On-Premises vs. Public Cloud Telemetry
I was at an Intel Influencer briefing way back in [...]
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Feb 2021
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Oct 2020
Who are you Building the Thing For?
I once had the CEO of a company tell me that I helped bring the company he led out of the stone ages. The sales manager thought less of my work. The experience was one of my first understanding of …
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Oct 2020
Grading My First Independent Advisory Project
I’m re-visiting a report I wrote for one of my first independent advisory customers. I cringe at some of the structural parts of the report. I didn’t provide an overview of the customer’s business or restate why they engaged me. …
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Oct 2020
Wrong Questions Only – What’s the Best Kubernetes Distro?
I’m about as interested in Kubernetes distributions as I am Linux Kernels. It’s an implementation detail. At least that’s the theory. In practice, I’ve heard presentations from VMware, Red Hat, HPE, Nirmata, NetApp, and a host of other purveyors of …
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Oct 2020
Microsoft is VMware’s Biggest Threat
When I interviewed for an Analyst role at Gartner Inc., I had to participate in a panel defense of an unpopular position. I had to show that I could hold my own in conversations with customers, analysts, and vendors. The …
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Oct 2020
VMware Public Cloud Enables Infrastructure as Code
Are VMware public cloud options such as VMware Cloud on AWS cloud washing? Each of the major cloud providers has released a public cloud offering loosely based on VMware Cloud Foundation. However, VMware vSphere isn’t a private cloud. vSphere is …
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Oct 2020
Can Managed Service Providers Cloud?
Managed service providers (MSP) offer a compelling deal. An MSP may write a customer a check in the first year of a contract in some arrangements. In the traditional outsourcing model, they will hire a subset of your staff and …
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Oct 2020
What’s the future of the data center? I don’t know!
Warning: I don’t have an answer to this question.
What’s the future of the data center control plane? AzureStack, Google Anthos, AWS Outposts, and Oracle Cloud all offer a public cloud control plane residing in the customer’s data center. I’m …
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Oct 2020
Developer Originated SDN?
How would you handle a situation when a developer can open up a point-to-point tunnel between their Kubernetes hosted application and node on the internet inclusive to a public cloud resource? OpenFaaS project founder Alex Ellis created such an application …
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Oct 2020
10 Print “What’s Next?”
When I was a kid, I didn’t have the internet or even a phone modem to connect my computer to the world. It was just me, my keyboard, and my monitor. I get in front of my Tandy Color Computer …