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The Four Don’ts of a VMware Exit
The industry is full of advice on things you should do when considering a VMware alternative, but did you know there are four don’ts of a VMware exit? Accepting a vendor’s excuse for why you must do these “don’ts” can lead to higher costs, unsuccessful…
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The Total Cost of Replacing a SAN
Storage vendors force you to replace your storage system every four to five years, so understanding the total cost of SAN replacement is critical for IT professionals to learn. After all, replacing a SAN (storage area network) or NAS (network attached storage) has more expenses…
CIOs seek to reduce or halt cloud spending per Venture Beat
According to a new study from Wanclouds, 81% of IT leaders say their C-suite has directed them to reduce or take no additional cloud spending as costs skyrocket… Read the article
The $1 Trillion Question
Public Cloud… Costs $1 Trillion in Market Cap Sarah Wang and Martin Casado of Andreeson-Horowitz assert that cloud spend is reducing enterprise values of tech companies by a trillion dollar. Some excerpts… There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant…
Q2 2022 is VergeIO’s most productive quarter ever
We just finished our best quarter in VergeIO‘s history. Our VP of Sales Chris Lehman led the team to this fantastic outcome. Our KPI’s show that we have a repeatable, and scalable sales process. Our final few deals of the quarter had record low sales…
The value of knowing your Cloud Unit Cost Economics
When I was CEO of Online Tech (now Otava) we did a lot of unit cost economics on every service we sold. Each service had it’s own SKU. We had a few 100 of them. So, there was a SKU for a cloud server. There was a…
Getting Relief from Open Stack Complexity
I read that there are 21 million cores running Open Stack clouds. That’s a lot of workloads. Lately we’ve been hearing that IT leaders are struggling to find Open Stack (and other) cloud engineers. The complexity of deploying, sizing and maintaining an OpenStack environment often…
Plan B for VMWare
Everyone needs a Plan B One of the reasons I continue to love the technology industry so much is that it never stands still. For a long-time fan of Charles Handy, it definitely follows his mantra of good companies requiring constant product evolution, even if…