AppZero Session at Cloud Expo
Busy, busy month for those of you keeping score, and I don't mean the final
gold medal count.
But, now that I've nodded to the Olympics, congratulations to both team
Canada and team USA on the best hockey game I've ever seen.
Ever. And I'm from Boston, home of the sometimes brilliant Bruins.
Greg O'Connor at the AppZero Booth at Cloud Expo 2009 West, Santa Clara
Convention Center in Silicon Valley.
No, the game I've been watching is a tectonic shift of cloud ecosystem money
move toward application mobility:
Makara - funded by Shasta Ventures, Sierra Ventures, as well as the
market-moving Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz -- threw back the cloak of
stealth. (Makara Leverages Virtualization to Simplify Cloud Application
Management) According to the release, "Makara provides easy on-boarding to
the cloud. With Makara's Cloud Application Pl... (more)
I've always found that the obvious things in life are easy to understand once
you see them. I've got a good one for you.
Question: If an ISV can bring install time close to zero, their proof of
concept (POC) efforts will:
Take less time Become predictable and repeatable Go more smoothly in the eyes
of the potential customer Provide more time for actually working with the
customer and proving the concept Look impressive compared to competitors who
need to send SEs on site for hours and days of sweating through glitch-filled
installation and configurations Increase the likelihood o... (more)
VMware Virtualization on Ulitzer
VMWare's purchase of SpringSource came as quite a shock to many in the
industry. Why? Because, with this purchase, the Gorilla of Virtualization
jumped from below the OS right smack up into application development and the
runtime stack. Now they can deliver a Platform as a Service (Paas) for
everyone under the sun .... or, as is more likely, the cloud.
At first glance, you might wonder why VMware would make this move into the
application development space: What synergy is there between the below the OS
infrastructure and application infrastructu... (more)
Virtual Application Appliances on Ulitzer
Cloud Computing Expo - So are we talking tomayto/tomahto or apple/orange
here? Actually, when we compare VMware's virtual appliance (VA) approach
with AppZero's virtual application appliance (VAA) it's really a lot more
like apple/orangutan. Not better and worse, winner and loser, but different
in type and kind and purpose and optimal use. A tectonic shift.
Before I proceed to explain, I'd like to point out that I'm on record as
being a VMware fan. (See earlier blogs, "VMware's Genius," "The birth of
virtualization" and "The Next Big ... (more)
VAA on Ulitzer
We've all been there. Minding our own business in a local establishment,
when a discussion's heat rises to the level of a sporting bet. Sides are
chosen, money plunked down, combatants await the reveal. Other than adult
beverages, the thing these bets seem to have in common is that the winning
fact generally runs against commonly held assumptions.
Here's a winner for you:
Q: What company "invented" virtualization technology?
A: The long defunct Burroughs Corporation first brought mainframe
virtualization to market in the 1960s. But it was not until the then ... (more)
Greg O'Connor is President & CEO of AppZero. Pioneering the Virtual Application Appliance approach to simplifying application-lifecycle management, he is responsible for translating Appzero's vision into strategic business objectives and financial results.
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