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Software Defined Software: The History of “Software Defined”

Posted by Dave Asprey in Cloud Apr 4th, 2013 | No Comments
“Software defined” is the latest buzzword in IT and cloud. Some people hate it because marketers are jumping on ”software defined” almost as fast as they jumped on the word “cloud” years before they had real cloud products. Cloudwashing was a real phenomenon, and it was easy to say. “Software Defined Washing” just doesn’t roll off the tongue the same way, and it implies IP-enabled virtual laundry. Here is an explanation of why you should embrace the term (I like it even more than cloud) and a view what we called it before “software defined” became in vogue. In vogue it is.... read more

What does the Oracle at Delphi say about IaaS cloud offerings?

Posted by Jonathan Gershater in Cloud Dec 17th, 2012 | No Comments
Referencing Wikipedia: The Pythia , commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi, was the priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The Pythia was widely credited for her prophecies inspired by Apollo. Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) first user conference in November 2012 was over-subscribed and sold out. Given that the company offers all the infrastructure you need (and then some) in a public cloud: Linux and Windows instances, databases, storage, elastic load balancers, messaging…. it has become apparent that Infrastructure as a Service... read more

It Gets Cloudy at Dell World

Posted by Dave Asprey in Cloud Dec 13th, 2012 | 2 Comments
Dell World this week was huge. In addition to turning up the cloud strategy to full volume, Dell had Bill Clinton as a guest speaker. Very worthwhile conference, especially the Dell World Social Think Tank: IT Innovation, where I joined about 10 senior cloud thought leaders and another dozen execs from Dell for an invitation-only discussion about the future of innovation in IT. (Hint: it’s all about the cloud and mobile). Check out the highlights here. This post is full of some juicy details because Dell provided some time with Kevin Jones, Dell’s VP & GM of Infrastructure and Cloud Computing... read more

A Bright Future for VDI

Posted by Dave Asprey in Virtualization Dec 11th, 2012 | No Comments
VDI has come a long way since its origins in 2005 and 2006. When I ran strategic planning for a large virtualization vendor in 2006, analysts declared it to be “the year of VDI.” However, for several years after, it seemed that large scale deployments were always just out of reach for most enterprises because of performance and scale issues. All that has changed. VDI is finally happening at scale across a variety of industries. The early adopters selected VDI because they were concerned about data security. The early VDI solutions originally had a higher operational cost than running desktops.... read more

Hot from VMworld: Why Security Teams Like VDI

Posted by Dave Asprey in Cloud, Virtualization, VMware Oct 10th, 2012 | No Comments
A few months ago I wrote about how the VDI had crossed the tipping point—thanks to significant performance improvements brought on by the pervasiveness of broadband and exponential improvements of new cloud-based technologies. The new widespread use of tablets and smartphones in the workplace added fuel to the fire.  In particular, I mentioned the use of VDI to help solve the BYOD issue. VMware covered these solutions at length at VMworld San Francisco as part of VMware’s Mobile Secure Desktop initiative. Now, as Trend Micro joins to VMware again in Barcelona, we’re seeing this same kind... read more

Beyond Perimeter Defense to Data-Centric Security

Posted by Christine Drake in Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Consumerization of IT, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud, VMware Oct 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment
Traditionally businesses have focused their IT security on perimeter defense—blocking threats before they enter the network. This protection is still important.  But with today’s cloud computing, mobile devices, and advanced persistent threats (APTs), businesses need security that protects their data wherever it travels and in whatever type of device it resides, requiring new data-centric security.  Earlier this week, Trend Micro held its annual insight event for the analyst community and announced our new vision on data-centric security (see video clips of the event here and here).  Back... read more

Agentless Security Gets an “A” on Its Report Card

Posted by Christine Drake in Cloud, DataCenter, Deep Security, private cloud, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Virtualization, VMware Aug 30th, 2011 | Comments Off
In my last blog post, I discussed some of the benefits of agentless security for virtual and private cloud servers. Today at VMworld, Harish Agastya, Director of Data Center Security at Trend Micro, conducted a presentation on Agentless Security for VMware Environments (listed on the Trend Micro VMworld page). Trend Micro released agentless antivirus in Deep Security at last year’s VMworld and has seen impressive results over the last year.  With such success, today Trend Micro announced an extension of its agentless security with new agentless file integrity monitoring (FIM) in Deep Security... read more

Open Source Clouds Become Enterprise-Grade: Citrix and OpenStack

Posted by Dave Asprey in Citrix, Cloud, Cloud-based Security, cloudbursting, Deep Security, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, PaaS, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Virtualization, VMware May 25th, 2011 | Comments Off
Today at Synergy, Citrix announced “Project Olympus,” effectively making open source clouds a more viable option for enterprises. In the past, it was cloud providers like Rackspace who tended to focus on open source cloud infrastructure, while enterprises tended to make more conservative choices where support contracts were available. The new support from Citrix, along with about 60 other supporting commercial hardware and software vendors, should go a long way towards helping enterprises see OpenStack as an enterprise-grade choice of cloud infrastructure. Enterprises can now get a Citrix-certified... read more

Write Once, Run Any Cloud

Posted by Justin Foster in Secure Data Centers May 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Java, and other languages, gave us platform independence long ago. Application writers could ignore the underlying operating system (to a large extent) and focus on the work at hand. While this reduced the need for OS and architecture-specific code, the underlying operating system still required a lot of care and feeding. Recently, Platform as a Service took over management of the underlying operating system and infrastructure, but early PaaS offerings required moving your application and data out to a service provider and risking lock-in. Last month VMware announced a partnership with Salesforce.com... read more