Category Archives: Journey to the Cloud

These posts are intended to engender discussion about what the cloud means, how it applies to you, and where you are on the journey.

The New Reality for VMware and VMware Customers

Posted on October 9, 2015 by

I have had the privilege to begin to work with the Cloud Native Apps team at VMware a bit over the past couple months, and I am becoming more and more convinced that this is a topic and a trend … Continue reading →

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VMware Photon OS, Kubernetes, & Mesos

Posted on September 18, 2015 by

VMware recently released Photon OS – Tech Preview 2.  You can find it here, along with some of their other open-source initiatives.  This post is intends to (hopefully) introduce folks to Photon and demonstrate how easy it is to use … Continue reading →

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DevOps, Cloud, and the SDDC…

Posted on October 16, 2014 by

If you live or work in technology, as I do, then you already know that change in IT is constant.  We all are faced with the reality that the technology you are using will eventually be usurped by something better/faster/smaller/better, … Continue reading →

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Five Minutes on PaaS…

Is your company is trying to change?  Trying to update from a legacy architecture?  Are your applications tightly coupled?  Written on outdated systems?  Would you like to take advantage of newer application capabilities on state of the art infrastructure? Skip … Continue reading →

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What is ‘Bursting to the Cloud’?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

Glad you asked, and in my mind, there are different things that customers mean when they talk about ‘bursting to the cloud.’ The Wrong Way – SIMMULANTS Spontaneous / Simultaneous migration of multiple workloads to a provider due to massive … Continue reading →

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Five Minutes on Desktop as a Service

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

When deploying any new application or service to our customers (internal or external), the choices for exactly how that service is delivered are growing at what seems to be an exponential rate.  New Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) offerings are driving innovation and … Continue reading →

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Five More Minutes on the Cloud…

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

What the Cloud Isn’t… I have many colleagues, that when asked about the cloud, will launch into a lengthy and somewhat confusing lecture about XaaS (Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, etc), or outsourcing, … Continue reading →

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