Wave goodbye to the Adobe Creative Suite. On Monday at its MAX conference, Adobe announced that it’ll abandon updates to perpetual licensing for CS and push all its chips behind its Creative Cloud applications. Creative[…]
Making sense of the software-defined data center
Software-defined data center (SDDC) is the latest buzzword in our industry. SDDC is the phrase used to refer to a data center in which all infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service. Management[…]
The SHI Cloud: What’s next
I guess I’ve been in a contemplative mood lately, reflecting on the lessons learned during our first year of offering the SHI Cloud. In remembering one of the most fast-paced years in the history[…]
Lessons learned from a year in the SHI Cloud: The business model and transformative ease-of-use
If you’ve been watching this space over the past few weeks, you know that my past two blog posts have been part of a series of posts dedicated to reflecting on the first[…]
Metrics to measure the success of the cloud: A report from VMworld 2012
Although we were happy to see Michael Dell and Paul Maritz in attendance at VMworld 2012 (the latter receiving a “standing-O” after his Tuesday afternoon lunchtime address), we’ll leave the reporting on their activities to the bigger[…]
VMware’s Tod Nielsen unveils a new era in IT
A few weeks ago, at our National Sales Conference in New Jersey, VMware Co-President Tod Nielsen delivered a keynote address to our employees. For those that have not yet had the chance to witness a[…]
Lessons learned from a year in the SHI Cloud: Keeping it simple and paying attention to the details
In my last post, I talked about how networking from the bottom up helped us reach success when we built the SHI Cloud. In the second part of our “Lessons Learned” series, I want[…]