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I heard something the other day that came as a surprise. Andreessen Horowitz predicted that the cost of CPU’s would go to zero. It immediately got me to …
VMworld has become the conference where the hybrid-cloud conversations happen. In talking with customers, there’s no doubt that the future of enterprise IT includes a balance between on-premises and public cloud workloads. As one of VMware’s biggest partners, HPE is …
How does a cloud-first strategy impact your campus network design and operations?
I’m currently helping a client migrate their campus networks to a new platform. As a Saleforce.com solution provider, they are all in on the public cloud. All collaboration …
The CTO Advisor’s content is slanted toward the hybrid IT landscape. The coverage area includes the integration points of the private data center, public cloud, and software as a service. Enterprise IT shops will have some form of data center …
As companies begin to consolidate services into Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings vs. running data centers, campus connectivity becomes a more significant focus. In traditional architectures, enterprises may have both a private circuit and an internet VPN connecting the …
Oracle announced the shuttering of their Ravello Systems solution. Is the inability to capitalize on the $500M purchase an example of Oracle becoming too big to innovate?
Back in 2016, Oracle purchased Ravello Systems. A small cloud startup from Israel. …
2019 will go down as the year it all changed for VMware. Count me in the camp of people who weren’t impressed with their vSphere everywhere cloud strategy of 2016. Having vSphere in the major cloud providers wasn’t enough. Fast-forward …
A competitor has started to win your customers by providing a better digital experience. They’ve built an SAP Fiori app that enables sales teams to check the account status of a customer before going into a big sales meeting. At …
Technically, VMware Cloud (VMC) is any service found on cloud.vmware.com. However, from a practical sense when I talk with a customer, they want to know when VMC will come to their cloud provider of choice. Let’s take a shot …
