Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Cloud Computing
Presenting at Cloud Expo Europe 2011
Posted by on January 24, 2011
I will be presenting with another VMware colleague, Aidan Dalgleish at Cloud Expo Europe 2011 which is being held in London on the 2nd-3rd February. Our session is on 2nd Feb at 11.30 – you can find the full schedule here and there is more information about the event here, it’s free if you [...]
Silent Data Corruption in the Cloud and building in Data Integrity
Posted by on January 20, 2011
I was passed a link to a very interesting article on-line about silent data corruption on very large data sets, where corruption creeps undetected into the data read and written by an application over time. Errors are common in reading from all media and this would normally be trapped by storage subsystem logic and [...]
ACADIA…thoughts
Posted by on May 10, 2010
Now that the VCE joint coalition has announced their new CEO they launched the acadia.com website with a blog. The Acadia proposition is interesting as a joint approach to delivering private cloud infrastructure – this sort of pre-packaged solutions offering with good vendor support is a welcome addition to the industry, but other than [...]
Double-Take puts DR into the Cloud
Posted by on February 22, 2010
A colleague passed me this link today, Double-take have a new product offering allowing copies of app-servers to be replicated to and run on Amazon’s EC2 cloud service (register article here) – syncing disk writes in a delta fashion to an EC2 hosted AMI. I suggested a similar architecture last year using Platespin, recent [...]
Cloud Camp London (21st Jan 2010) now open for registrations
Posted by on December 16, 2009
You can register for the next Cloudcamp London on the 21st Jan 2010 at this link If you don’t know what cloudcamp is about – check out one of my previous posts if you are available I recommend it.
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, [...]
Google opens up its DC so you can look inside.
Posted by on April 2, 2009
Google are hosting a conference at the moment with a focus on energy efficient DC design, because of their scale they have a vested interest in this sort of thing, up until now they have been very protective of their “Secret sauce” but are now sharing their experiences with the wider community. Key interesting points [...]
VMware Client Hypervisor (CVP) – Grid Application Thoughts
Posted by on February 24, 2009
Today VMware announced the client hypervisor they are producing and a collaboration with Intel on the hardware support (VT) and management (vPro), Citrix made a similar announcement last month (some analysis from the trusty Brian Madden here). If the client side device is now running a hypervisor this would presumably extend the same encapsulation principles [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
