Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Cloud
Of ITIL and Cloud
Posted by on February 1, 2011
I have been watching this conversation about ITIL, virtualization and cloud play out over the last year; some very enthusiastic bloggers loudly bash ITIL for how unsuitable it is in the modern cloud world, change control for vMotion? do you update your CMDB when you vMotion? lunacy? how? tools? methods? consultancy? snake-oil? £££? I [...]
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 [...]
Park your own Azure Cloud in your Carpark with Microsoft
Posted by on July 12, 2010
I noted with interest that Microsoft have announced some details of the Azure platform appliance, a way of running the components of their Azure cloud service in your own data centre. It reads from the article that this will be based around a container/pod type architectural unit of many servers, rather than a single [...]
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 [...]
