Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at
6:46 pm
By Robert L. Scheier Users don’t much care about all the hops an application goes through from server to disk to external cloud to private cloud — they just want stuff to happen quickly. That’s why ExtraHop counts something like 60 competitors in the application performance management space. The 100-person startup, co-founded by alumnus of [...]
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at
9:36 am
I’m a big fan of content marketing – writing content geared to the needs of a specific audience. Content marketing gives the prospect the information they need when they need it (win for the customer) while nurturing prospects along until they’re ready to make a purchase (win for the vendor). More and more smart companies [...]
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 at
12:39 pm
VMware continued its march up-market last week with the release of three new product suites that put it into direct competition with mainline management vendors such as BMC and even smaller enterprise vendors. The enhancements to its vCenter Operations suite, and the new VMware vFabric Application Management and VMware IT Business Management suites, seek to [...]
Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at
12:55 pm
(One reason I’ve been off-line lately is a busy travel schedule, including to Guadalajara, Mexico, in my role as editor of the Global Delivery Report. Thought you’d be interested in some of the sights and sounds…) From the 22nd floor of the Presidente Guadalajara hotel, I heard the loud popping of explosions. Not to worry; [...]
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at
3:55 pm
Where’s Bob? For those of you kind enough to notice, I’ve been off-line for several months under a happy barrage of corporate marketing work, along with some travel to Guadalajara, Mexico (interviewing a cloud consultant, left) as part of an ongoing IT outsourcing project. Much of my work has involved deep dives into cloud computing, [...]
