Greg O'Connor

The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications to any cloud, appzero took a market-setting step forward today with the release of zapp cloud migration. This technology extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any cloud, without re-engineering, change, or lock-in. Applications packaged by zapp can be copied and run on any cloud or data center server with the ease of an enterprise app store. This capability is well suited to hybrid/federated cloud scenarios in which enterprise workloads are moved on premise or to clouds in response to business requirements. For use cases that call for ease of application on-boarding with no further planned movement, appzero also offers a dissolve function. Upon deployment, dissolve removes the appzero packaging, installing the application to the OS. Requiring no... (more)

appzero to Demonstrate New zapp Application Migration Automation

Media Alert: appzero to demonstrate new zapp application migration automation in IBM's Cloud Zone Partner Pavilion at Impact show, Las Vegas April 29th through May 2nd What: appzero will be demonstrating its newly announced zapp migration at Impact 2012. The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications to any cloud, zapp automatically extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any cloud, without re-engineering, change, or lock-in. The demonstration will show how zapp automation slashes the bulk of manual labor... (more)

Compare / Contrast MS Server App-V and appzero

Webinar: Compare/contrast MS Server App-V and appzero What: Greg O'Connor, appzero's CEO, will be joined by CTO Giovanni Boschi in a webinar focused on moving Windows server production applications to any cloud or datacenter server. The discussion will take a use-case approach to compare and contrast appzero capabilities with those of Microsoft Server App-V. Why: Movement of Windows server applications within a private cloud or to a public cloud, (especially Azure) was among the topics covered atMicrosoft's recent Management Summit 2012. Extending its App-V desktop product to Win... (more)

In the Cloud the App Is Free, But That Bucket of Nuts Will Cost You

This week my kids and a bucket of nuts acted out a good allegory for enterprise IT and user cloud provisioning - a cautionary tale. It started with a call from our bank letting us know that our credit card was under suspicion of fraud. Apparently, $134.26 worth of iTunes store activity had been charged to our account in the past 24 hours. The bank had correctly guessed that these purchases were news to us, with ‘us' being the adults in the house. And, if not news to each one of the five kids we call ‘ours,' it was also nothing any of them felt like claiming. One family meeting d... (more)

Migrating to the Cloud: Managed Providers Quest for Uniformity

One of my favorite jobs was working in corporate development and looking at companies to acquire back at Progress Software. We had a couple hundred million in the bank, low single digit organic growth, margins expanding from 20% by 2 or 3% per year, and had gotten addicted to buying top line revenue to "juice" our top line. Corporate development got to go shopping for acquisitions, meeting with tons of small to medium sized companies to find the next one that met our model and fit our strategy. We called the activity around this shopping "kissing frogs" and "turning over rocks."... (more)