Posts by M-Singh

India inks tech pact with EU – only the US has the same deal

Another elitist cabal? India's modernization has only really benefited the top 10% of the population, their elites, the Sharma's, Patels i.e.. the high castes...There is rampant discrimination in the workplace against lower castes and other minorities even within the modern IT workforce.

The west is blind to this as white people don't recognize how brown people can be discriminatory towards each other. As a country and current regime the reality is india is a hybrid of china and russia without any of the successes. The west partners with india at its own risk and to our own values.

VMware pulls physical to virtual conversion tool, adds VM to container conversion tool

Try OSAM as the replacement to VMware Converter for now…. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/4.3/hcx-user-guide/GUID-FF922494-22D9-4842-866B-5EBAC26EF835.html

I guess the downside is you will need an enterprise type deployment to get access to HCX or spin up VMC on AWS single host for a few hours to gain access to the tool.

Failing that try platespinner etc…

Dedicated (Local) Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service to grow almost 1000 per cent in five years

Re: Great News Suckers - On Prem Really Is Better

Having lead the charge with Inframod programs initially with solutions like VxBlock from VCE to SoftwareDefined stacks from Dell with commodity servers - Local-Cloud-aaS seems to be the natural evolution of this trend. The goal being to make the infra as invisible as possible to the business.

If we agree thats the goal then why is this not a good idea?

Obviously these solutions command a premium, but what your paying for as you put it, is outsourcing those traditional day2 tasks that traditional IT teams used to do as a feature of the platform backed by an SLA. I’m cognizant of the impact on real people, however from my analysis of customers with 300VM environments to 30K VM environments there’s some general trends for the next 5-10yrs that we can say with some confidence:

- 40-60% of customer workloads can/should run in the Public Cloud and from an economics, operation, strategy, dont belong in the DC

- of all these large populations of apps/VM’s, 70-90% fit this managed infra model

- There’s still 10-20% of workloads that won’t be a good fit for HCI or public cloud without serious rearchitecture that will take a lot of time and might not even be worth it given the value some of those apps bring to the business. Therefore will still be powered by ‘3Tier’ traditional building of IT will still be around, skills required, just greatly diminished.

VMware's K8s challenge advances with Tanzu Community Edition

OpenShift doesn't touch the full capabilities of the Tanzu portfolio so not a fair comparison, but your right to identify Openshift as a direct competitor.