http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole Comment Feed for Arthur Cole Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:03:37 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-07T13:03:37Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33980 Great post Arthur. I have quoted you on my blog.   http://wp.me/pmAb3-o     Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:03:37 GMT Christian http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33980 2009-11-07T13:03:37Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33971 the previous post makes a good point.  What good is a cloud where you own the whole platform in your datacenter?    A nice application of the "internal" private cloud is when you have a shared service model that charges business units Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:29:23 GMT user1271168 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33971 2009-11-06T22:29:23Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-rise-of-commodity-data-centers/?cs=37207#comment-33967 If a new data center appeared on your doorstep today, perfectly configured to your needs, tomorrow its already a bit off and by 3 years somewhat off unless you adapt to changing application demands and vendor technology capabilities.   Greenfields Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:06:09 GMT User1748607 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-rise-of-commodity-data-centers/?cs=37207#comment-33967 2009-11-06T19:06:09Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33964 Nice post indeed. I'd be interested to hear your views on organizations who are adopting products like Eucalyptus to deploy "internal" clouds (if such a term can really exist). I think there is an element of confusion around the term Private Cloud and Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:32:57 GMT user1421600 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33964 2009-11-06T16:32:57Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/will-google-kill-the-infrastructure-star/?cs=36956#comment-33875 Google needs to partner with a formidable challenger to gain application market share- There are more than a few hardware providers who have not been happy about hosting Microsoft. Lenovo, Sony, and many asian hardware manufacturers could easily be Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:24:36 GMT John Smith http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/will-google-kill-the-infrastructure-star/?cs=36956#comment-33875 2009-11-02T22:24:36Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33872 Nice post Arthur. Another important player with hosted private cloud services is SoftLayer. They even offer bare metal private cloud services.   Paul Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:16:41 GMT Paul Burns http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167#comment-33872 2009-11-02T20:16:41Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/to-virtualize-the-desktop-or-not/?cs=12325#comment-33734 Virtual desktops must have an experience that’s close to what users get today with their existing PCs. Without which companies would see productivity lost as a result of users not being able to accomplish tasks on VDIs. Citrix with its HDX technology Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:58:43 GMT Desktop Virtualization http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/to-virtualize-the-desktop-or-not/?cs=12325#comment-33734 2009-10-22T20:58:43Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33733 Companies considering desktop virtualization today are doing so to escape from the old tired way of managing applications and desktops in the enterprise. Desktop virtualization allows companies to be  nimble and respond quickly to changes in Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:24:31 GMT Desktop Virtualization http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33733 2009-10-22T20:24:31Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/managing-the-cloud-infrastructure/?cs=36898#comment-33731 check out OpSourceCloud.net use promo dmc01 for a 20% discount on the first month...give it a try Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:10:13 GMT techmac87 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/managing-the-cloud-infrastructure/?cs=36898#comment-33731 2009-10-22T19:10:13Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/optimizing-the-wan-for-a-better-cloud/?cs=32631#comment-33607 Interesting article. We're struggling to capture a vendor who is focusing in this area specifically. Our VPN platform from NeoAccel talks about, optimization of TCP traffic and end to end security and the fact that as everyone accesses the Cloud from Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:49:31 GMT Scott Dobson http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/optimizing-the-wan-for-a-better-cloud/?cs=32631#comment-33607 2009-10-14T13:49:31Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/it-poised-for-a-comeback/?cs=36566#comment-33604 Virtualisation, cloud computing has become the buzz word for the industry and they rely on Servers for storage. Necessary move. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:53:06 GMT Ashley http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/it-poised-for-a-comeback/?cs=36566#comment-33604 2009-10-14T07:53:06Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33602 Have you considered Citrix Branch Repeater? Branch Repeater, a branch optimization solution,  provides enhancements to the HDX module maintaining the same high-definition user experience even in the case of deteoriating network conditions (high Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:37:21 GMT Satya Vardharajan http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33602 2009-10-13T23:37:21Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33579 eh...10GbE?  Are you delivering full motion HD video?  I personally think this is crazy for most use cases.  Seriously, measure the amount of bandwidth required to do your job done...that is after all the reason the company provides you a Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:39:03 GMT Rodd Ahrenstorff http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33579 2009-10-12T21:39:03Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33535 There are various organizations looking at managed services, like Akamai, that allow the internet to be a high-performance and highly available platform for the delivery of desktop & application virtualization environments as opposed to WAN or Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:32:34 GMT Alx Frances http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/vdi-over-the-wan/?cs=36527#comment-33535 2009-10-09T14:32:34Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/multicore-software-development-moving-slowly/?cs=12108#comment-33427 Nice top to have it in different one which i come in this blog thanks to article i got lot ideas on this blog i would like to share about The custom software development companies develop their products for a single customer keeping in mind the specific Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:22:14 GMT software development services http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/multicore-software-development-moving-slowly/?cs=12108#comment-33427 2009-10-03T07:22:14Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/on-the-road-to-full-virtualization/?cs=36233#comment-33395 The single largest factor we need to consider is virtual sprawl, the saving we could achieve will vanish. I agree that in order to take full advantage virtualization needs to move to the cloud. Five years into the future the face of desktop computing Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:49:48 GMT Wolfgang http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/on-the-road-to-full-virtualization/?cs=36233#comment-33395 2009-10-01T02:49:48Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/ssds-and-the-reliability-factor/?cs=36187#comment-33352 I think you mean 60 and 120 GB instead of "adding Samsung 60 and 120 TB devices to the ProLiant G6 and G5 machines."   Excellent info, as usual. I added you to my blogroll this weekend. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:56:10 GMT Joe Gleinser http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/ssds-and-the-reliability-factor/?cs=36187#comment-33352 2009-09-28T21:56:10Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/is-it-time-for-optical-storage/?cs=11974#comment-33330 The issue is to migrate every 4-5 years (Tape environments), or mitigate that risk by migrating to optical now and never have to again. Tape is great for small environments looking for quick nifty backups of non archival grade data. Which means Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:56:24 GMT Alani Kuye http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/is-it-time-for-optical-storage/?cs=11974#comment-33330 2009-09-26T23:56:24Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/infiniband-and-the-cloud/?cs=35925#comment-33304 Now that we can move OS workloads which talk to each other closer together, there is less of a need the the dinosaur ethernet design.  on top of performance, this is why infiniband should win this race. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:36:03 GMT Jacob http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/infiniband-and-the-cloud/?cs=35925#comment-33304 2009-09-25T11:36:03Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/big-or-small-the-future-of-server-architectures/?cs=36058#comment-33300 I feel Small Servers are going to grow in near future. Small servers provide best solution for small business and are more cheaper than mainframe servers.   Increasing access to broadband and other high speed and cost Internet solutions will enable Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:02:37 GMT Saleem Awan http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/big-or-small-the-future-of-server-architectures/?cs=36058#comment-33300 2009-09-25T05:02:37Z