VMware plots datacenters without wetware
Anyone who earns their livelihood in a data center should listen carefully to what’s being said at this week’s VMworld because it puts their job on the line.
How Google is Driving Mobile Video Market Growth
Google’s top advertising customers are pushing for convergence of mobile and video quickly, which is turning into a strong catalyst of growth of the global mobile video market. With their largest advertising customers wanting greater flexibility in bringing video to mobile devices, Google will make significant strides this year to make that happen. During their latest earnings call, Google execs said that Android, [...]
Data Center War Stories talks to SAP’s Jürgen Burkhardt
And we’re back this week with the second installment in our Data Center War Stories series (sponsored by Sentilla). This second episode in the series is with Jürgen Burkhardt, Senior Director of Data Center Operations, at SAP‘s HQ in Walldorf, Germany. I love his reference to “the purple server” (watch the video, or see the [...]
The elephants not in the SaaS room
A few weeks back I was in San Francisco to attend All About the Cloud, probably the most important annual gathering of enterprise SaaS vendors. As I walked down the street from my hotel, I noticed quite by chance that Citrix was having its annual conference at the very same moment just three blocks away [...]
Research Summary: Market Overview – The Market For SAP Optimization Options
Forward And Commentary This market overview provides a starting point to SAP customers seeking optimization solutions. The document delivers actionable advice and insights into a proven collection of software solutions. As part of the full series, best practices documents will follow with in- depth case studies and a critical product evaluation of this growing market [...]
Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!
If you have been following this blog, you’ll know I have been profiling Data Center efficiency companies over the last few weeks. This week I take a look at Sentilla. I talked to Sentilla’s CTO and co-founder, Joe Polastre, the other day and Joe told me that Sentilla came out of Berkeley where they had [...]
Emerging Models for Enterprise Mobile Apps
Mobile devices are quickly becoming the replacement for the enterprise desk top and that trend has both corporate IT departments and software vendors scrambling to come up with ways to solve a host of issues. From the enterprise IT side…
VMworld: Private Cloud & Random Musings
I went to catch up with my friends coming from around the world to VMworld 2010 at San Francisco and ended up meeting some upcoming technology players as well. In the course of my discussions, I recognized the existence of a lot more energy in the cloud ecosystem – big and small, private and public [...]
Texas warns IBM on failed data center consolidation
In a classic case of the “blind leading the blind,” Texas accused IBM of failing to deliver on an $864 million IT initiative.
My “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” presentation
Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices Conference organising company iQuest contacted me last year to ask me to deliver a keynote presentation at their Green IT Summit. The event took place in Dublin yesterday and my keynote talk entitled “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” [...]
