In a recent post by Jason Hiner on zdnet, Hiner examines the keynote at EMC World in Orlando by CEO Joe Tucci. Here’s an overview of the virtual data center and cloud computing from “The Next Big Things in IT” according to EMC, with some BlueLock commentary.
Virtual Data center:
EMC believes in the future all servers will be virtualized servers – whether in the cloud or in a private virtual data center. This is highly likely, although it’s going to be a long process. While EMC believes 80 percent of workloads will remain in private corporate data centers, that doesn’t leave the cloud entirely out of the mix.
Our VP of Sales and Marketing here at BlueLock talks a lot about the fact that people are going to become more knowledgeable about what data and workloads should go where – which will entail choosing different clouds for different purposes. Some of those clouds will be internal and others will be external. Good IT executives will do what makes the most business sense with their data and operations. The economy is driving executives to make these decisions now we just have to enable them with the right technology.
Cloud Computing:
EMC is right, “cloud computing means different things to almost everyone who talks about it.” When EMC talks about the cloud they’re referring to the backend infrastructure that runs the applications, but I love the definition they provide in regards to where they think cloud is going:
“…a future in which cloud computing represents the service providers’ data centers – completely virtualized and available to serve a variety of specialized applications on-demand. It sees cloud computing data centers connected to private data centers via VMware so that virtualized server workloads can go back and forth between the two.”
Yep, we totally agree. That’s what we’ve been experiencing (hint: Marian College video and case study). BlueLock’s fully virtualized data center is a prime example of how this can work. We build a “packaged data center” called the BlueLock Box that works as a mini private cloud for our clients, and use VMware to allow the BlueLock Box to talk to our BlueLock Cloud when clients need spillover or want to exchange workloads. It’s the perfect solution for companies who want at least some of their stuff on premise. In the future you’ll see a lot more of this with more clouds talking to each other and more options for clients. They have their test-dev in Amazon, production at BlueLock and in-house data at their on-premise virtual data center. It’s all about leveraging technology to make the most out of IT dollars.
Virtual Data center:
EMC believes in the future all servers will be virtualized servers – whether in the cloud or in a private virtual data center. This is highly likely, although it’s going to be a long process. While EMC believes 80 percent of workloads will remain in private corporate data centers, that doesn’t leave the cloud entirely out of the mix.
Our VP of Sales and Marketing here at BlueLock talks a lot about the fact that people are going to become more knowledgeable about what data and workloads should go where – which will entail choosing different clouds for different purposes. Some of those clouds will be internal and others will be external. Good IT executives will do what makes the most business sense with their data and operations. The economy is driving executives to make these decisions now we just have to enable them with the right technology.
Cloud Computing:
EMC is right, “cloud computing means different things to almost everyone who talks about it.” When EMC talks about the cloud they’re referring to the backend infrastructure that runs the applications, but I love the definition they provide in regards to where they think cloud is going:
“…a future in which cloud computing represents the service providers’ data centers – completely virtualized and available to serve a variety of specialized applications on-demand. It sees cloud computing data centers connected to private data centers via VMware so that virtualized server workloads can go back and forth between the two.”
Yep, we totally agree. That’s what we’ve been experiencing (hint: Marian College video and case study). BlueLock’s fully virtualized data center is a prime example of how this can work. We build a “packaged data center” called the BlueLock Box that works as a mini private cloud for our clients, and use VMware to allow the BlueLock Box to talk to our BlueLock Cloud when clients need spillover or want to exchange workloads. It’s the perfect solution for companies who want at least some of their stuff on premise. In the future you’ll see a lot more of this with more clouds talking to each other and more options for clients. They have their test-dev in Amazon, production at BlueLock and in-house data at their on-premise virtual data center. It’s all about leveraging technology to make the most out of IT dollars.
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