VMworld 2014, the Cloud and the Future of Enterprise IT
September 9, 2014
Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.
Last week I visited VMworld 2014, where a horde of steely-eyed virtualization acolytes swarmed into the din of an expo floor, creating an atmosphere redolent of a religious revival being held in a Vegas casino. Vendor booths filled Moscone Center’s South Hall to bursting, ranging from enormous displays presented by longtime technology stalwarts such as HP and IBM down to a multitude of tiny booths displaying products from new market entrants…
All came to pay fealty to the industry’s dominant virtualization player and claim their place in the VMware firmament. The outpouring of energy (and money) made the show floor something like a natural wonder akin to the Niagara Falls – overwhelming, awe-inspiring and vastly entertaining…
However, in terms of learning, I found much more food for thought at a 451 Group event I attended, where Peter Ffoulkes presented a summary of the results from the firm’s 451 Research Cloud Computing Wave 7 study, along with commentary discussing the implications of the survey. It’s fair to say that the survey pool represents the apotheosis of enterprise IT – large, mainstream companies with significant internal IT organizations…
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