Patterns that Connect: AI, Management, Metaverse, Quantum, Philosophy, and Physics

 A highly opinionated "Thought Piece" from the Front Lines of Virtualization Disclaimer: I work for Dell Services and am the chief architect for the Dell vCloud, a public cloud offering for customers of PerotSystems (which was recently acquired by Dell). I co-architected it with two others while reporting to CTO David Crofford some time ago. After the acquisition, we retrofitted VMware vCloud on top of our ESX-based platform. In this blog, I present my personal opinion and my opinion is not affiliated with Dell's official position. Ah, 2011. This is the year of Spotify. Steve Jobs stepped down from Apple. Everyone and their CIO are talking about “cloud” like it was some new deity descending from the heavens to solve all infrastructure sins. In boardrooms, in cafés, in airless conference rooms at VMworld, one name kept coming up.  VMware vCloud Director . The chosen one. The future of private clouds. The piece de resistance of VMware’s virtualized vision. And yet, here I...

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie passed away  on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70.  He was found dead at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone.  Ritchie had been in frail health for several years prior to his death, following treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease. His passing came just a week after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, which overshadowed the news of Ritchie's death in the media.  I shared the below eulogy during our C/C++ Meetup in Dallas, Texas, yesterday evening! ------------------------------>>> We gather today to honor a true pioneer, a quiet revolutionary whose work fundamentally shaped the digital world we inhabit. Dennis Ritchie - dmr, as he was known to many - was not just a programmer or a computer scientist; he was an architect of the modern technological age, a creator whose vision continues to ripple through every keystroke, every compilation, every system call we make today. When I first held...