Rachel ran the Infrastructure Computing for the Enterprise (ICE) practice and oversees all research on enterprise infrastructure software, from hypervisors, operating systems and file systems through provisioning and automation layers to application development, performance monitoring and lifecycle management. She was also a contributor to the CloudScape practice and a frequent and sought-after speaker on virtualization and cloud topics.
Rachel led the infrastructure software practice for 451 Research since its debut in April 2000. She pioneered coverage on SOA, distributed application management, utility computing and open source software. She focused on datacenter automation and server, desktop and application virtualization.
Rachel began covering the technology sector in 1995, when she helped launch Computer Week, later PC Week Australia, for Australian Provincial Newspapers. She also worked as Deputy Editor of the award-winning Managing Information Systems (MIS) Magazine for the Strategic Publishing Group.
The company aims to provide cloud and data management for complex virtual and physical enterprise application environments. It got its break by building virtual 'landscapes' to underpin SAP deployments, and its technology has expanded from there.
ScienceLogic's service management views display service levels, health, availability and risk no matter where the resources in question happen to reside.
As Windows Azure Infrastructure Services spin up, demand for Microsoft's cloud offerings – already growing fast – have increased. Microsoft's Global Foundation Services must build facilities to underpin them all. We toured its Columbia facility.
After months of speculation about its future, BMC Software has agreed to sell itself for $6.9bn to a group of PE firms led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital.
Building on its well-regarded WorkSpace platform, the British invader can now display usage intelligence within Configuration Manager. That should help administrators be smarter about how they use licenses, and how they migrate.
OpenStack has grown and evolved. That was the clear takeaway from a packed Summit in Portland, Oregon, at which startlingly candid enterprise users of the cloud-enabling platform compared notes on what works and what has to be fixed.
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