in the box We just wrapped up at the AWS Public Sector Summit, held in Washington, DC An ecosystem of about 3000 attended the 3 day event Massively disruptive software companies are http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/522459.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/522459.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-06-11 19:35:23 - ARCHIMEDIUS - When Amazon AWS announced its hybrid cloud console it set the stage for an all-out hybrid cloud war between a handful of companies, including VMware and Microsoft The first losers in the hybrid cloud war will be perhaps a third of all service providers those who are too small, too manual and too locked into http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/518356.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/518356.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-05-20 17:48:13 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I am looking forward to another great panel on cloud computing this week at Future in Review If you are attending FiRe2014 you are invited to our Wednesday afternoon session on Cloud Evolution Cloud Evolution New Operating Models for Business Transformation With Dave Campbell, CTO, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft Mathew Lodge, VP Cloud Services, VMware David http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/514522.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/514522.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-05-13 21:08:50 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Since launching Archimedius more than 6 years ago I ve enjoyed pontificating about long term trends, from the rise of virtualization security to software-defined networking and the internet of things Lately I ve been on a data center consolidation and cloud DR kick, spurred by career choices architected to place me at the heart of the vortex http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/513366.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/513366.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-04-26 02:44:17 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Thanks to a great product and some great customers we were cited as a Cool Vendor by Gartner for our One Hybrid Cloud platform I don t think I can say it any better than Gartner VP John Morency who included CloudVelocity in the report after a series of briefings and customer interviews The result is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/510423.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/510423.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-04-16 23:47:04 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Earlier this month I had the chance to talk directly with organizations leveraging AWS for cloud DR It is a very interesting and powerful use case Calling it transformative is an understatement These forward-thinking teams are using AWS as a kind of pilot light for a multi-tier app environment including a cloned database stack in AWS http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/508799.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/508799.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-03-03 01:26:09 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Last fall I wrote a piece for VentureBeat on the contrasts between two key cloud operating models My intention was simply to contrast cloud lock-in with cloud agility, and what that contrast means for IT teams, especially those who might be unsettled by the cloud I also wrote at Seeking Alpha that the cloud agility http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/500703.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/500703.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-01-21 22:06:37 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As Amazon, Microsoft and VMware engage in the first battles of the multi-billion dollar hybrid cloud war, you can expect to see a fundamental shift in strategy as the public cloud matures and becomes more enterprise-centric This should drive at least two major developments over the next 24-36 months, corresponding to rapidly evolving enterprise IT http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/493153.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/493153.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-01-02 23:27:35 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Most remember the medieval torture device called the rack, where increasing pressures would generate increasing pain and the threat of dismemberment in order to extract knowledge or confessions or wealth from the subject Perhaps the medieval rack is also the origination of the term racketeer In a few years the premise-bound hardware rack may acquire http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/489452.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/489452.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-12-31 05:35:25 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The WordPresscom stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog Here s an excerpt The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2013 If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/489000.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/489000.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-12-11 01:59:14 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The Amazon AWS public cloud offering has set the stage for a massive transformation of enterprise IT from being premise-driven servers, switches, data centers, etc to being services driven APIs, services, consoles, etc This transformation promises to produce a new crop of winners and losers 2014 should be a pivotal year in the emergence of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/485526.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/485526.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-11-27 19:51:05 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Let s face it, over the years I ve been pretty hard on the public cloud dream and the vision of running production apps exclusively in the cloud I ve been critical of Amazon over marketing the public cloud and promoting the idea of the enterprise w o data centers Events in the last few months have started bringing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/483341.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/483341.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-11-09 19:01:59 - ARCHIMEDIUS - With Microsoft and VMware entering the hybrid cloud battlefield, and the Amazon AWS steam engine continuing to convert more static racks into dynamic services, enterprises are poised to shift massive investments in data center infrastructure purchases into cloud services in the coming years At least that s the prediction being made by several respected analysts, including http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/480011.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/480011.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-11-06 00:50:27 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As predicted in 2012, hybrid cloud has now entered the hype cycle, with highly respected analysts and vendors making bold predictions that last year might have been considered provocative As enterprise IT shifts from hardware-centric to software-centric infrastructure, billions if not trillions of enterprise tech investments will likely shift from specialized hardware and the resulting http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/479238.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/479238.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-10-15 23:24:13 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I have written several hybrid cloud articles over the last 30 days, based on interviews with a variety of tech analysts and executives See, for example Microsoft and the 2014 Hybrid Cloud Showdown, Microsoft, VMware and the Year of the Hybrid Cloud and The Top Three Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Deployment One of the common http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/474832.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/474832.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-10-10 17:28:27 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Recent Microsoft MSFT and Gartner announcements have put hybrid cloud front and center for the next 3-5 years, and for perhaps a much, much longer period Market caps for several players could be at stake during these 3-5 years you could see the hybrid cloud eclipse the public cloud, both in terms of growth and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/473855.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/473855.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-09-25 23:15:35 - ARCHIMEDIUS - One of the most powerful use cases for AWS over traditional co-location is increased agility, especially when it comes to production apps with unpredictable workloads Rather than racking up co-location capacity for occasional usage spikes, QL2 Software discovered Amazon AWS and their powerful pay as you go IaaS model It has made all the difference http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/470849.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/470849.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-09-08 05:35:40 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Most of the biggest technology payoffs have been generated by companies that drove transformations in how data could be managed, distributed and protected From the mainframe era with IBM IBM through the PC era with Microsoft MSFT and the networking era with Cisco CSCO , disruptive technologies that set new standards for data analysis, access and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/467264.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/467264.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-08-23 00:47:10 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A couple headlines recently grabbed my attention, both involving Rackspace 1 Rackspace had announced that it is supporting hybrid cloud, because hybrid cloud had won the cloud war and 2 earlier this week Gartner released its estimates of cloud infrastructure spend, which I discussed in this blog at the CloudVelocity hybrid cloud resource center Google, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/464510.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/464510.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-08-15 21:23:04 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Enterprises are still dabbling in the cloud, and actively observing emerging cloud offering battles as megawatts of low cost and energy efficient cloud capacity comes online Apps running in the cloud constitute perhaps 4pourcents of all enterprise production apps, despite the obvious benefits Yet a Rackspace survey announced today suggests that hybrid has won the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/463199.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/463199.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-08-07 03:54:27 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As the cloud and the promise of an It revolution continues its ascent into the boardroom, there are two important questions that tend to get lost in the mist 1 What percentage of enterprise apps are and will be deployed in the cloud 2 How will these apps be migrated into the cloud The first http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/461557.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/461557.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-06-20 18:54:38 - ARCHIMEDIUS - This is a follow up to my 2013 cloud predictions post from December I wrote it as a comment response to my recent Azure blog on Seeking Alpha, then thought it worth posting and tweaking here It is a matter of weeks or perhaps sooner before Amazon really crosses the enterprise cloud chasm and embraces http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/452692.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/452692.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-06-18 22:31:48 - ARCHIMEDIUS - While Amazon s AWS is the undeniable public cloud leader and VMware the undeniable private cloud leader, Microsoft s Azure can certainly be considered a hybrid cloud leader, at least at this point in the evolution of the cloud as well as Azure I was in Redmond last week for a couple days, and had the opportunity http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/452193.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/452193.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-05-28 22:05:33 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Last week I attended the Fire 2012 panel on hybrid cloud with Yousef Khalidi, David Nelson, Simon Aspinall and David Shacochis Our conclusion hybrid cloud will win over other cloud operating models because it will offer enterprises increased choice and agility Ultimately the lines will be blurred between cloud operating models because of enhanced service http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/448168.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/448168.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-05-22 18:23:45 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As I listen to the spectacular panels on big data and the revolution in data visualization tools at Future In Review it occurs to me that perhaps IT has become a kind of impediment to where business and science needs to go The very systems that have evolved to bring us to where we are http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/447057.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/447057.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-05-07 00:28:27 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As Amazon AMZN continues with its amazing public cloud momentum, Palo Alto-based VMware VMW has stepped up its efforts to educate the industry about an even more powerful and disruptive form of cloud computing, called hybrid cloud According to VMware, hybrid cloud promises to be an upcoming disruption in how applications and services are delivered http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/443843.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/443843.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-05-01 23:52:43 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I wrote a blog for Cloud Ecosystem last month that talks about the disruption potential of hybrid clouds for disaster recovery You can read it here Hybrid Cloud will Transform Disaster Recovery Within a few days CloudVelocity CTO Anand Iyengar weighed in shortly after with The Hybrid Cloud is Ideal for Disaster Recovery A highlight http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/443018.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/443018.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-04-25 22:37:29 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The Amazonian ecosystem of mostly small and medium enterprises has grown into an estimated 4B market over recent years as public cloud has captured the imagination of developers and smaller IT shops Since 2009 the 3rd party data center and hosting market has grown from about 11B to close to 22B, according to one respected http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/441931.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/441931.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-04-25 19:57:35 - ARCHIMEDIUS - After completing Hybrid Cloud will Transform Disaster Recovery the broader implications of the seamless integration of IaaS with the data center became obvious the hardware-bound silos of IT will be significantly eroded by the increasing agility, protection AND control delivered by the hybrid cloud There will still be enterprise hardware spend and the required specialized http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/441884.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/441884.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-04-24 23:02:37 - ARCHIMEDIUS - On May 23rd at Future in Review I ll be moderating a panel on Why Hybrid Cloud will Win and What it will mean for the Enterprise CxO with Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft David Nelson, Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing, The Boeing Company Simon Aspinall, Chief of Vertical Markets, Strategy and Marketing, Virtustream and Jonathan King, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/441667.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/441667.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-04-17 03:14:33 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Ok, so I exaggerate I want to draw your attention to a webinar entitled Hybrid Clouds So Challenging yet so Promising that I ll be holding with CloudVelocity CTO and Co-Founder Anand Iyengar It will be live via the vanity link above at 9AM tomorrow on Wednesday, April 17 We will talk about a refined definition http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/439902.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/439902.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-04-11 21:30:56 - ARCHIMEDIUS - On April 29 at Computerworld s OSBC Conference in San Francisco CloudVelocity CTO and Co-Founder Anand Iyengar be participating on a panel discussing hybrid cloud with execs from Citrix, Microsoft, and PlumGrid, moderated by Mayfield Fund s Robin Vasan Here is the session s abstract We would love to see you there Public and private clouds have set http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/439016.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/439016.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-03-26 22:59:02 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I received an email from the team at CloudCheckr with some recently conducted public cloud useability survey research findings While I cannot directly vouch for the accuracy and the findings themselves I did find them compelling enough to share with Archimedius readers The data certainly plays to the argument that the public cloud does require http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/435972.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/435972.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-03-19 00:47:21 - ARCHIMEDIUS - There have been a multitude of hybrid cloud news announcements so far this year, many confusing readers by blurring the lines between public and private clouds, yet still not addressing the challenge of hybrid cloud automation and the importance of synergy Without hybrid cloud automation there is minimal synergy between clouds Let me illustrate the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/434381.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/434381.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-03-14 23:30:18 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The term hybrid cloud is replacing cloud computing as one of the most-hyped terms of 2013 because it articulates a cloud operating model think cloud virtualization that most if not all enterprises will find appealing Hybrid cloud promises to allow enterprises to operate seamlessly across multiple premise and cloud environments as if they are all http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/433647.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/433647.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-03-13 05:19:46 - ARCHIMEDIUS - When you enable a true hybrid cloud you, in effect, virtualize the clouds public and private Just like server virtualization allowed seamless orchestration across servers, hybrid cloud will allow seamless orchestration across data centers and clouds If a private cloud is a collection of hypervisors running as a single instance, a hybrid cloud is a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/433178.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/433178.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-03-03 17:37:06 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Top 10 Cloud Blogs http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/431136.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/431136.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-03-01 02:38:52 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The public cloud has been promoted as a low cost alternative to physical data center infrastructure, mostly to small and medium-sized businesses That has driven the creation of a robust category of cloud migration services which has emerged as these smaller businesses have made considerable investments in moving their apps from colocation and data center http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/430810.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/430810.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-02-03 19:27:42 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I ll state the obvious The last five years have seen incredible changes in IT, including the rise of new cloud operating models and the spread of virtualization into production data centers A new generation of upstarts has captured the imagination of the IT industry by unleashing new software and service-centric solutions, including private and public http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/425521.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/425521.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-01-29 21:20:14 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Just as enterprises start to dabble in cloud migration by migrating virtualized instances into public clouds, along comes the hybrid cloud meme, offering enterprises the promise of building their own hybrid clouds out of both virtual and unmodified apps running in cloud- integrated data centers Datamation predicted that the hybrid cloud management market would reach http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/424520.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/424520.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-01-21 17:37:49 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As the hybrid cloud becomes the cloud of choice for the enterprise, you can expect cloud integration to eventually replace cloud migration as a solution of choice While migration supports the migration of apps into public clouds, cloud integration supports cloud migration, cloud failover, devtest cloud or cloud cloning and cloud bursting Migration is a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/422962.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/422962.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-01-09 00:33:53 - ARCHIMEDIUS - 1 A recent blog from Virtustream CEO Rodney Rogers on why AWS needs to have an enterprise plan IMHO Amazon needs a hybrid cloud strategy 2 An excellent report on Amazon s heady revenue growth by Charlie Babcock Amazon s Cloud Revenues Examined Simply amazing growth now that AWS is getting evaluated almost as if it was http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/420574.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/420574.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-01-02 04:46:40 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Today public and private cloud operating models offer islands of IT operating efficiency that can be highly desirable for applications and services specifically designed for the cloud or which are already virtualized Yet for the vast majority of multi-tier applications the cloud is still a pipe dream of promises and expectations The problem isn t with http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/419393.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/419393.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-20 20:57:32 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I wrote Two Weeks in Vegas after I caught my breath from the back to back Gartner and Amazon AWS re Invent conferences Just saw some amazing stats as Amazon posted a link to the Amazon AWS re Invent keynotes Yes, the conference was a blockbuster Perhaps one of the best organized conferences in recent memory http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/418145.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/418145.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-20 20:06:29 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I ve read about a dozen different sets of predictions for cloud computing in 2013 and will coopt many I consider to be the most credible in order to create my own hybrid top five list These predictions are also influenced by a series of conversations with the team at CloudVelocity as well as a couple http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/418131.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/418131.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-14 17:27:01 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The likes of Amazon and Google been highly effective public cloud champions, just as VMware, Cisco and OpenStack have championed private clouds At the recent Gartner DC Conference 2012 the biggest theme was neither public cloud nor private cloud, but rather hybrid cloud Hybrid cloud is a form of cloud computing whereby applications and services http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/417104.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/417104.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-12 14:40:12 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Perhaps the most significant barrier to a true hybrid cloud operating model is a wide gulf of manual processes required to run existing multi-tier apps and services seamlessly across data centers, colocation facilities and public clouds That gulf is perhaps the largest barrier to the enterprise adoption of public cloud As of today there are http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/416547.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/416547.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-06 06:58:31 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A rant from the 23rd floor as I remove my lanyard and decompress Two weeks of recirculated casino air passing through two great cloud computing-themed conferences driven by fresh outlooks The contrast between stale casino smoke and fresh ideas was at times overpowering IT is bold and strategic again, with less control and yet more options than ever http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/415435.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/415435.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-11-27 13:33:59 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A recent GigaOm article on Amazon s enterprise cloud ambitions struck a chord after I landed at AWS reInvent A couple weeks ago I had written about the Public Versus Private Cloud Trap and a reader had suggested that the name game is merely a battle between VMware and Amazon who are, in effect, marketing to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/413621.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/413621.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-11-13 23:21:30 - ARCHIMEDIUS - At ARCHIMEDIUS I ve talked about the challenges facing Cisco over the next five years, especially the rise of software-defined networking or what some of us have been calling infrastructure 20 As networks become more elastic or dynamic, custom software becomes more important than custom hardware Think back to the glory days of SGI s multi-billion specialized http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/411242.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/411242.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-11-08 23:40:37 - ARCHIMEDIUS - While enterprise marketers and pundits fight over the superiority of public versus private cloud computing, maybe it is time to recognize that both fall short of the ultimate cloud promise, the hybrid cloud The hybrid cloud can make a data center essentially boundless, allowing IT teams to optimize apps at unprecedented levels of scale, efficiency http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/410455.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/410455.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-09-26 20:11:36 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Recently I had the opportunity to meet Max Leisten, market director at SciQuest via email So I fired a few questions his way about SaaS and thought I would share his answers I don t typically publish interviews, but I think SaaS is a very hot trend looking forward into the accelerated evolution of cloud computing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/401949.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/401949.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-07-03 22:33:29 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The latest Amazon outage again begs whether or not Amazon s customers are technology leaders or laggards simply trying to reduce IT costs to their bare minimum Certainly some enterprises are properly using the public cloud for key projects where a non-critical application or service needs to be created quickly and within a low budget Yet http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/385269.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/385269.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-27 21:31:57 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Or Why the 500kW Threshold Matters In Private Clouds and the 500kW Threshold I talked about why private clouds will make more sense for tech leading enterprises than standardized IaaS public cloud infrastructure For many enterprises, 500kWs may seem like an unforeseeable level of IT infrastructure, based on their existing architecture For them I offer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/384198.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/384198.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-27 20:01:51 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I ve been intrigued by two recent and fairly consistent comments made by cloud thought leaders about the power and significance of the under-hyped private cloud Zynga CTO Debra Chrapaty recently commented about the Zynga migration from public to private cloud centricity Zynga owns the base and rents the spike see The Power of the Private http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/384175.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/384175.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-25 19:59:10 - ARCHIMEDIUS - This recent interview with Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty highlights some of the benefits of private versus public cloud as Zynga leveraged the public cloud until they reached a certain scale and then migrated to a more custom private cloud, thanks to the Green Data Center Blog Zynga s CIO makes a call for energy efficiency Green http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/383637.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/383637.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-25 19:12:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - When meeting with the financial analyst community especially REIT experts we frequently get asked why technology analysts can be so bullish on data center growth, especially when other categories of real estate haven t been strong So we put two slides together highlighting the macro trends driving data center growth and why this bullish trend is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/383627.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/383627.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-19 00:59:51 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The following are the most read blog posts from June 18 2011 through June 18 2012 The Next Microsoft June 2011 As data centers move production racks to virtualization, VMware is well-positioned to become the next Microsoft Cisco and the Networking Industry Golden Age or Golden Fleece April 2012 Cisco s vulnerability to the evolution of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/382294.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/382294.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-19 00:14:10 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The following are the most read Archimedius blog posts from March 20 through June 18 2012 Cisco and the Networking Industry Golden Age or Golden Fleece Cisco s vulnerability to the evolution of the software-defined network is discussed within the context of a glowing Motley Fool article about the coming golden age of the network Is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/382285.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/382285.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-14 00:18:57 - ARCHIMEDIUS - At the What Every CIO Should Know About Cloud Computing panel at FIRE X, we talked about how today s IaaS momentum will shift to PaaS in coming years we also discussed the enterprise shift to private clouds with public cloud augmentation This panel was different from many cloud panels because it contained a mix of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/381452.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/381452.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-04 23:52:52 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As the conversations from FIRE sink in, I start to see IT evolve away from the conventional and highly standardized data center design to more advanced and highly-tuned architectures customized for particular operating missions For all of the buzz about commoditized infrastructure there has been very little discussion about the need for customization Yet, much http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/379448.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/379448.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-05-29 22:43:01 - ARCHIMEDIUS - HP recently announced a massive round of layoffs and at the recent FIRE X conference I was asked what I thought HP might be thinking Perhaps HP had become too big to succeed, according to one of the FIRE X futurists on the lawn overlooking the ocean at the Montage Laguna Beach I immediately recalled http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/378353.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/378353.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-05-09 02:35:29 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Commoditization of network hardware will increase data center power demands by enabling new levels of elasticity in IT infrastructure This is a follow-on blog post on HP s OpenFlow announcement HP Takes a Shot at the Hardware-Centric Network as it relates to the impact that OpenFlow and the subsequent commoditization of network hardware could have on overall http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/374404.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/374404.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-05-08 19:02:13 - ARCHIMEDIUS - HP is positioning itself to do the same thing to the network hardware industry as VMware did to the server hardware industry The idea of an automated network capable of responding to the demands of cloud has taken a step forward with HP s OpenFlow announcement Time will tell how serious HP ultimately is about SDN, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/374320.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/374320.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-05-01 04:28:19 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I didn t know whether I should chuckle cynically or slow clap the recent hubris of an Amazon executive, quoted in InformationWeek, with a tech prediction set to be fulfilled in a mere ten years Amazon Era Of Data Centers Ending The era in which most big companies operate their own data centers is coming to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/372859.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/372859.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-04-18 23:41:39 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A recent and rather ambitious outlook on Cisco at Motley Fool entitled Cisco and the Golden Age of the Internet talks about the rise in internet traffic and the growth potential it holds for companies like Cisco While the article does mention competitive pressures from the likes of IBM, HP, DELL and JNPR , it http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/370767.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/370767.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-02-17 23:15:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Last summer a CIO for a high profile ecommerce company told me that the smartest way to play the cloud was to rent the spike I just read the same thing from Zynga s Infrastructure CTO Allan Leinwand in Inside Zynga s Big Move To Private Cloud by InformationWeek s Charles Babcock We own the base, rent the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/358553.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/358553.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-12-28 22:12:09 - ARCHIMEDIUS - In the same way that the rise of the Internet led to the enterprise web web-enabled enterprise applications the public and private cloud is driving IT to new modes of operation, most of which demand more agility, more capacity and an even keener focus on operating and capital expenses This profound tension -between a substantial http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/349313.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/349313.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-12-20 01:41:23 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Earlier this month I attended the Gartner Data Center Summit, and sat in on several presentations, including David Cappuccio s intro keynote on data center trends and Neal MacDonald s session on virtualization security I apologize in advance for the breadth of my rambling and speculation, but I think the IT revolution playing itself out will mark http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/348110.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/348110.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-11-19 22:52:12 - ARCHIMEDIUS - For months I ve been preoccupied with Lew s Law, or the theory that IT expenses over time will track to the cost of electricity versus hardware, peoplepower, etc authored by Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker and shared in early 2010 with the then-billowing Infrastructure 20 Working Group After watching an SAP webcast shared by Reese Jones http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/341605.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/341605.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-10-29 00:43:56 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Two key industries industries face massive disruption in the coming years as IT becomes ever more strategic to enterprise operating advantage, and IT infrastructure scales to new levels of complexity and dynamism The future of IT will likely be created by those who accelerate the pace of automation and who build more energy-efficient, scalable data http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/337547.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/337547.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-13 20:25:57 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The cloud hysteria and the end of PC debate is today s equivalent to the dancing shadows on the walls of Plato s famous cave see Plato s cave allegory both topics are keeping companies and their customers distracted while the technology industry is entering an era of accelerating change more like Kurzweil s Singularity than Moore s law The mainframe is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/328610.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/328610.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-08-20 18:10:09 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I never thought I would hear Steve Jobs hail the post-PC era, much less IBM PC legend Mark Dean They must be right, because HP just announced its exit from the PC business But the Microsoft has said that the PC isn t even middle-aged This is as close as it gets to a meaningless http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/324248.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/324248.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-07-12 00:46:27 - ARCHIMEDIUS - It has been refreshing to see more coverage in the business and tech press related to the wholesale data center category, or what Michael Vizard has recognized as data center warehouses The concept of a company that builds and leases data center space in large quantities is unknown to many CIOs and CFOs, but I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/316363.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/316363.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-06-27 20:23:46 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Last week I had a brief meeting with Yoram Heller of hot cloud player Morphlabs and we talked about the next wave of cloud innovations Of particular interest was the concept of specialized software suites that ride on top of the commoditized cloud platforms that have so far captured most of the popular interest in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/313838.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/313838.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-06-17 19:17:55 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Last summer I suggested that VMware could be the next Microsoft A few weeks ago I saw Gary Orenstein s VMware is the New Microsoft just without an OS and his point was triggered this AM when I read a blog on data centers comment from Fabio Violante EMEA CTO at BMC If I may add http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/312009.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/312009.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-06-04 19:23:07 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Energy has been one of the largest variable costs for large technology companies and today is becoming increasingly material for large enterprises of all kinds Last week at the FIRE Conference I heard Ford s CTO talk about how Ford wanted to be seen as a technology company As I listened to Paul Mascarenas talk about http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/309182.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/309182.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-05-24 19:05:23 - ARCHIMEDIUS - For Some Vendors Cloud Will Become a Destroyer of Worlds The world of lock-in pre-bundled, expertise and footprint so kind to the likes of Microsoft, HP and Cisco is gradually transforming into commoditized hardware supporting ever more robust ecosystems of software that can be easily downloaded and installed and even purchased online via credit card That http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306853.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306853.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-05-24 19:05:23 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Continued from part two Going Cambrian Most of them are gaining traction because the proprietary link between hardware and software and the required services, training, certifications, etc that fueled the tech leaders for more than a decade is being eroded by virtualization and opening up the playing field in the same way that cable ultimately http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306852.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306852.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-05-21 02:38:28 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Some of the highest profile blue chip tech stocks appear to be under increasing pressure, and adjusting expectations accordingly Pundits blaming CEOs or marketing teams are missing the mark As chroniclers or observers of the triumphs and tragedies in the tech industry pundits sometimes miss the internal churning, burning gear works within companies and categories http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306304.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306304.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-04-13 21:37:44 - ARCHIMEDIUS - There is a robust data center colocation and outsourcing industry driven by the growing mass adoption of computing see Welcome to the Era of Mass Computing That business promises to stay robust for the foreseeable future As businesses build out their IT infrastructures many opt to place or host their racks or apps with data center http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/298222.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/298222.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-04-01 03:05:04 - ARCHIMEDIUS - There is a vast new technology infrastructure now building itself out with significant implications for Archimedius readers As you might recall from previous blogs, in 1999 -in the midst of the dotcom boom- there were fewer than 100 million IP addresses We are in the midst of a new computing revolution involving the mass adoption http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/295546.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/295546.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-02-06 06:48:59 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Having just read Google s Schmidt s Telegraph interview on the future of computing, one cannot help noticing the ripple effects of Moore s Law now being played out on a grander scale Now, the math of that is interesting, he says Doubling every 18 months is roughly a factor of 10 in five years In 10 years http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/283249.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/283249.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-11-16 04:03:29 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As Microsoft begins to embrace cloud computing one cannot help but to see parallels between the challenges Microsoft and Oracle face today and those faced by IBM decades ago As you might recall, IBM was as influential perhaps more so in the mainframe era as Microsoft is today in the client server era and Oracle is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/265049.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/265049.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Keep in mind that this was posted Nov 2008 and I just blogged about record increases in the population of devices connected to the network As virtualization takes hold in production environments and network strains accelerate expect the network to move to eth ecenter stage of hte virtualization and private cloud discussion G Networks are http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246471.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246471.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As a part of my summer repost of my favorite Archimedius blogs I include my chasm crossing prediction hat still stands Think about recent networking announcements from Cisco, F5, Juniper, etc as the drumbeat leading the networking industry to a new era of network and therefore IT automation G It seems counterintuitive to suggest that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246470.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246470.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The tech industry is in the midst of its next rebound, fueled by the spread of virtualization, the network-connected device explosion and the pending emergence of the new infrastructure 20 network In May I wrote about today s tech triumvirate of Cisco, Microsoft and VMware and how the future of IT will take shape based on http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246469.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246469.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The Intel acquisition of McAfee is about a transformation taking place within IT and pending collisions between devices, networks and systems At the core of this transformation is a massive shift from personal computers to network-enabled devices smart phones, tablets, etc a shift that will be even more disruptive than the shift from mainframes to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246468.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246468.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:00 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I am reblogging this Archimedius blog from 2009 in honor of Cisco s recent tablet PC announcement and my comment which follows in response to the Future in Review Infrastructure 20 panel As the lines blue between traditional networking players and servers and services I think it is very possible to see a networking player or http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246467.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246467.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-06-23 02:52:37 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I ll be speaking on a panel at Cisco Live on July 1 I m looking forward to talking about the new demands on network infrastructure, and whether or not the enterprise is ready for seamless cloud Frankly, so much of the discussion about cloud is for SMEs or regarding apps and so little is about the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/234019.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/234019.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-05-22 02:51:11 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Future In Review Panel Is the Network Ready for Cloud Computing Future in Review is Mark Anderson s annual tech conference, described by The Economist as the best technology conference in the world Our session on networks and clouds followed Mark s interview with Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie on The Complex World of Emerging Platforms, from Cloud http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/224623.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/224623.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-15 02:12:04 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As I mentioned before, Cisco s CTO predicted 1 trillion net connected devices by 2013 and I don t think Padma was counting virtual machines With the rise of the three horsemen netbooks, virtualization and cloud computing it seems obvious that today s enterprise networks are in need of a fundamental overhaul, starting with the automation of the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212299.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212299.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-08 08:27:05 - ARCHIMEDIUS - When VMware entered the production data center it was the beginning of a massive IT disruption with profound implications for careers, vendors and the next tech innovation cycle, driven by deep reductions in network operating expenses and equally uplifting increases in network flexibility and intelligence VMware set the stage for the multibillion dollar system virtualization category http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/199263.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/199263.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-21 23:18:20 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The much anticipated divorce between Cisco and HP that was announced in recent weeks is a harbinger for the network equipment industry Note Alexander Wolfe s comments from his Wolfe s Den blog Cisco has made what can only be characterized as an aggressive move emphasizing its strategic surge from a networking-centric vendor into a unified computing powerhouse Earlier http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193972.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193972.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-10 19:45:35 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A few weeks ago an HP blogger commented that infrastructure 20 is premature The intercloud concept has recently emerged as a topic of discussion in the industry Conceptually, the intercloud builds on the concept of the Internet where multiple providers participate in a ubiquitous infrastructure employing heterogeneous computing and communications technologies Greg Ness describes the intercloud http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/190585.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/190585.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-03 00:15:23 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Lew Tucker s response to the Lew s Law blog further helped to clarify the point I was trying to make about the rise of IT automation and the network s pivotal role While I m sure this is more obvious than brilliant, the cost of computing will continue to fall bounded only by the cost of the power to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/187913.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/187913.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-26 22:00:57 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Last week I heard Sun Microsystems Cloud CTO Lew Tucker predict that IT expenses would increasingly track to the cost of electricity Lew s Law as described to a room of thought leaders is a brilliant theorem that weaves a microcosm of IT trends and recent reports into a single and powerful concept Lew s Law is a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/185562.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/185562.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-16 05:54:17 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I love reading cloud pundits talk about the power of elastic, cloud computing You get as much processing power as you need, on demand Wow Enterprise IT types beware the cloud is coming Indeed it is coming, but on the way to the dream there are plenty of anxious wake up calls Check out Chris Hoff s http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182327.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182327.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-16 04:47:17 - ARCHIMEDIUS - This week InformationWeek featured my recent infrastructure 20 interview with Alexander Wolfe As the infrastructure 20 Working Group is in stealth mode, we focused on the high level tech issues resulting from the collision between virtual and static physical infrastructure InformationWeek Let s dive right in Define the issue, as you see it Greg Ness If you look http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182283.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182283.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-11 20:28:02 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Network equipment vendors today are suspended sometimes in disbelief, sometimes in denial- in a choice between innovation and irrelevance The world around them has changed dramatically from the first Interop, from the powerful supply chains that have driven time and expense out of dozens of industries to the amazing rise of ecommerce in retail and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/180320.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/180320.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 22:16:54 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Teslas, Teslas, Interests and Dogmas Last week I enjoyed the quiet exhilaration of riding a Tesla around Nob Hill in San Francisco before the annual SNS Dinner Tesla plans to go into production next year with a first run of 600 electronic cars, priced at under 100k each Charged overnight, the single-charge range is reported to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167933.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167933.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-02 22:16:54 - ARCHIMEDIUS - It felt good to talk to a couple cloud computing experts last week, versus merely typing thoughts to a screen as I usually do Special thanks to Cisco s James Urquhart and GigaSpace s Geva Perry for the 50 minute pod cast about the network effects of cloud computing My number one takeaway I think it will soon http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167932.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/167932.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-30 20:54:26 - ARCHIMEDIUS - It seems counterintuitive to suggest that the virtualization market hasn t already crossed the chasm1 After all, over the last three years we ve seen a stellar VMware IPO, Citrix s heady acquisition of XenSource, and Microsoft s much celebrated entrance into the virtualization market VMware s Q3 revenue was 490 million What s not to like After all, virtualization has been http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166870.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/166870.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-16 23:44:15 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As virtualization-lite creates swarms of increasingly dense VLANs in the data center, the IT industry appears to be responding by consolidating into coalitions, including Arcadia EMC, VMW, and CSCO HP COMS and IBM JNPR Each coalition will likely produce its own branded container dedicated to the simplification and tactical orchestration of growing VLAN empires This consolidation takes us http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161370.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/161370.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-06 02:17:20 - ARCHIMEDIUS - For months the infrastructure 20 blog has talked about the automation of IT from a network perspective, including the automation of the network itself While few may question the need for network automation most businesses today still run their networks like they ran their supply chains decades ago, before the network This great irony is about http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/158042.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/158042.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-14 02:47:49 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As infrastructure 20 is turned on it will represent an irreversible transformation in the way IT services are delivered The timing of product releases, investments and deployments could make all the difference for a range of companies and organizations Those who could be impacted include the cloud vendors including Google, Amazon, Rackspace and Savvis , the virtualization http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/150173.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/150173.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-01 02:44:54 - ARCHIMEDIUS - In a matter of decades we watched the data network eliminate middlemen and arcane practices that had been around for centuries, only to see these practices re-emerge at the core of the network Understanding this irony is pivotal to understanding what is about to take place within the network and its effect on the evolution http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/146239.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/146239.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-29 04:58:31 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As Cisco, HP, Juniper, F5, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others circle the data center field of battle, one strategic ridge of high ground is in network automation, or the ability to move or adjust provision IT assets at the push of a button without the need for extensive manual intervention That manual intervention accounts for a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/145345.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/145345.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-24 04:47:13 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A special thanks to the speakers and attendees at today s webinar on Virtualization and the Future of the Network Nemertes Andreas Antonopoulos, Cisco s Chris Hoff, VMware s Mark Thiele and Richard Kagan from Infoblox You can download the slides here Of course, you may want to watch the on demand webinar which will be posted in about a week http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/143850.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/143850.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-19 06:07:43 - ARCHIMEDIUS - It only makes sense that the steam locomotive existed before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad One breakthrough created the need for another The power of the VM virtual machine introduced unprecedented mobility and flexibility, albeit within the confines of a VLAN container That mobility and flexibility has created new demands for larger, unified and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/142420.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/142420.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-16 23:42:33 - ARCHIMEDIUS - One week to go Nemertes co-founder Andreas Antonopoulos leads an expert-packed webinar on virtualization and the strategic importance of the network Speakers Mark Thiele from VMware, Chris Hoff from Cisco and Richard Kagan from Infoblox Register Here for this online live webinar 8AM Pacific, September 23, 2009 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/141614.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/141614.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-12 00:39:17 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I had the distinct pleasure of talking to the Bob Dylan of Infrastructure 20, John Willis earlier The result was this podcast on infrastructure 20 John has a great IT Management and Cloud Blog You can follow his Twitter feed at wwwtwittercom botchagalupe John used the term infrastructure 20 about 2 years ago to talk about http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140201.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140201.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-12 00:39:17 - ARCHIMEDIUS - My recent podcast on infrastructure 20 with John Willis reminded me of some recent banter about my use of the term Cambrian explosion to talk about where IT is headed when infrastructure 20 becomes a reality In short, today we have a classic preconditions scenario when automated systems are connected with automated networks Synergy is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140200.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140200.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-10 03:04:20 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Attending the first Infrastructure 20 Working Group was a powerful, albeit surreal experience Watching Dan Lynch, Bob Grossman and Vint Cerf make the case for a revolution in networking and moderate a team of industry giants was more memorable than I could have ever imagined Yet I was also impressed with the comments and exchanges between http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139421.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139421.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-05 05:58:03 - ARCHIMEDIUS - There is a revolution coming in the network equipment industry and it was awe-inspiring to recently be in the presence of the revolutionaries They represented some of the best and brightest minds in the network industry, assembled for a full day at SRI in the heart of Silicon Valley The Infrastructure 20 Working Group held its http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/138109.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/138109.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-03 04:49:39 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The blog buzz on virtualization and the network has been gathering steam, including a recent Network World blog tying the issues together Virtualization, it seems, could be a big win for network equipment vendors and pros if they only understood the network impacts of virtualization After all, what is a cloud without an infrastructure 20 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/137209.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/137209.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-03 04:49:39 - ARCHIMEDIUS - During a lunch with Peter Coffee last May at Interop Peter made a comment that really stuck with me He said that tech marketers are essentially anthropologists Our conversation wandered around a bit, from our upcoming Interop panel on cloud computing to the advantages of various approaches to cloud yet his comment really stuck as I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/137208.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/137208.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-26 22:46:41 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A series of blogs began a speculation about the impact of virtualization on the network It s certainly fair to suggest that the network has had little impact on first stage VLAN virtualization, or virtualization-lite The real question, however, is whether or not virtualization or VMotion specifically will stay contained within ever denser VLANS F5 Networks MacVittie http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/134869.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/134869.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-25 23:28:02 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As I ranted about how networks today resemble yesterday s factories I think I inadvertently stirred up an even larger issue My buddy Doug Gourlay pushed the implications a bit further in his Network World blog, suggesting that the network could be at a kind of turning point My fear, that may be unfounded but worth http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/134386.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/134386.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-18 23:41:52 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Many of today s large enterprise networks are burning cash and are overly dependent upon layers of manual processes like DNS, DHCP and IPAM for starters to stay available and secure Networks were created this way from the start we architected networks to work just like the environments networks were about to transform From those early days http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/132107.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/132107.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-11 23:13:06 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Cloud computing and virtualization are promising more dynamic systems with unprecedented cost savings and network industry leaders are promising more dynamic networks capable of keeping up with the increased rate of change with these systems In order for the benefits to be delivered as promised IT will need to evolve from silos into multifunctional teams, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119635.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119635.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-11 23:13:06 - ARCHIMEDIUS - You can get the slides for today s DNSSEC webinar with Dan, Cricket and Scott here The version with audio and slides will be available at the dns security center and the DNSSEC solution section next week You can follow Cricket s answers to questions asked about DNSSEC at the new Cricket Liu blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119634.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119634.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-11 23:13:06 - ARCHIMEDIUS - I m moderating a panel July 1 on the data center of the future made up of a great team of executives from Cisco, Oracle, NetApp, VMware, EMC, APC, Emerson and Panduit Hoping to catch up with a few friends after the panel Drop me a line if you re attending http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119633.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119633.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-11 23:13:06 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The intercloud is the most interesting development in cloud computing and perhaps the data center since the migration of hypervisors into production environments It s a model for driving incredible scale and efficiency from IT systems and hardware, and it can be architected for both public and private clouds The intercloud turns a global network of clouds http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119632.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119632.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-11 23:13:06 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Thin Margins, Change and Differentiation As we watch the explosion of cloud events, press releases and panels is anyone getting a sense of déjà vu all over again It wasn t that long ago when Webvan was going to transform the grocery business with new technology and processes After a flurry of announcements and expansions we learned that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119631.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119631.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-04 22:08:33 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A few months ago I blogged about the Three Horsemen of the Coming NetworkRevolution One of those “horsemen” was the netbook computer NowMicrosoft wants to rename it Maybe it has something to do with theimpact of the netbook on the hard drive PC market and the powerfulrelationship with robust, pre-loaded operating http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105970.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105970.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-02 05:26:15 - ARCHIMEDIUS - After Interop I moderated a Future in Review FIRE panel and had thepleasure of asking executives from Infoblox, Cisco, F5 Networks andVMware about their perspective on infrastructure 20 The first partof the panel talked about the problems with today’s static networks,including rampant manual labor and outdated management tools; thesecond part http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104651.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104651.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-14 00:22:17 - ARCHIMEDIUS - DNS Tools If you are looking for DNS tools check out DNS test or DNSfreeware at the Infoblox web site You’ll find links t plenty oftools, freeware and additional resources to help you manage DNSInterop If you’re planning to attend Interop feel free to visit theInfoblox booth 1867, in the TNC demo booth 869 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95995.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95995.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-11 22:35:49 - ARCHIMEDIUS - As I mentioned at 3 Major Barriers to Cloud, the transition from techservices silos to unified cloud computing fabrics will trigger rapidgrowth and integration in network monitoring and dns appliancesolutions Integrated, automated, IP address management will beconsolidated into Grids with DNS and DHCP and network monitoringsolutions to deliver integrated views http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94562.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94562.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-09 14:20:54 - ARCHIMEDIUS - The billowing state of cloud computing -from expansive, hazy definitionsto product proclamations establishing a new level of irony for theterm “vaporware”- has clouded some potentially interesting debatesabout technology and business and the increasingly strategicimportance of the network I was on a call recently with somenetworking executives from Cisco, F5 Networks, Infoblox http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93994.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93994.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-18 04:17:41 - ARCHIMEDIUS - A Tale of Two Networks was a lengthy blog about the need for networkautomation as a result of rising complexity, more endpoints and moresystem mobility A key point buried in the blog was related to theincreasing importance of IP address management and DNS appliances Icalled out these points at the Infrastructure 20 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/85016.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/85016.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-13 22:58:35 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Infoblox has just released a new IP address management online productdemo The IPAM software demo takes less than ten minutes to guide youthrough the highlights of the new release, including smart folders,network map, network discovery, IP map and delegated administratorInfoblox has also announced a new DNS security webinar scheduled forearly http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/82811.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/82811.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 05:38:51 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Virtualization could easily be called the most critical enabler of cloudcomputing After all, it decouples applications from hardware, freeingup companies from being tied to specialized hardware and enabling newmobility potentials for processing power Those potentials could allowservers to be spun up and moved on demand from one data center toanother, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76697.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76697.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 00:15:16 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Preparing for the Shift to Club Cloud Computing A few weeks ago I talkedabout the coming cloud computing war by discussing the formation ofmulti-vendor cloud-driven alliances and their implications for the ITindustry Now that Cisco has announced its unified computinginitiative which includes Nehalem blade servers and IBM is now indiscussions with http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76627.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76627.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-28 23:47:47 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Whether you’re a small business considering cloud services or anenterprise contemplating public or private cloud services, it pays tounderstand some of the technical challenges and players likely to havea significant impact on the availability, security and costs of thoseservices Cloud computing is a game changer, and it may also pay tohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76454.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76454.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-17 02:23:58 - ARCHIMEDIUS - In the last 12 months networking vendors have discovered that they areextremely relevant to the spread of system automation, especiallyvirtualization and cloud computing Today’s Cisco Unified Computingannouncement has capped a series of strategic developments takingplace in the last 12 months and at the live analyst and pressconference event where the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71608.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71608.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-12 03:48:34 - ARCHIMEDIUS - Virtualization and cloud computing are promising to change the way inwhich IT services are delivered and, in effect, transform computing aswe know it today I think the promises are likely to come true, if andonly if critical technology issues are addressed Nicholas Carr told arecent audience at IDC Directions that “Cloud computing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70344.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70344.shtml