Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Off to Microsoft Tech-Ed EMEA 2008
Posted by on October 31, 2008
I’m on my way to Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona on Sunday, I’ll try and post some details of the interesting content as I go, but incase I don’t carry my laptop round with me all the time I’ve installed the Twitterberry client on my trusty BB Pearl and will be posting “tweets” [...]
Windows Azure under the hood
Posted by on October 30, 2008
There is a an excellent video interview with Manuvir Das from the Azure team on the MSDN Channel 9 site here. The interview is quite long, but I’ve tried to summarise it for infrastructure people/architects like me as follows; Azure is an overall “OS” for the cloud, akin to VMWare and their VDC initiative [...]
Microsoft Moves into the Clouds
Posted by on October 28, 2008
As you’ve probably seen and I mentioned here earlier Microsoft are laying out their vision for Microsoft-centric cloud computing this week at their Professional Developers Conference. If you’re short of time to understand this there is a good quick overview here, here and here, apologies for lack of posting recently which has been due [...]
Windows OS Code Patching
Posted by on October 22, 2008
Interesting article here from the ntdebug blog on how hotfixes get integrated into the windows code-base and update mechanism. There have been some excellent posts recently on this blog offering detailed insight into the internals of Windows, if you’re interested in this kind of thing (like me) and general innards of Microsoft I’d also [...]
Cloud Computing Stack – formalised
Posted by on October 15, 2008
Sam Johnston has an interesting article here where he’s attempted to formalise the cloud computing stack into something like the OSI model and has an associated wiki for contributions. I’ve not come across Sam’s blog before before but a quick review shows that Sam has some interesting architectural discussions around cloud computing – check [...]
Cloud Wars: VMWare vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon Clouds
Posted by on October 1, 2008
A short time ago in a data centre, far far away….. All the big players are setting out their cloud pitches, Microsoft are set to make some big announcements at their Professional Developer Conference at the end of October and VMWare made their VDC-OS announcements at VMWorld a couple of weeks ago, Google have [...]
Workstation VMs loose network connectivity
Posted by on October 1, 2008
I’ve had a problem recently with VM Workstation on my laptop, both with previous beta versions and the current RTM build. My Windows XP Virtual machine that I use to run Outlook via Unity (and indeed all VM’s on my laptop) loose network connectivity via the host occasionally, this seems to affect VM’s configured [...]
