Last week I came across an interesting blog post from Mark Thiele. The idea of the article is that, as virtualization becomes a relevant cost for IT, it becomes a target for savings. I tried to engage with Mark on twitter but discussing a matter like this in 140 chars becomes a bit frustrating. . . . → Read More: Virtualization Costs, Virtualization Advantages and the Case for Multi-Hypervisors
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This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog. This topic is (rightly so) coming up a lot lately with the Service Providers (SPs) I am working with so I thought I’d share some high level . . . → Read More: vCD Custom Portals and Backend Integrations in a Service Provider Environment A few weeks ago Adrian Cockcroft (Cloud Architect @ Netflix) wrote another very interesting post on his blog. Adrian warms up the discussion sharing his experience about the reasons for which you may want to use public cloud services. While there are a lot of people (including myself) sometimes advocating about these concepts, . . . → Read More: Amazon, Netflix, Standard Cloud APIs and the Inevitable Lock-in My old vCloud Director Networking for Dummies post is still going strong according to my blog statistics. I believe this is an indicator that people are looking for more information about this topic so I thought I’d give it a little bit more color and create a few real life examples on how . . . → Read More: vCloud Director 1.0.1: Networking Samples We have known this for years but it’s only when you get a slap on your face that you understand what’s going on for real: the GHz metric is useless these days. I was experimenting with vCloud Director the other day and I was checking out from the catalog my Turnkey Linux Core . . . → Read More: The Cloud and the Sunset of the GHz-based CPU Metric A few days ago we had a big election day in Italy for renewing a good part of the public local administration. For and in itself this wasn’t a big deal and something that wouldn’t have generated a lot of attention among the 60M people living here. However, without getting into a lot . . . → Read More: The Italian Elections and the Case for Cloudburst An entire Amazon AWS Region was recently down for four days. Everyone has got to blog something about it and this is my attempt. Just as a warning: this post may be highly controversial. There has been a litany of tweets pontificating how applications on AWS should be deployed in a . . . → Read More: TCP-clouds, UDP-clouds, “design for fail” and AWS A few days ago I was in a very interesting meeting with a big Service Provider in Europe and I heard a lot of interesting comments. I’d like to quote the best that I heard which was “Oh a portal? Oh not another one… we have many of them already!” but this will . . . → Read More: The 93.000 Firewall Rules Problem and Why Cloud is Not Just Orchestration The way VMware is packaging / positioning vShield technologies isn’t clear to everyone. This shouldn’t be surprising since we have been lately expanding the offering with a lot of new stuff. In this post I am going (to try) to make a sense of vShield, its importance and specifically how it relates to . . . → Read More: vShield products packaging explained (with a focus on vCloud Director) A few days ago I have received an email from an IBM Business Partner I used to work with during my previous life. They are (admittedly) a small partner working primarily with local Italian SMB customers and they are (or I should say were) in the business of reselling hardware, software and integrate . . . → Read More: vCloud, the Morphing Channel Behavior and Neural Circuits |
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