Posts by Doogie Howser MD

Nuvolat?

I'm really not sure about the name. Sounds like something you rub on for a touch of lumbago!

Now is the time to buy shares in Equinix, I think!

Outage Stats

It's probably worth making the distinction between O365 and Azure - O365 seems to be on it's arse more often than not, but to the best of my knowledge, Azure has been pretty sound.

I know they're all shoved under the marketing umbrella of "Microsoft Cloud" but they're very different beasts, really.

Start of an ASR competitor?

Azure has ASR for migration and DR of on prem workloads, is this the start of AWS's response I wonder?

Ha!

Given Hodge's chequered past, I don't put any weight in anything she says. Yes we know Government can't run IT projects for toffee, nothing new there. I just don't like the hectoring from a failed public servant.

Elliott

Are asset strippers of the worst kind.

He should be jailed for his laughably bad grammar alone!

Irony

I love the irony that Oracle's conference is called "OpenWorld" when they're one of the most proprietary companies on the planet.

Token Oracle gag - do you have to pay a delegate fee for every seat you *could* have sat in at the keynote?

Skewed Priorities

Judging from most banking IT horror stories, rather than pissing about with smartphone apps, HSBC should be sinking cash into making their back office and transactional systems something a little more modern and less breakable.

Then again, that's not very sexy, is it?

Too little too late

vCA is still pretty much a dead dodo. The world has moved on and (certainly in terms of public cloud), VMware hasn't kept pace. vCA has niche use cases such as DRaaS, but even now there are far more cost effective and elegant solutions such as Azure Site Recovery.

Best VMware stick to what they're good at, and leave "real" cloud to the big three, and I say this as a dyed in the wool VMware guy of many years standing.

Hot Chips?

Makes me think of the Profanisaurus - "Like a dog eating hot chips"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=like%20a%20dog%20eating%20hot%20chips

Rug Pullers

The timing of this is slightly fortuitous - I was only talking to a customer about RemoteApp last week. I never really liked it a whole lot, but to have it pulled so quickly really makes you stop and think about how you make decisions when you're using public cloud.

Basically, always have a fire exit to jump somewhere else at short notice.

So just like spot instances then?

Or am I missing something? Cheap but expendable. Bit like Katie Price I guess.

Truth

Another fine article Trev, good work. I'm inclined to agree with your viewpoint, and I've felt this way for a while. Other than NSX and VSAN, VMware has pretty much been in a holding pattern for quite a while. For someone who cut their industry teeth on Novell products, I'm starting to get a touch of deja vu.

No company in tech is too big to fail (not even Apple, given enough time) and I wonder if maybe there was a touch of arrogance at the top of the company a few years back that's contributed to the current state. Obviously revenues are still good, but once people think of their tech as "old hat", then it's only downhill from there.

I've pivoted from VMware and Hyper-V to public cloud - whether you like it or not, those are the skills you'll need for the foreseeable future if you want to get the mortgage paid off a bit quicker.

Project Magic Pocket

Now if they'd called it Project Wizard's Sleeve, that would have been cool...

Slope Stars?

Didn't Clarkson get in trouble for some similar remark?

Plus needed for NSX

Actually it's a little bit crafty they say you need Ent+ before you can deploy NSX. This is because you need Distributed Switches and NSX sits on top of them.

I've never really understood why core networking functionality like VDSes were pushed into the top licence and agree that NSX should be part of a core bundle, but at the end of the day it's VMware's new money spinner so they have to bleed it dry with early adopters before making it more competitive for the great unwashed.

Good work, though I'm curious

Decent article there, Trev. My curiosity was piqued however by the following comment:-

"If you ask about things like self-service or API-driven workload management they'll lose their minds all over social media"

If I didn't know better, I'd say it sounds like a company that may or may not rhyme with Buttflanix.

The brain drain continues

I know he says he'll still have some input, but moving from his VMware position to one at a VC seems a bit strange to me.

I found his attitude and presentations quite refreshing, he seemed genuinely engaged in NFV and NSX is a very good product. Shame VMware seem intent on keeping most gigs to themselves and not sharing the love with accredited partners, but that's another gripe entirely...

Sophisticated

Funny how all of these data breaches are done by using "sophisticated" techniques, thus drawing attention away from the usually shite data security mechanisms.

In my experience, the bigger the company, the shiter the security.

Never really worked out..

Why lycra cycling tops are so bloody expensive. They cost like 50p to make!!

Are Elliott trying to single handedly destroy the IT industry?

Hopefully things will ratchet down a bit now..

Now that Duncan has taken the wheel, here's hoping we can park the attack dogs and recognise that there is room in the storage market for lots of vendors, not just two high profile ones throwing grenades at each other.

Location, location, location

Here's hoping they send him to hostels in Essex and Sussex.

With that lisp it'll be comedy gold.

Re Silverlight

Oh, please tell Sky to stop using Silver Shite for Sky Go as well.

Thanks.