Posts by Steve Todd

In a recent post I described how the Adaptivity and ADM toolsets can be used to classify enterprise applications and devise a strategy for modernization, enhancement, or application decommisioning (which…

One of the EMC acquisitions that flew under the radar in 2013 was Adaptivity. Consider an example of business applications running on top of a traditional (e.g. 2nd platform) IT…

I recently finished writing a series of articles discussing next-generation applications and the new models of IT infrastructure that are often required to support them. My focus was primarily on…

In a recent post I wrote about mobile connectivity and the need for a robust object storage layer in a data center architecture. This allows thousands of global users to…

Over the last few posts I've highlighted some of the building blocks for building a new form of IT infrastructure, often referred to as the 3rd platform. One of the…

Over the last several weeks I've been establishing a foundational set of building blocks for a new form of IT infrastructure. This infrastructure is well-suited to run new forms of…

In a recent post I introduced one of the biggest problems that companies in the industry (like VMware) are trying to solve: mapping application workloads onto a next-generation IT infrastructure.…

VMware's algorithms have always done a great job with application placement onto a set of servers. It uses an API to ask about the server hardware, capabilities (e.g. CPU, memory),…