Recently I wrote about advanced simplicity. This is the idea that a great software product hides complexity from its users behind a simple interface. As an illustration, I’d like to discuss a piece of software that exposes lots of complexity, then examine how it would be easier to use if the user interface were different. As my example, …
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As the business relationship between Citrix and Microsoft continues to flourish, it raises the question of whether the two will eventually tie the knot. Rumors of an acquisition have circulated on and off througout Citrix’s entire history, but could 2017 be the year that it finally happens?
My esteemed colleague and friend, Tom Howarth, published a post titled, “AWS AND VMWARE NOW FRIENDS, BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO VCLOUD AIR” and I would like to take the opportunity to present an alternate possibility and viewpoint as to what might happen to vCloud Air. I would like to start with a paragraph from Tom’s post and work my way from there.
There has definitely been a trend for simplification in IT infrastructure startups for a while. We have seen a whole lot of simplification in how IT infrastructure is managed. We have also seen a trend for infrastructure products that are easy to deploy. Is easy to deploy a good thing? Does easy deployment lead to …
It is that time of the year where the conference season has ended and a good number of companies are entering into a new fiscal year and as such it might be a good time to look back over the year and get some insight into what the year 2017 might have in store for the Information Technology industry and the engineers that support it.
When we were first introduced to Docker containers, we were told that they should be ephemeral and stateless. It turns out that there are lot of great uses for Docker containers that are either stateful or long-lived. The stateful part is leading to a bunch of startups that have storage products to deliver persistent storage to these …
