After the end of a year, we often pause and reflect to celebrate our successes and to try and gain closure for our failures and tragedies. For many, 2016 has been a horrible year. I am not going to talk about politics, as that is far too contentious, but the world seems a little darker today than …
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Cost to Build a New Virtualized Data Center, Part 2a
In part one of Cost to Build a New Virtualized Data Center, we discussed the basic software costs for a virtualized data center based on VMware vSphere 6.0, Citrix XenServer 6.5, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 and 2016, and Red Hat. If you missed that, please click here to review before continuing. This post will take …
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My Thoughts on 2016
My thoughts on 2016. We are quickly coming up to the end of 2015 and this is the time that we, the analysts, like to make our predictions for what is in store in the upcoming year of 2016. First, let me start with one of the biggest announcements and surprises of 2015 which was the Dell acquisition of EMC. This acquisition is expected to close sometime in mid-2016 and I want to see the deal close before I shed all my skepticism that this deal will come to completion. I understand that it is pretty much a done deal, but nothing is truly finished until the final signature is added. So, keeping up with the status of this acquisition is one of the things at the top of my list of things to watch in 2016.
2016: Citrix vs. VMware
Citrix vs. VMware: Looking back over the past year, we see that 2015 brought numerous unexpected twists and turns for both Citrix and VMware, and each excelled in different ways. No one expected VMware to be acquired by Dell, nor was the disruption by Elliott Management foreseen on the Citrix calendar of events. The full impact …