voke Market Mover Blog

In my last post I asked for your opinions on virtual and cloud-based labs.   Thank you so much for letting us know what you think of virtual and cloud-based labs! On August 21, 2014 voke officially published its Market Snapshot TM Report: Virtual and Cloud-based Labs. The full report is available here  or at www.vokeinc.com to subscribers. While virtual and cloud-based lab technology has been widely available since 2005, we still see development and test teams wait for protracted periods of time to gain access to the physical environments needed. From our research, we now know that on average, teams wait for 18 days to gain access to the required physical environments needed for development or testing. And, these teams that wait to access physical environments also have restrictions on environment access time. This type of lost productivity is easily remedied with virtual or cloud-based labs. The full report contains an abundance of data to help ma...

Is It Virtual Or Real? The big news today was the Citrix acquisition of open source virtualization company XenSource . I have commented many times in the past year about the future I think virtualization has and how it will be one of the defining technologies of the 21st century. So, here is my philosophy on the acquisition….one if you are inclined to be a geek and another if you fancy yourself more of a business person. Either way, the net / net of this is virtualization is real and coming to an enterprise near you. Citrix Acquisition of XenSource for Geeks Citrix’ acquisition of XenSource to more effectively compete with VMware is a positive move for the market. This acquisition shows that the criticality of the virtualization market is understood and enterprises are focused on using the technology in multiple aspects of their business. Virtualization delivers a malleable environment unconstrained by barriers. VMware has been diligent at delivering virtualization to the entire en...