Posted by Mark Campbell
Virtualization isn’t the next big thing – because it was the last big thing. Virtualization is incredibly important and has laid the foundation for both non-cloud- and cloud-based worklo...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
In my last post we discussed the ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) direct white box hardware; in this post we’ll discuss the concept of SDx (Software-Defined Everything – also abbreviated...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
In my previous post, I pointed out that unified systems are an important trend to consider for next generation data centers and illustrated with the chart above showing the success of Cisco’s UC...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
There’s a revolution going on in the server market. No – that’s an understatement. There are two revolutions going on in the server market. And both dramatically impact the nex...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Solid state drives (SSDs) aren’t new in the data center for high performance use cases. What is changing rapidly is cost – which is increasingly enabling IT staff to use them in a more u...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Containers are being touted by many as the next big thing. What are containers? Containers are a form of lighter weight virtualization that allows the sharing of the operating system among the host ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
The chart above, courtesy of Cloud Spectator, illustrates quantitatively the points made in my last post (part 10: bare metal cloud) regarding the reason that physical servers continue to be so perva...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
One of the major problems with the mantra of “virtualize everything” is the stubborn refusal of physical servers to disappear. This of course is a major irritant to virtualization compan...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? Make me one with everything. I think of this joke every time someone tells me that they have a single answer to a complex problem. Unfortunately, t...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Henry Ford once famously said of his incredibly successful Model T that a customer could have their car painted any color – as long as that color was black. What’s not quite so famous is...Read More