This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog<. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog. I have used one of my recent posts in some off-line discussions about the use and penetration of virtualization in some accounts. In this post I’d like to expand a bit …

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This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog. There have been a number of discussions in the industry in the last few years about whether hypervisors are (becoming) a commodity and whether the value is (or will be) …

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Before joining VMware roughly 4 months ago I was wondering, along with many of you, what sort of company VMware was turning into and what they were doing and what they wanted to become in the long run. The more I was tracking VMware buying (supposedly) disconnected companies the more I was thinking "what does this …

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This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog. As I mentioned in my previous post I started working on virtualization technologies years ago. It was around 2003 when I started talking, at public events, about what one …

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This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog. I have been working in IT for about 15 years now, nine of which I have spent working with customers to get the maximum out of VMware enterprise technologies in the x86 …

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Yes I am back. After a few months of "electronic silence" (on this blog at least) here I am again. For those (few) of you that may have been wondering "where (on earth) is he?"..... well lots of things happened and I have been pretty busy. One for all I joined VMware after having spent more than 15 …

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Those of you that have been following me on twitter and on my blog know that I have been very focused on studying and monitoring the latest trends regarding which hardware platforms virtualization users are using for their infrastructures. This includes multiple points of view such as simple sizing rules of thumb, …

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There have been lots discussions lately about what's happening around Citrix XenServer. Perhaps too many. For what it is worth, I was one of the people discussing this on the net (Twitter, Blogs etc) with some other folks. I originally drafted a blog post when Citrix bought XenSource but it never made it (officially …

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The topic in this article is something that I have been thinking about for a while. It's about the methodology, the patterns, the habits - if you will - associated with how new IT infrastructures are being assessed, designed, sold and - in the final analysis - acquired by end-users for their datacenters. While it might …

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Last night I posted a new article about the SpringSource/VMware story and the potential implications for the industry that this will have. After slightly more than 24 hours I am looking at the statistics and they say I am just south of 1000 views, which I think it is amazing - for a casual blogger like myself at least. …

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