Posts by AbstPoolAuto

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO, CCO to call it a day

Memristor is just around the corner... honest. Wait is it still 2008?

Happy mode, sad mode, DevOps mode: Stop worrying and go bimodal

I like the analogy to the wild west

There is a guy called Simon Wardley that talks about pioneers, settlers and town planners when describing this phenomenon and it helps me because it puts it in human terms that my fragile cortex can deal with.

When the west of the US was first colonized by immigrants it was typically the pioneers - the adventurers that wanted to break new ground and discover untold riches. Another group followed them, the settlers. Life wasn't easy for the settlers but they were effectively able to take advantage of the pioneers effort to discover new produce and then sell it back to the east. The settlers had sheriffs, and hostels, banks and bars but it was still a pretty tough and violent existence. Ultimately the town planners followed the settlers and began to develop the towns and cities that both took advantage of the new resources at industrialised scale and developed all the support structures that a growing population needed - schools, hospitals sewers and the like.

It is a pretty easy comparison to say Pioneers= innovators, settlers=early adopters and town planners = ITSM and ITIL folk. As PDH says above its a continuum - the trickle needs less management than the flood that follows.

Outsourcery: We've had offers for our assets (and, er, shareholders might get nothing)

I still dont understand...

Why anyone thought this was a viable business model - selling Microsoft Cloud based services and competing directly with Azure with all the engineering & scale that has behind it.

I suspect any privacy advantage was killed when Microsoft announced a UK based datacentre.

Cisco should get serious about storage and Chuck some cash about

A storage pure play company is going to really struggle in a couple of years, they are no more immune to public cloud eroding their customer base from one side, while hyperconverged erodes it from the other than EMC were - hence the need for the DELL merger. Pure, Nimble, NetApp, Tegile etc are especially vulnerable I'd have thought.

Neither Simplivity nor Nutanix need Cisco to succeed, so I don't know whether it would be in their best interests.

Nimble may well be a good shout given the low share price, other wise I'd wait it out and wait for the value of all those storage only companies to start deprecating, which I think is almost inevitable.

The kid is not VSAN: EMC buffs up ScaleIO for high-end types

Voice of customer

I don't like it when Pure do it and I don't like it when Nimble do it either, FUD is a massive turn off - focus on your products and what they do well.

Oh and and get your checksums right for Wall Street before you start criticizing others please!

Here's a great idea: Let's make a gun that looks like a mobile phone

Re: How pathetic is this?

I hadn't heard about any incidents relating to Myleene Klass but my gut feeling is that its probably all just hear'say..... I'll let myself out

VMware licence changes put users on upgrade treadmill

VMware memory Tax, Microsoft server 2016 core Tax. They are all as bad as each other. At least VMware rolled back on the memory tax debacle, I cant see Microsoft doing the same. How many people even understand that if they have more than 8 cores per CPU (pretty normal for Hypervisors hosts) that their upgrade path to Server 2016 is going to leave them with a licence deficit? Users running VMware vSphere Enterprise that want to deploy Windows Server 2016 are going to get hit by a double whammy

VMware axes Fusion and Workstation US devs

Is this because VMware focusing on other products to support desktop virtualisation for developers? There Containerisation strategy includes a container compatible desktop hypervisor called AppCatalyst.

Private cloud: Strategy and tactics from the big boys

Re: "[the developer] is in charge of everything from performance down to data protection"

''As soon as a hacker gets to know the cloud provider security scheme'' - are you suggesting this is easier than getting access to the security scheme of most in house managed corporate IT Depts?

Free Wi-Fi for the NHS, promises health secretary Jeremy Hunt

Someone may have mentioned this already but..

It isn't free, the product is you and the browsing habits plus the contact info are what make it worthwhile as advertising fodder. Even if you use dummy details the browsing history is enough to target adverts at next person along as it can be used to set trending for the service. I suspect WebMD gets hit a lot after every consultant visit! :)

You also don't even need to register on the WIFI for your device to generate useful info. Using the Wireless APs it is possible to triangulate the location of ALL devices that are broadcasting for a connection so you can determine the flow of people and traffic around the physical building which has to be useful for building planners and hospital management

IT infrastructure on demand? Yeah right, say devs

What he said ^^^^^^

Been a couple of naff articles like this over the last couple of days. The usually good Chris Mellor had a similar one on Netapp earliar - bias masked as analysis.

EMC CEO promises 'minimal disruption to existing product lines'

Its amazing the difference a few weeks makes. when the news broke it was FUD central, almost gleeful proclamations of doom and gloom and how this was the last walk of the dinosaurs in a cloud world. Pure especially were really vocal about it - almost as if their data centric storage only play was somehow immune to cloud. Fast forward a few weeks and the feedback from ESG survey finds the majority of IT buyers and decision makers positive about the deal and Nimble and Pure are suffering all sorts of issues on the New York stock exchange.

I expect more fud from the rest of the infrastructure players because I think they are actually starting to get a little bit nervous. I have to say that as an end user nothing grinds my gears like FUD spreading - concentrate on your own products and not what everyone else is doing. If it can't sell itself on its merits dont expected me to get excited.

Dell-EMC deal could be a game-changer for mobile networks, too

Re: Why the confusion around VMware

80% then although this actually strengthens the point I was making (that you ignored) - has it made a jot of difference over the last 8 years that it has been 80% EMC owned? has it continued to grow (virtzilla?!) and hasn't it continued to had very successful relationships with Netapp, HP and the like?

I cant honestly see how this maks any difference. Ill just leave this here http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2015/10/19/message-from-michael-dell-committed-to-vmware-independence-and-to-open-ecosystem

Why the confusion around VMware

As far as I'm aware the situation hasn't changed since EMC bought them - 28% or something owned by EMC (now DELL) the rest public owned as its a publicly listed company. The same concerns were raised when EMC bought VMware initially, citing relationships with HP, NetApp, DELL etc being impacted or damaged - that didn't happen did it?. I can Michael Dell keeping it at arms length as it is now because VMwares relationships with other vendors rakes in a lorry load of money every year that he can invest into the rest of his business and paying down debt, even if in some instances it competes with other areas of his business.

Better to get a wedge on the VMware aspect of a deal that goes to someone else than miss out entirely I'd have thought?

The incredible IT hulk: Dell + EMC - did someone say 'synergy'?

Regarding vmware

The same doubts were cast when emc bought them, whether the relationship with HP especially would be impacted, it wasn't.