Phil Dewey

Cambrian Cloud Explosions Coming

or... the hardware becomes a comoditized compute bedrock of low cost servers and switches rented from a datacenter in central Texas and the software now demands the lions share of Capex as it does what you just described.

Will Virtualization Undermine Network Equipment Vendors?

Comparing VOIP's impact on the network to Virtualization is not valid. VOIP put new, real time stresses on the network. Virtualization removes them from the LAN and puts them potentially on the WAN. The idea that there will be a valid use case for moving a VM across a wide distance is goofy (much less a running VM). Data will move the, VMs will stay where they are. Taking advantage of cheaper compute resources elsewhere will mean getting a COPY of a VM to materialize at the lowest cost facility and the data there to use it.
One won't move a VM but rather a description of it, a formula of how to construct it and the data it needs to do it's job.

Chrysler Bankruptcy: Why Car Buyers Might Not Notice

I really hope someone picks up the Chrysler SRT unit. Those cars are some of the best in the US.

The Tipping Point for Network Automation

What this means of course is that automation at the network layer is done before it gets started as the cloud provider will do that with his labor costs baked into the price of a VM. The next big thing will be automating the care an feeding of a vast sea of VMs. Fortunately the technology lends itself to this. It will be the small virtual data center and data center automation vendors who take the day here.

It’s Still the Economy, Silicon Valley

Guess you haven't been there in a while. They expanded it to include a geek fest for script kiddies. The music part starts next week.

How to Not Pay the AIG Bonuses

The thinking is they need these people to unravel the CDOs they created that caused this mess in the first place. So why not bonus them on doing that? The faster the do it the more they make.

Cloud Wars Are on the Horizon

Greg, who do you think will be the acquired in this process?

Long-Term Charts of the Financial Sector

There are two sides to every story. For instance, look how much and how quickly it rose from 95 on...

Jeffrey Saut: Hedging Positions in Unprecedented Times

@gca1 - It was actually Phil Grahmm the Republican from Texas that drove the stake through the heart of the Glass-Stegall act.

Chambers Is Right: The Recession Will Drive Tech Innovation

If it's not obvious now it soon will be, managing a large, rapidly growing, heterogeneous, dynamic IT infrastructure is not possible. Period. Cisco has spent decades and millions trying to build intelligent network management, putting more "intelligence" into the network, yada, yada, yada. It won't work. Ever. This is why Cloud Computing will emerge as the only cost effective solution for what the marketing folks are calling "Infrastructure 2.0".

Is AT&T to Blame for 3G's Performance in the iPhone?

I've had the EXACT same experience as @htc_user. Great reception in the EU (Denmark and Amsterdam) with an HTC phone. I'll retry this experiment next month in Italy.

The Coming Cloud Computing Dogfight: Google vs. Microsoft

This misinformed article proves the gross misunderstanding of Cloud Computing at this stage of it's development! The battle is not goog vs msft it's goog vs amazon. msft is well behind (once again) while goog has missed the boat in terms of understanding what cloud developers really want and need. My bet is on Amazon to walk away with this one until the likes of IBM and HP enter the market with more polished versions of the cloud.

Parsing Paulson: The Fannie and Freddie Bailout

"One of the rules of capitalism is to punish the foolish, incompetent and crooked."

Not anymore. Now we make them President...

Cisco's Warrior Takes Center Stage: 5 Themes to Expect

Maybe John should talk about how he's going to raise share holder value. If the next 8 years are like the last 8 years he'll be taking an early retirement.

The End of the Line for the Busch Family

Hensley & Co...