Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Speaking about Cloud Production & Delivery at IBC
Posted by on August 30, 2009
I am going to be speaking at the IBC conference in Amsterdam on 11th September on cloud production and delivery. IBC is the event of the year for the broadcast and electronic media industry and I’m pleased to be representing ioko. Following my presentation I’ll be participating in a panel discussion with other industry experts. [...]
VMworld SF 2009 Coverage
Posted by on August 28, 2009
Unfortunately I won’t be at VMworld in San Francisco in person this year as I am about to become a father again. I could probably have just squeezed it in but the prospect of an emergency flight back across the atlantic was a bit too much of a risk if proceedings started early so I [...]
Private Connectivity to Amazon EC2 – your own Private Cloud, in the Cloud
Posted by on August 26, 2009
VPN connectivity and private networking within EC2 are now available, this is great news – I mused on the possibilities of this sort of thing previously in this post. This is a key step to gaining corporate acceptance, and proves that there is definitely still a use case and demand for a private cloud, [...]
ZXTM Virtual Appliance Flies on vSphere
Posted by on August 20, 2009
I wrote about my favourite software IP traffic Manager, the ZXTM in a previous post. Zeus have just released a white-paper benchmarking their ZXTM virtual appliance running on vSphere. Interesting to note that for plain HTTP traffic they noted a 25% performance increase over ESX 3.5u4 and were able to max out the 4Gb/s [...]
Is your MS Application Supported under VMware, Hyper-V, Xen? – the DEFINITIVE Statement from Microsoft
Posted by on August 14, 2009
A colleague has just made me aware of a new tool on the Microsoft website, it is a wizard that can tell you if specific Microsoft App/OS/Architecture combinations are supported under the SVVP (Server Virtualization Validation Programme) – I previously wrote about the SVVP here, which promised to resolve many of the pains we [...]
VMware ESX 5
Posted by on August 7, 2009
Ok, so vSphere (ESX4) has only just been released, but what would you like to see in the next major version? Hyper V R2 will be out soon, and I would expect it’s successor within a further 18 months. whilst vSphere is a technically better product now Microsoft are going to be throwing a [...]
