The end of day 3 of VMWorld 2010 inspired an excited interview with FalconStor CSO Jim McNiel. SiliconAngle's John Furrier along with Dave Vellante ask Jim McNiel his thoughts on a number of topics ranging from speed, to virtualization of the desktop, to white space and data protection.
"The VMWare momentum is just unbelievable, almost 50% growth, it is the place to be...the other is the cloud service providers, that is a very clear trend." Dave Vellante drew attention to Wikibon and SiliconAngle discussions on the premise that "these cloud service providers are gonna be ahead. They are probably going to maintain that lead. Why? Because they are in business, there for a profit, and they're better at doing transactions and operationalizing IT."
John Furrier continues the conversation by touching on another need that seems to have arisen for the consumer, that of speed. John addresses McNiel "The same kinda themes always come up; agility, speed, performance, ease of use, value to the user, but now it's a different world....to me the key theme that I heard over and over again is speed, speed, speed. Everything, everywhere, anytime seems to be the cloud, key endpoint for messaging."
To which Jim McNiel responds "Speed is great. But, if you don't manage it, if you can't look at how its gonna be accomplished, it becomes really difficult."
Dave Vellante added to the conversation by saying, "simpler is faster, I think that's one thing that Google has shown us."
When asked about his take on the movement caused by the show in general, which Jim talks about his belief that there will be a "reality check", as he puts it, in reference to the abundance of applications that are operating in the cloud. Also broaching the subject of business continuity, disaster recovery and how that is a viable business model people are making money on today. With the knowledge that customers need to move critical data into a safe place, Jim completes his thought on the matter on a reassuring note, "I think that's gonna continue" adding, "It's not the iron mountain anymore, it's the iron cloud."
JIm McNiel brought up the trend of repetition such as how going centralized to decentralized and back to centralized again is paving the way to moving clients into the cloud to keep costs down.
Dave asks John Furrier and Jim McNiel their perspectives on what VMWare is calling end user computing, where the user is "not even using the 'desktop' term anymore"
John expressed his feelings on Zimbra calling them "the Gmail wannabe for the enterprise" and later adding "I don't think they have that much traction."
Although following Dave's question on the subject he adds that he "likes the trend of what they are talking about", in terms of virtualization of the desktop, being a major force, proven by the number of people using windows 7.
Jim points out that the distraction is when an individual user has to back up their own system and/or launch and load their own programs. He addresses a solution on the matter in this way, "When you have the ability to deploy desktops from the cloud on an on demand basis that are customized and configured for specific uses and do it at a very cost effective level. Which is less that what ordinary laptop or desktop would cost, it's a very compelling story."
They go on to discuss VDI about which John Furrier had this to say, "I am convinced that it is not hype. I just don't yet know what the level of growth will be, I don't have enough data."
The end of the interview brought to light an important question, that of how to get data out of a cloud once it is there.
Jim makes a good point and gives us a taste of humor by saying "A lot of these clouds are going to become like Hotel California, you can check out, but you can never leave." continuing, "it is incumbent upon all of these cloud providers to be able to move data...That's the white space."
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The end of day 3 of VMWorld 2010 inspired an excited interview with FalconStor CSO Jim McNiel. SiliconAngle's John Furrier along with Dave Vellante ask Jim McNiel his thoughts on a number of topics ranging from speed, to virtualization of the desktop, to white space and data protection.
"The VMWare momentum is just unbelievable, almost 50% growth, it is the place to be...the other is the cloud service providers, that is a very clear trend." Dave Vellante drew attention to Wikibon and SiliconAngle discussions on the premise that "these cloud service providers are gonna be ahead. They are probably going to maintain that lead. Why? Because they are in business, there for a profit, and they're better at doing transactions and operationalizing IT."
John Furrier continues the conversation by touching on another need that seems to have arisen for the consumer, that of speed. John addresses McNiel "The same kinda themes always come up; agility, speed, performance, ease of use, value to the user, but now it's a different world....to me the key theme that I heard over and over again is speed, speed, speed. Everything, everywhere, anytime seems to be the cloud, key endpoint for messaging."
To which Jim McNiel responds "Speed is great. But, if you don't manage it, if you can't look at how its gonna be accomplished, it becomes really difficult."
Dave Vellante added to the conversation by saying, "simpler is faster, I think that's one thing that Google has shown us."
When asked about his take on the movement caused by the show in general, which Jim talks about his belief that there will be a "reality check", as he puts it, in reference to the abundance of applications that are operating in the cloud. Also broaching the subject of business continuity, disaster recovery and how that is a viable business model people are making money on today. With the knowledge that customers need to move critical data into a safe place, Jim completes his thought on the matter on a reassuring note, "I think that's gonna continue" adding, "It's not the iron mountain anymore, it's the iron cloud."
JIm McNiel brought up the trend of repetition such as how going centralized to decentralized and back to centralized again is paving the way to moving clients into the cloud to keep costs down.
Dave asks John Furrier and Jim McNiel their perspectives on what VMWare is calling end user computing, where the user is "not even using the 'desktop' term anymore"
John expressed his feelings on Zimbra calling them "the Gmail wannabe for the enterprise" and later adding "I don't think they have that much traction."
Although following Dave's question on the subject he adds that he "likes the trend of what they are talking about", in terms of virtualization of the desktop, being a major force, proven by the number of people using windows 7.
Jim points out that the distraction is when an individual user has to back up their own system and/or launch and load their own programs. He addresses a solution on the matter in this way, "When you have the ability to deploy desktops from the cloud on an on demand basis that are customized and configured for specific uses and do it at a very cost effective level. Which is less that what ordinary laptop or desktop would cost, it's a very compelling story."
They go on to discuss VDI about which John Furrier had this to say, "I am convinced that it is not hype. I just don't yet know what the level of growth will be, I don't have enough data."
The end of the interview brought to light an important question, that of how to get data out of a cloud once it is there.
Jim makes a good point and gives us a taste of humor by saying "A lot of these clouds are going to become like Hotel California, you can check out, but you can never leave." continuing, "it is incumbent upon all of these cloud providers to be able to move data...That's the white space."
