In keeping with the tradition of the last three to five years, 2012 is being touted by analysts and vendors alike as "the year for VDI." This year there is a slightly new twist to the hype and marketing, and that’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). It’s a simple concept: Employees own devices that they like to use and are most productive on; IT should support the apps and services used to run the business on the employees’ devices. To see the full post visit: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/232300473.
Focus on the Ball: The Application
With the industry talking about Software Defined Networking (SDN) at full hype levels, there is one thing missing from many discussions: the application. SDN promises to reign in the complexity of network infrastructure and provide better tools for deploying services at scale. What often seems to be forgotten are the…
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Your Technology Sunk Cost is KILLING you
I recently bought a Nest Hello to replace my perfectly good, near new, Ring Video Doorbell. The experience got me thinking about sunk cost in IT and how significantly it strangles the business and costs companies ridiculous amounts of money. When I first saw the Nest Hello, I had no…
The Difference Between Private Cloud and Converged Infrastructure
With all of the hype around private clouds and manufacturer private cloud infrastructure stacks I thought I’d take some time to differentiate between ‘private-cloud’ and ‘converged-infrastructure.’ For some background on Private Cloud see two of my previous posts: http://www.definethecloud.net/building-a-private-cloud and http://www.definethecloud.net/is-private-cloud-a-unicorn. Private clouds typically consist of four architectural stages (I…