Turbo Talk

Our CEO Shmuel Kliger will be a panelist at CloudConnect (March 15-18 in Santa Clara) where he’ll be participating in a discussion on Cloud Economics and new pricing models, moderated by Cloud Economics guru and AT&T VP Joe Weinman.

Here’s the description of the panel from the CloudConnect site:

Cloud ROI just entered a new phase with the introduction of spot pricing.  But wait; there’s more!  This panel of leaders will address cloud pricing and market system evolution and what it will mean for ROI.  Buyer’s councils, intercloud economics, new cloud resource allocation systems that use bidding and auctions to determine resources to invoke will all be part of this emerging cloudscape.

If you’re planning on attending, stop by and say hello.

Shmuel would love to chat with you, especially if you are a long suffering Jets or Mets fan!

Granted, we  have another day or so until 2010, but I thought it was still a good time to list the  most popular VMTurbo blog posts in 2009.

Here we go…

1. Bridging the Virtualization Management Gaps by our CEO Shmuel Kliger
2. Where is the virtual I/O bottleneck?
3. Can theory shed light on workload consolidation?

Thanks to everyone who has supported us in 2009 and our best wishes to you and your families in 2010!

It’s that time of year again!  Our friends at Aprigo surveyed various IT management experts (including our CEO, Shmuel Kliger) to come up with a set of 2010 IT Management Predictions.  Take a look (below) and feel free to share a prediction of your own.  We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks for your interest in VMTurbo and for reading our inaugural blog post.  We plan to use this space as a forum to share our thoughts on the IT and virtualization management space, and generate some discussion as well.

If you want to keep tabs on us, we have an RSS feed for the blog.  We also are on Twitter as @vmturbo and should be ramping up activity there soon.  You can expect at least a few blog posts a week and a few tweets here and there, too.

Our first official post will be made later this week by our co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Yechiam Yemini (YY).  YY will be addressing the question: Is there a need to monitor virtualized IT?

In the meantime, here is some traffic from the blogosphere to whet your appetite:

• Randy Bias took a shot at predicting revenues for Amazon’s Web Services business.
• My former VMware co-worker turned Cisco UCS guru Steve Chambers questioned the wisdom of private cloud builders.
• Brian Madden went deep on an analysis of VMware’s new client hypervisor.
• Blogging the competitors to death and the recent EMC / Oracle tussle (courtesy of Dan Kuznetsky)