Big Data Is More Than Hadoop Many people today associate big data with Hadoop analytics – and, to be sure, Hadoop is an important technology for this. However, just as the Linux operating system is so much more than just the Linux kernel, a big data environment is so much more than just a Hadoop […]
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ManageIQ Acquisition Updates
January 22, 2013 
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No tenet for this particular post. But, if you’re interested in learning more about Red Hat’s recent acquisition of ManageIQ and how ManageIQ relates to Red Hat’s Open Hybrid Cloud portfolio including CloudForms, RHEV, and OpenStack, check out: My blog post for redhat.com Our press releases on the acquisition and closing Our webcast on ManageIQ, featuring […]
Read moreThe 2nd Tenet of Hybrid Clouds: Hybrid is About Portability
December 5, 2012 0 Comments
Hybrid is About Heterogenous Technologies I previously posted that the 1st Tenet of Hybrid Clouds is that Hybrid is About Heterogenous Technologies. In other words, in a hybrid environment, you must be able to manage and work across different types of infrastructure and environments. And, this is a critical problem for enterprises because they already […]
Read moreThe 1st Tenet of Hybrid Clouds: Hybrid is About Heterogenous Technologies
November 6, 2012 1 Comment
The World is Going Hybrid According to a recent Gartner survey, about half of data center managers believe they’ll be using hybrid clouds—a mix of private and public clouds—by 2015. That’s an impressive number given how new private clouds still are across enterprises. What, then, are important considerations for implementing a hybrid cloud? Most people […]
Read moreThe 2nd Tenet of Evaluating Cloud Products: You Have to Know What Problem You Want To Solve
June 6, 2012 2 Comments
A Swirl of Cloud Confusion People will often ask me, how does cloud product X compare to cloud product Y? Often, it will be because X is a third party product and Y is a Red Hat product. The problem with such comparisons is that in the realm of cloud, there aren’t single, well-defined product […]
Read moreThe 2nd Tenet of PaaS: The P in PaaS Stands for Platform, Not Product
May 9, 2012 1 Comment
PaaS, PaaS Everywhere Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a hot space right now. There seems to be a new PaaS provider popping up every minute. Gartner projects the PaaS space will reach $1.8 billion in 2015, and their projections are conservative compared with several other analysts’. Visit the variety of PaaS offerings available, and […]
Read moreThe 3rd Tenet of Hybrid Clouds: Enterprises and Cloud Providers are Opposite Sides of the Same Coin
March 9, 2012 0 Comments
Offer The Same Technology Everywhere? I recently briefed an analyst on Red Hat CloudForms, a product for enterprises to build and manage hybrid clouds. This analyst pressed me on my assertion that we were targeting enterprise customers with CloudForms: were we also planning to sell CloudForms to cloud service providers? Many other vendors had both enterprise […]
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