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.

What is ‘Bursting to the Cloud’?

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

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…

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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Vmware’s Project Horizon looks promising…

So, I may be a little late to the game (I know Brian Madden has already blogged about this a couple times), but let me just write it for the record – I love Vmware’s new direction with Project Horizon!! … Continue reading

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PowerPath Virtual Edition for vSphere

This past week, the vSpecialist new hire Team003 spent the week putting together a vBlock down in the Atlanta offices for EMC. As a veteran of VMware, I took it upon myself to work on something I was less familiar … Continue reading

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