Wayne Pauley

• Blogs
  May 21, 2013

  VMware-as-a-Service-Provider with Colo CLoud

  VMWare just announced more details on their hybrid cloud strategy. I have to say I’m still a little surprised by all of it. On the technical front – I like it. From a business standpoint I’m still trying to figure out how this fits into a software company’s strategy. 

• Blogs
  May 21, 2013

  Dell Pivots in the Cloud

  Dell just announced that they are discontinuing their owned and managed public cloud strategy that was based on OpenStack. I was kind of surprised when the announcement was released. I also found the release timing a bit interesting – after all VMWare is just getting rolling with their public clouds and now Dell seems to be getting out. 

• News
  May 20, 2013

  Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds - Network World
• Blogs
  May 14, 2013

  My Take on EMCWorld 2013

  This year EMCWorld was a little earlier in the month of May than usual. This was better logistically for me and I’m sure many others. It doesn’t muddle up Memorial Day like it has in the past, plus the weather was spectacular – at least at night when we had time to go outside and enjoy the town a little. That said, EMCWorld was as exhausting as ever with too many people to see, keynotes to listen to, demos, videos, dinners, etc.

• Blogs
  Apr 26, 2013

  My thoughts on the 2013 OpenStack Summit in Portland

  WOW! 3,000 people in the main events (users) and a full on analyst day with exclusive time with Keynotes, founders, and key partners. Rackspace also had a private analyst dinner where we sat and chatted with the key cloud people and founders of OpenStack from Rackspace. My biggest impression: This is real, it’s serious, and there are a lot of BIG players putting a lot behind it.

• News
  Apr 24, 2013

  Expert video: Cloud strategies evolving - TechTarget
• Blogs
  Apr 17, 2013

  Video Blog: What's the Big Deal with IT-as-a-Service?

  This video blog highlights some of the possibilities when a company make the transformation to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS).

• Blogs
  Apr 16, 2013

  OpenStack Analyst Day 4/15/2013 - Portland, Oregon

  Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier started off the day talking about the impressive changes in interest and contributions to the OpenStack software. Just quarter over quarter stats from Q4’12 to Q1’13 when they went from 148 member companies to 189 and 175 developers to 252. Also just this past week Juniper and Erikson joined as Gold members with Juniper’s code seeing adoption already through their partnership with CloudScaling. Jonathan and Mark presented their strategic vision that includes three focuses for the OpenStack platform ecosystem – tech, users, and innovation.

• Blogs
  Apr 15, 2013

  Are you Open to Alternative Approaches to Private Clouds?

  One of the phenomena in the cloud world that has gotten a lot of press is the OpenStack project which is a free open source software set managed by the OpenStack Foundation. A few years ago most traditional manufacturers were all trying to find ways to extend their existing portfolios into the cloud. Some felt that private cloud was a great strategy. From their perspective – why not just convert all that great investment on the floor by converting it from being virtualized to cloud. To me this means making it self-service, on-demand, including a fee-for-use cost model, available to any endpoint, and able to scale elastically as needed.

• News
  Apr 12, 2013

  Vistara Recognized As An Emerging Cloud Service Management Vendor By Enterprise Strategy Group - HostReview
• Blogs
  Apr 10, 2013

  Video Blog: Implementing Private and Hybrid Clouds with Cloud Service Management

  In this video blog I discuss some of the highlights from the cloud service management market summary report to help IT begin to convert a virtualized data center to a private or hybrid cloud service.

• Blogs
  Apr 8, 2013

  Video Blog: 2013 Cloud Spending Intentions

   ESG recently surveyed 540 IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America and Western Europe to find out what their public cloud spending intentions for 2013 were. In this video blog I review some of the highlights of our findings.

• Blogs
  Apr 8, 2013

  Peer1 plus Tier3 = Mission-critical Cloud

  Last week I was out in Santa Clara at the Cloud Connect Conference. On top of enjoying the weather and getting to meet up with some old friends, I also got to spend time chatting with some great companies. One of these was Pier1, which is a growing cloud service provider.

• Blogs
  Apr 3, 2013

  “Distributed” Clouds for the Channel

  One of the cool things ESG has is a channel development team that provides insights and guidance to the  companies we work with when they  want to find new ways to engage partners or just bounce ideas for new programs off of us.  Since my interests lie mostly in all things cloud –working with my colleague Kevin Rhone I’ve become more and more aware of how much the cloud is also disrupting the channel. Partners are trying to find new ways to leverage the cloud while not losing business to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). I’ve talked to a number of CSPs who are also trying to find ways to leverage different types of partners  to create a channel of their own so that they can extend their reach (e.g. promote their brand, multiply their sales force and implementation expertise).

• market summary reports
  Mar 29, 2013

  Cloud Service Management Software: Enabling IT’s Transformation to Cloud Service Provider

  Today’s CIO is constantly challenged to keep up with not only the changes in technology, but also the changes that are affecting the business as a whole. Current global business dynamics are characterized by hyper-speed changes in the business climate that in turn require companies to be increasingly agile and efficient. These traits aren’t always in line with the standard annual budgeting process and are especially incongruent to the fixed resources that IT has available.

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