Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Could Skynet be a Cloud Application, and Should I be Scared?
Posted by on January 29, 2009
Has the cloud been sent from the future to kill you? It’s Friday… so time for something completely different, Smugmug have already built skynet here on EC2 which decided it wanted more power… and made a semi-autonomous decision to scale itself out to mammoth proportions, if you weren’t as diligent as they are and [...]
Microsoft Virtualization User Group Meeting (UK)
Posted by on January 29, 2009
I’ll be attending this user group event this evening in London; if you’re local and interested then I believe it’s never too late to register. If you’re not local then you can view the webcast (details below) online Looks to be some interesting content, and always good to speak to customers who have done [...]
Zeus ZXTM Virtual Appliance – Quick Look
Posted by on January 27, 2009
Zeus technologies from Cambridge here in the UK are one of my favourite tech companies, they are small and agile and produce an excellent bit of traffic management software called the Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager. It’s an IP traffic manager on serious, highly-available steroids and has a very impressive list of features, I have [...]
Workload Portability: Ultimate Cloud Edition
Posted by on January 23, 2009
I like the PlateSpin range of products a lot, it really does let you take an OS instance + app stack (workload) and move it between different physical machines, hypervisors etc. in a low impact way – if you’ve not come across it before – read this post for more info I see this [...]
1 Month to VMworld Europe 2009
Posted by on January 21, 2009
It’s now almost one month until the start of VMworld Europe, this is the 2nd outing for the European event which is being held in Canne, France. If you’ve never been to one of these events and work in a technical capacity I would heartily recommend it,with the current financial climate and awful GBP/EUR [...]
CloudCamp London – March 12th
Posted by on January 19, 2009
Registration is open for the next CloudCamp event in London on March 12th, I’ve attended once before and I like the format – a set of a ‘lightning talks’ around cloud topics, some networking and some detailed breakout sessions. It’s an excellent and informal event to discuss cloud developments with your peers as well [...]
Easy to Understand Overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Posted by on January 16, 2009
Brent Ozar has an excellent post here explaining how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be used in a practical sense with a worked example. It makes it easy to understand why you could use AWS if you’ve had trouble getting your head around what this could stuff is.
VMware vExpert Award Open for Nominations
Posted by on January 15, 2009
My my, it really is vEverything now isn’t it anyways as has been widely reported over the last 24hours VMWare have announced the details of the VMWare vExpert programme, which is a way of recognising those that have contributed to the VMWare community along similar lines to Microsoft’s MVP programme. Details and a nomination [...]
Public Transport Layer for Google Maps
Posted by on January 14, 2009
This is quite a cool idea, a 3rd party has created a Google Maps overlay for public transport for many major cities. I live in London and this is especially useful as a visual aid to getting about (although I do know my way around pretty well) as you can see the mix of [...]
Manually Upgrading a Blackberry Pearl to 4.5, BIS & BES
Posted by on January 14, 2009
I have a Blackberry 8100 Pearl, it’s a great phone and I use it for both my corporate email via BES and my personal email via BIS so I have everything I need coming to one place (if you don’t know how to do this your BB will probably have an e-mail setup wizard where [...]
