Upon2020 (archive)
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VMWare, Identity and User-Centricity in the Enterprise
Lots of good commentary on VMWare’s new Horizon App Manager today, which is what their Tricipher acquisition seems to have turned into. The phrase that struck me the most — thus this post — was Krishnan‘s description at CloudAve: a user-centric management service for accessing cloud applications from any device. It clearly is user-centric: it…
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There Is No Multi-Tenant Architecture: There Are Three!
I’ve heard the term “multi-tenancy” hurled at somebody as an attack about once too often now. Could we at least agree that there are several different kinds (I count three) of multi-tenancy, and they have different tradeoffs? 1. Application-level Multi-Tenancy Salesforge, Gmail, and most SaaS businesses come to mind: they run all of their customers…
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InfoQ: Interview: VMware Cloud System CTO Explains Cloud Foundry Architecture and Strategy
InfoQ: Interview: VMware Cloud System CTO Explains Cloud Foundry Architecture and Strategy.
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Fort business and cloud semantics « ejecteject
Dan Young on Twitter: .@davidlinthicum @jamesurquhart @beaker debate is not false; merely a by-product of industrial era business hangover http://wp.me/pLN1x-ch Referring to: Fort business and cloud semantics « ejecteject.
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Interview with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby
Worthwhile InformationWeek interview. Choice quotes: InformationWeek: Citrix CEO Mark Templeton described four power centers that seem to be emerging in the cloud: Amazon/Xen, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack. Do you agree with that assessment, and would you modify it in any way? Crosby: I think it’s right. .. VMware’s opportunity is to displace Microsoft, BMC,…