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Guy Chapman

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Senior Engineer, Virtualisaiton & Storage, SunGard

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Senior engineer for virtualisation in SunGard Financial Systems.

WEB: Blog

July 29, 2011

Guy Chapman and 13 other people answered this question

POLL: What is the one piece of info you think more startups should emphasize on their websites?

Credible real-world use cases and scenarios, backed by ROI calculations from end users if possible.

April 18, 2011

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What is the highest price you'd pay for gas before switching to alternate modes of transportation?

I believe most people in Europe do have private cars, even if they use public transport for all or some of their commute. Car-free households are in a minority even in Netherlands. The cost of road fuel does not seem to have reduced demand for ... more

March 16, 2011

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Are enterprise customers using Microsoft Forefront? If so, how widely (servers? desktops only?)

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Threat Management

Jan. 10, 2011

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Top Cloud Computing Thought Leaders and Influencers to Track in 2011?

Funnily enough Simon recently posted his top ten influencers, and they are definitely *not* the usual suspects! Read and ponder: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2011/01/my-top-10-influential-thinkers-in-cloud.html more

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Leaders

Dec. 17, 2010

Guy Chapman and 16 other people answered this question

Cloud Computing Trends: What are the top cloud computing trends to track in 2011?

Some good points above, and actually the core point is that whatever happens will be about cost transparency and clarity; I see some potential for better metrics here, and also in other places where I'm working with fellow end users I find an increasing push ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Solutions

Nov. 21, 2010

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Email Deliverability Best Practices: What are your 3 tips for successful email deliverability?

Andrew, yes, exactly that. The point at issue is more about the framing of the original question and the whole concept of why there would ever be any problem getting mail delivered. I know of no company of any size that has a problem getting ... more

General Management

Email Deliverability

Nov. 20, 2010

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Do you see the notion of a 'Zero Client' becoming widespread?

I see it making steady progress in the arena traditionally occupied by thin clients but I don't see thin clients increasing their footprint by very much outside the area of task users. Centralised compute resource is more expensive than distributed at this point so in ... more

Information Technology

Application Virtualization

Focus Interactive Summit

Nov. 20, 2010

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What are the top trade shows to attend to learn more about data management and business analytics?

I don't know the answer to your question but I do recommend finding out where http://www.greenplum.com are exhibiting since their solution is very strong. more

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Business Analytics

Business Intelligence

Data Management

Nov. 20, 2010

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Are you seeing a trend away from FC to Ethernet for storage for VDI?

Definitely. In fact, the trend is to ethernet generally in virtualisation; with 10Gb now mainstream the major problem (bandwidth) is solved and the issue of latency is not really significant outside of critical apps. Even for critical apps I have a suspicion that FCoE will ... more

Information Technology

Application Virtualization

Focus Interactive Summit

Nov. 18, 2010

Guy Chapman and 2 other people answered this question

How green is cloud computing?

Cloud is not intrinsically green, some cloud providers such as http://www.memset.com are genuinely trying to be green, whereas others are simply greenwashing the energy savings you get from consolidation. more

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Costs

Cloud Computing Regulations

Nov. 18, 2010

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What are the best hosting providers?

I have to say that I don't think we have good language yet to describe the difference between virtual hosting / cloud providers. I would be more likely to go to people I trust and who are passionate about what they do, like http://www.memset.com than ... more

Ecommerce Web Solutions

Ecommerce Website Design

Nov. 18, 2010

Guy Chapman and 3 other people answered this question

Cloud computing

I would not put an app with sensitive information into the cloud unless it generated a measurable cost improvement over DIY, but including all the associated costs of the business continuity plan and so on. We provide a service in this area, the Infinity Process ... more

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Cloud Computing

Nov. 18, 2010

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How do I build a supporting infrastructure to ensure success of my BI program?

I have a sneaking suspicion that EMC just answered that for you: http://www.greenplum.com/ ;-)

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Implementation

Nov. 17, 2010

Guy Chapman and 2 other people answered this question

Is CMDB still relevant with virtualization?

Absolutely. In fact, in a world of service oriented IT, you actually stand some hope of building and maintaining a functional CMDB. Windows patches are much more of an issue IMO. more

Information Technology

Servers and Storage

Nov. 14, 2010

Guy Chapman and 1 other person answered this question

How do I assess the total cost of putting a physical server into the Cloud?

David, that is one of the most pertinent questions around. I think we currently lack the language to properly frame discussions around competing offers in cloud; all the vendors make basically the same claim for uptime but clearly there is a difference between services in ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Migration to Cloud

Nov. 14, 2010

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Do we need a common standard for web browsers?

This has echoes of the Browser Wars of the mid 90s. Ultimately there are two competing strands at work here: the drive to common standards so that stuff "just works" and the drive to differentiation so that you can deliver new and cooler stuff (oh, ... more

Information Technology

Nov. 14, 2010

Guy Chapman and 3 other people answered this question

what is cloud computing?

Ask ten practitioners for the definition of cloud and you'll get eleven different answers! There is no one settled definition and it doesn't help that every vendor with a product in the virtualization space is pitching it as a cloud product.
I like the NIST definition: ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Servers and Storage

Nov. 14, 2010

Guy Chapman and 7 other people answered this question

How do you start formulating a virtualization strategy?

As a practitioner in this space I endorse Michael's point.
Thinking of it as a "virtualization strategy" is, in my view, the wrong way round: it's an answer looking for a question. I would start with a review of your estate, your lifecycle management, monitoring ... more

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Servers and Storage

Virtualization Benefits

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