John asks me my opinion of when you should and shouldn’t virtualize, which launches me off into a long soliloquy on the topic. The primary suggestion is for IT departments to focus on operation efficiencies over anything else: vendors are going to figure out how to make the same amount, if not more, money, so cost savings will be temporary from that front - don’t fall into Moore’s Law fantasy on that front. The real benefits have to come from people saving time and being more effective.
Having attended the IBM zSummit analyst event, I give a short update on how IBM is talking about it’s cloud engagements. John and I still agree that IBM needs a cloud product, but from my perspective they’ve improved greatly since the “don’t call it a come-back, I’ve been here for years”messaging at Pulse.
Finally, I give my brief take on PacketTrap’s newly released Perspective product: what I call a “general IT Management Platform,” something that monitors and manages anything with an IP address, including applications and middleware.
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