VMware

September 11, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Director: Your Data Center Conductor

1 min read

Customers frequently comment that IT simply isn’t keeping pace with their needs.  Provisioning new data center resources can take weeks.  To be fair, IT professionals are doing the best they can but manual processes and organizational silos can make the process equivalent to trying to play a symphony without a conductor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc7U3VQIsk Cisco UCS Director’s […]

August 3, 2015

DATA CENTER

Accelerate Private and Public Clouds

2 min read

The pace of business is accelerating.  As consumers, the internet has changed our expectations for how to order products, services or information as well as how fast it is delivered.  Think about it.   We access a web page, order what we want and complete the transaction.  In some cases, our orders are delivered within hours. […]

July 8, 2015

DATA CENTER

Simpler IT Management Increases the Effectiveness of Advanced Technologies

2 min read

Advanced technology assists your business on its journey to becoming more efficient and agile so it can keep serving the rising expectations of customers.  But, how can you help these advanced technologies serve your business well? Technology headlines focus on the individual tools to help you support advanced technologies; but the pivotal reality is that […]

June 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

Empower Your Application Teams

1 min read

Application teams are the backbone of the revenue generating capabilities of all companies.  These creative people spend their off-hours working with the latest tools to keep their skills sharp.  Increasingly, these teams are going into the public cloud to develop their applications.  Why?  Developers need resources in days.  Procurement and IT quote resource delivery in […]

May 27, 2015

DATA CENTER

Deliver Infrastructure at the Speed of Need

2 min read

Smart devices give us access to information and services at the speed of need. But they have conditioned us to expect anything and everything faster — and that includes IT services. This expectation for speed coupled with modern technology is driving IT innovation.  Yet, in most organizations, delivery of consistent infrastructure to application or business […]

May 26, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco ONE Software Makes it Easy to Start Automating

1 min read

Companies’ expectations of IT keep increasing as the pace of business intensifies, creating greater demand for new services and faster access to resources and data.  If you have been reading my blogs, you know that THE way for IT to keep pace with the speed of business is automation. But buyers beware. IT automation solutions […]

April 2, 2015

CLOUD

Will OpenStack Blend? Managing Legacy and Cloud Together

3 min read

We talk to customers all the time that want to move to OpenStack, but the tools and processes they rely on just aren’t ready. Or the policies around their applications or data don’t support a true self-service cloud. Not wanting to be stuck with VMware for the rest of their lives, we talk to them […]

March 24, 2015

DATA CENTER

Deliver Services at Internet Speed

2 min read

How quickly can your organization stand-up a new application or deploy new services?  Most customers tell me, “not fast enough!”   I am clearly hearing from them that the new standard expectation across the organization is to receive precise data center resources in “internet time,” easily and definitely on-demand. But customers are not the only […]

March 9, 2015

OPEN AT CISCO

OpenStack Podcast #22: Sirish Raghuram

39 min read

This week the OpenStack Podcast’s guest rockstar was Sirish Raghuram. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Platform9 (www.platform9.com), and he’s also a former long-term VMware employee. From that unique vantage point, he was able to contribute terrific insights about why enterprises haven’t fully embraced the cloud yet and why VMware Integrated OpenStack is probably a net […]