Posts tagged Virtualization
Most Cloud Compute cycles will be HPC
May 17th
A few months ago, I was chatting with a friend on the phone about HPC when he made the statement which is the title of this post. I jotted it down, and it’s been rattling around in my brain ever since. At first it seemed very odd, HPC is a neiche market, a small proportion [...]
Gorilla Clouds?
May 4th
In Geoffrey Moore’s books (Crossing the Chasm, Gorilla Game, etc) the gorilla is the market-share leader whose position is sustained by proprietary technology that has high switching costs (Wikipedia says so!!). I’ve always said “owns the architecture” and “costs too much to change vendors” – with Cisco being one example, Intel another and Microsoft being the [...]
Cisco’s Flip Flop
Apr 13th
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the heading for this post. As you will find out during the course of this contest, I dearly love words, their meanings, and how they intermingle and create alternate meanings. I’m a textbook polysemaniac. But enough of that. If you follow the blogosphere, you will have noticed that Cisco recently announced [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 5 – High Performance Computing
Apr 30th
Now we’ve come to the earliest stage of market adoption, the Innovators. We have also come to the most interesting of computing classes, supercomputing, also commonly referred to as High Performance Computing (HPC). That HPC is the most interesting class of computing, is my perspective only, as are all these posts. If you find my [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 4 – Embedded Processors
Apr 29th
By now a trend is appearing – I’m working my way back through the technology adoption lifecycle. In the new year I was reading some blog posts and vendor literature on virtual machines in embedded computing. It was this reading that got me thinking about different value propositions of virtual machines in different computing classes [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 2 – Compute Servers
Apr 28th
In the first post of this series, we looked at the technology adoption life cycle, seven value propositions for market adoption of virtualization, five classes of computing and the maturity of virtualization in mainframe computers. Over the last several years, virtual machines have seen major adoption in the commodity compute server market. I think it [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 1
Apr 27th
This is a reworking of some thoughts on virtualization technology originally posted on my personal blog. I’m breaking it into parts so that I can elaborate a little more on each aspect. The success of any technology depends on many factors and it is helpful to reference a technology by it’s adoption in the market. [...]
Virtualization, beyond the hype…
Apr 22nd
My award winning team has been recognized for their work previously in virtualization, server consolidation, and use of open source Linux for over a decade now in the enterprise. We are implementing the next wave of this journey with virtualized servers and storage across the entire data center, these are our observations so far
