Phil Dewey

Virtualization: Expect Technology to Cross the Chasm Within Two Years

More idiotic blather from a wanna be Cisco acquisition. Motion is a small part of the issue. Sprawl is THE issue. Think 10000 servers are a challenge to manage? 1000 switches and routers got you swimming in log data? Try wrangling 80000 VMs on the same network. Current tools have not even scratched the surface of being able to handle how this much stuff gets managed. The VLAN is not the problem, the stuff riding on it is going the be a Tsunami...

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.