DISCLAIMER: This is long and the opinions are mine.
I’ve written a good bit here about the various ways Microsoft and Citrix
overlap in the hypervisor space, ranging from topics like shared code base
through competition for the desktop space. To me, these two players have
always been the underdogs battling for the right to go head-to-head against
VMware in the main enterprise (and now cloud) virtual data center event.
I’ve long said here that I think Microsoft is in the best position to make
that move, but to be honest, Citrix currently has better technology. In other
words, Microsoft has a better strategic play, Citrix a better tactical
play. The announcements that came of out Synergy last week prove that.
Citrix knows what it’s doing and they know how to build virtual... (more)
One of the oft discussed business challenges of cloud-based application
deployments – or any remote app deployment where a service has to
communicate over the public internet – is latency. It takes more time to
fetch data when a request has to leave the LAN, and latency is usually
variable and at the mercy of both the Interwebs and the cloud provider. This
isn’t so much of an issue when ... (more)
After pushing my latest post, Securing the Cloud: Shared Hardware and the
Data Plane, Hoff posted a series of excellent questions and responses to the
post via Twitter. I thought responding via another blog post, so that his
questions could be addressed alongside my last post, was the way to go.
I’ve trimmed some of his questions here for brevity but all of his
questions can be found on ... (more)
I’ve spent the past day reviewing all that’s floating around the
Interwebs on the Azure announcements from the WPC this week. There are
definitely a lot of nice nuggets to digest and stuff that’s going to take a
while to process. Most of the Azure talk at WPC has been, as expected, about
how partners can benefit from and build solutions on top of Azure. That’s a
compelling message and on... (more)
I am the king of starting blog posts with “I know, it’s been a
while…” So I’ll dispense with that intro here and get right to the
goods.
I’ve been traveling a fair amount lately, speaking on the impact
virtualization has on your applications, and talking to customers about their
current virtualization issues. As you know I typically talk about the virtual
platforms: hypervisors, resourc... (more)
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