Focus on Architecture First Before Moving to the Cloud

“The point of enterprise architecture is to look beyond the silos and create a blueprint for the business’ big-picture strategy.” Read more.

These guys are cool in the cloud

I just published a blog from the web site talking about a speaking op they gave at Cloud Expo NYC. Other Meshians might find it interesting, particularly if you have customer-facing roles. The blog links to the Cloud Expo presentation which was video taped.

Blog: http://www.servicemesh.com/posts/searching-for-the-big-win/
External link to the video: http://downloads.sys-con.com/download/wc_cc11e_servicemesh

VMware price war

Folks, as some of you probably know by now, VMware changed its pricing structure for vSphere 5 earlier this week. Whether a given customer is affected or not, this would be a good time to highlight the fact that ServiceMesh Agility Platform can help customers create contestability to in turn help isolate them from some of these changes. The cloud market (whatever that means) has a lot of evolution to go through and more of these shocks are certainly going to happen in the future. Agility Platform customers, while not totally immune to anything, will certainly be able to weather the storms better than those who bought into all-VMware or all-any-other-large-vendor solutions.

I just drafted a blog to describe some of the strategic thinking here and highlight this. Feel free to call your customer's attention to this:
http://www.servicemesh.com/posts/word-of-the-day-contestability

7 Self-Inflicted Wounds Of Cloud Computing

Don't let poor planning and half-hearted decisions doom your promising cloud projects.

By Charles Babcock InformationWeek
July 06, 2011 01:30 PM

Anthony Skipper at ServiceMesh assembled a comprehensive list of the common holes in companies' approach to cloud computing for his presentation at Cloud Expo in New York in June.
Skipper is VP of infrastructure and security at ServiceMesh, a supplier of IT service management and lifecycle governance. His presentation was titled, "Cloud Scar Tissue: Real World Implementation Lessons Learned From Early Adopters." It was also cited by cloud blogger Andrew Chapman.
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