Cisco’s Springpath Acquisition Will further Boost Its EMA Top 3 Winning Hyperconverged Portfolio
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Springpath for $320 Million
By Torsten Volk on Aug 21, 2017 10:12:51 AM
VMworld 2017 – Prologue
By Torsten Volk on Aug 18, 2017 4:18:34 PM
“Oh, I’m not coming to VMworld this year, we are at Jenkins instead.” This is a sentence I’ve heard quite a few times now from vendors that I’m used to seeing at VMworld and it makes me wonder what’s going on.
EMA Top 3 Product Selection Process
By Torsten Volk on Jun 16, 2017 5:14:24 PM
The EMA Top 3 Report: Ten Priorities for Hybrid Cloud, Containers, and DevOps in 2017
By Torsten Volk on Jun 15, 2017 4:34:31 PM
HPE Project New Stack – It’s a “Free Play”
By Torsten Volk on Jun 8, 2017 1:32:07 PM
At its Discover event this week, HPE announced its own multi cloud management platform: HPE Project New Stack.
Dell EMC World – The Easy Button for Digital Transformation
By Torsten Volk on May 15, 2017 8:44:12 AM
“It feels like magic but it is technology,” and “we will help transform every company into a software company,” were the two quotes by Michael Dell that best summed up the spirit of Dell EMC World 2017. These statements show the genuine excitement of a seasoned tech executive to attack the next challenge of his career: merging the Dell EMC brands -Pivotal, VMware, RSA, SecureWorks, and Virtustream- into one highly differentiated IT powerhouse.
Full Stack Container Monitoring – A Whole New Animal
By Torsten Volk on Apr 19, 2017 11:52:20 PM
Traditional IT infrastructure monitoring focuses on hypervisor hosts, storage and VMs. Application impact is tracked through vSphere resource tagging. This simple and mostly static drilldown approach to full-stack monitoring no longer works for modern microservices based computing.
InterConnect 2017 – Showing off a whole New IBM
By Torsten Volk on Mar 24, 2017 10:31:12 AM
"Today, a dev team leveraging Kubernetes containers can get a cloud app up in minutes." This statement by Arvind Krishna, IBM’s GM for Hybrid Cloud, at the beginning of his InterConnect 2017 keynote should have received a lot more recognition than it did. This one sentence shows the fundamental shift in IBM’s strategy, away from the old Tivoli-centric IT ops company and toward a modern DevOps-focused organization that is looking for differentiation up the stack. Today’s IBM encourages developers to deploy entire application environments without IT administrators even being aware.