Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Cloud Computing
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.
Amazon EC2 Web Console
Posted by on January 12, 2009
I’ve been doing a bit of playing about with Amazon’s EC2 cloud services recently, this is just a quick post with some screenshots of the new beta web console they have launched. Up until now you had to control it via command line, or a firefox plug in – now Amazon have launched their [...]
What is the Cloud..?
Posted by on January 8, 2009
Following on from some discussion on Scott Lowe’s blog around the lack of a clear definition of cloud computing, I offer this as my opinion… it’s just that; and I’d welcome comments. I’m an infrastructure chap by trade but my motto is there are no apps without infrastructure, and this cloud stuff is all [...]
IBM BladeCenter S – Virtual DC in a Box
Posted by on November 24, 2008
There is a detailed post here from IT2.0 on the IBM BladeCenter S, it shows how the chassis itself can contain disks and RAID’ed SAS controllers and works with vMotion/HA etc. and could potentially run up to 100 VM’s within 7U (no mention of power – which is more interesting to me). If I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
VMWare vCloud
Posted by on September 15, 2008
The news is out, VMWare are building some very interesting technology frameworks to enable you to build your own cloud architectures, but also to be able to transition VMs from your environment to a service provider offering a hosted service and mix & match as required. All very clever stuff, I’ve been working with [...]
