Edge processing seems to be the new hotness. Combined with the Internet of Things (IoT), edge processing is a vision of smart devices reporting data to local compute resources where real-time reaction and control occurs. There may be local analytics—possibly with artificial intelligence (AI), to hit all the buzzwords—to provide local control of something and …
Alastair Cooke is an independent analyst and consultant working with virtualization and datacenter technologies. Alastair spent eight years delivering training for HP and VMware as well as providing implementation services for their technologies. Alastair is able to create a storied communication that helps partners and customers understand complex technologies. Alastair is known in the VMware community for contributions to the vBrownBag podcast and for the AutoLab, which automates the deployment of a nested vSphere training lab.
Multi-Hypervisor Hyperconverged with Maxta
Product progression is always interesting to see. In particular, I like to see products that grew up around one platform developing into adjacent platforms. Early hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products usually only supported one hypervisor—most commonly, vSphere, as VMware dominated data center virtualization. But vSphere isn’t the only hypervisor in town, and recently, we have seen …
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Ravello Systems Returns to the Light
In May, I attended the first Ravello Systems Blogger Day in Redwood City, San Francisco. It was a great day of catching up with my friends at Ravello and talking to the other bloggers invited to the event. I did quite a bit of work with Ravello when it was a small startup with developers …
Industrial IoT at HPE Discover
When we talk about Internet of Things (IoT), it is often in the context of the latest consumer device with a useless web service, like the IoT toothbrush or garden rake. These things make the news because they are relatable and a bit funny. What doesn’t make the news so much is real IoT, the …
The New Oracle Cloud, Public Cloud for Enterprises
Over the last few years, we have seen Oracle go from being a cloud denier to proclaiming itself the largest cloud company (by some measure or other). I had not been exposed to the Oracle cloud message until very recently, so I was cynical about what I heard. One challenge is that Oracle is known …
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AWS Is the Ultimate Department of No
I find it very interesting that in-house IT is seen as “the department of ‘no’” and that AWS is considered the easy place to build things. I suspect that this points to a mismatch between what an IT department thinks is important and what its internal customers think is important. I think that AWS is …