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Re: Gartner Symposium: The Future of IT Sales – Tiffani Bova

kennyo — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 03:25:50 -0000

Surprised that there isn't mention of the alteration of the business model... i.e. moving from transactional sales to subscription / recurring models. Thoughts?

Re: RDS or Citrix: Which Do You Need? -- Redmondmag.com

kennyo — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:54:14 -0000

Thanks Greg. I should add that the "better together" story for Citrix+RDS is also available for workloads running in the Azure cloud. Check out the newly-published design guides at http://www.citrix.com/globa...

Full announcement is at http://www.citrix.com/news/...

Re: Two Announcements to Pay Attention To This Week

kennyo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:56:00 -0000

Thanks for the kind words about Cassatt, James. One bit of correction (or perhaps, re-direction): What Cassatt enables is a "generalizable" utility computing infrastructure. On top of that, users can build whatever IaaS/PaaS/SaaS they want, with whatever proprietary (or open) protocols they desire. To say that Cassatt is using "proprietary" protocols akin to saying an electric generator uses proprietary bearings. Cassatt has its own policy-based way of manipulating infrastructure -- but it nonetheless generates a generic utility computing foundation on which any cloud can be built. Ergo, it's *very* "commodity cloud computing" friendly.

And finally, the Cassatt solution has, for 4 years, been design primarily for enterprise use; so there has not been an emphasis on ties to external clouds. But the technology is so generalizable, that it's well within the realm of possibility for Cassatt software to be able to provision an EC2 CPU the same way it could provision a bare-metal SPARC machine.

Re: VMWare's Most Important Cloud Research? It Might Not Be Technology

kennyo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:03:52 -0000

Nice observation James, as always. But if I stood in VMware's shoes, I'd gladly accept some "channel conflict" in order to lock-up the market. My view is that the deals with service providers VMware is making is a shrewd approach to capture the entire "food chain" top-to-bottom, and ensure that they use VMware technology. For example, while VMware is most popular in enterprises, technologies like Parallels' Virtuozzo is most popular with MSPs. The VMware move is an attempt to ensure VMware EVerywhere. So what if they tick-off some channel partners.

My personal feeling: the end-users (enterprises & MSPs alike) need to wise-up and ensure that they have a multi-vendor virtualization and management solution from the get-go. It's gonna happen anyway; stave off single-vendor risk asap.

Re: Let the Cloud Computing OS wars begin!

kennyo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:03:30 -0000

Awesome summary of events today. The VMware announcement will legitimize "internal clouds" as well as the sharing of resources between providers. BTW, the OVF will make virtual machines more "portable" but doesn't solve for the problem of physical/native machine management under 1 pane of glass, nor does it solve for the policy issues needed to "broker" resources. Cassatt does these, of course :)