Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 06 Is VMware really hurting, meaning are they coming a part of the seams? Or was the latest licensing bug issue just bad timing? It was a minor code mistake, but a major perception mistake. For something that happens all the time in a code development shop, more often than a [...]

Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 05 There is a trend in the Information Technology (IT) industry that is well known, well understood, and the truth about it, well hidden at the same time. Not because it is held under non-disclosure-agreement, not because it is patent or copyright owned, but because no one wants to acknowledge it. [...]

Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 03 EMC, and to an extent VMware, think they are in trouble. Why else would Greene be kicked to the curb? I have refrained from comment in this blog about Greene until now. This has been a decision based on perspective, meaning that, since I have not been a CEO of [...]

Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 04 This article is a milestone for a couple of reasons. First, a Proper Virtual World as a blog has been around for year or so. Although popular to a reasonable and rational extent, there have been several high notes, where specific articles have been extremely popular, threatened, hated, if not [...]

Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 02 My dachshund, well Dachshunds, I have two actually, one is quite old, 17 and wise, in dachshund terms, where the other is younger, but not a puppy, 11 years old, and even smarter. At times I think either of them has more common sense than most strategic theorists in the [...]

Virtualization Critical Evaluation - Chapter 01 This article will be a bit different.  How so?  Well, that is both easy to explain and hard to illustrate.  The year 2008 is effectively just past half over.  This is significant, because thoughts about the near future of virtualization come to mind, and how I will communicate to my [...]

Virtualization? What The Heck Is That? - Chapter 06 VMware does an interesting thing. It mixes alpha and beta code with general release code. Alpha? Yes, alpha because what VMware calls beta code at times is not what I would call beta code. However, the definitions come later, so bare with me. This inclusion of experimental [...]

Virtualization, Fine, Well Sort of? - Chapter 14 Gartner commented that every thing will change in 2008 in reference to virtualization? Well duhe. Guess the old crystal ball needs new batteries? But to be honest and fail, Gartner was right, in concept, but not in subject. Everything is changing in virtualization, it has every single year [...]

Know What Virtualization Is, But What Is Next? - Chapter 13 Of course your virtual machines do not each pizza? Well mine do. I know, I am sure, some of you believe that I hang around the cold vaults, sniffing the ozone that comes off transformers, the power supply type, not the robotic type. There a [...]

Know What Virtualization Is, But What Is Next? - Chapter 12 About 2 years ago, or a bit more, I was sitting at a small table in my favorite local Thai restaurant, eating my favorite Thai dish, green curry chicken, delivered hotter than heck, in fact, hot as Godzilla’s breath? But I digress. We were actually [...]