Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: vCloud
Career vMotion
Posted by on August 20, 2010
Apologies, my blog has been a bit quiet of late, some of this is due to a much overdue holiday but mainly because I have been nearing the end of my time with my current employer and have been very busy finishing up projects and documentation. Ok, so here it is – I am [...]
VMware Licensing for the vCloud..
Posted by on March 29, 2010
I have been involved with VMware’s vCloud programme since it was announced late 2008, I was part of getting involved as one of a handful of partners on the launch-day and I have been doing private cloud work with customers since early 2008. Whilst I was somewhat disappointed that as a smaller partner we [...]
Long Distance vMotion… heading to the vCloud
Posted by on June 30, 2009
VMware have an interesting proof of concept document posted online here, this is great progress for the platform and it can only be helped out by the close partnership with Cisco that has resulted in the NX1000V switch. I’m no networking expert but to my understanding there are issues with extending Layer 2 networks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
