Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Virtual Fabric
Virtualization – the key to delivering "cloud based architecture" NOW.
Posted by on June 23, 2008
There is a lot of talk about delivering cloud or elastic computing platforms, a lot of CxO’s are taking this all in and nodding enthusiastically, they can see the benefits.. so make it happen!….yesterday. Moving your services to the cloud, isn’t always about giving your apps and data to Google, Amazon or Microsoft. You [...]
A Closer look at Green IT and Microsoft’s new Container Data Centre in Chicago
Posted by on May 24, 2008
Link here – good visualisation about 10mins in of how their new Chicago data centre is laid out internally. With virtualisation breaking the traditional hardware/OS ties; this is becoming an increasingly appealing way of managing commodity compute grid resources for large organisations. Mike makes some good points about the de-comissioning of servers on a [...]
Solid Sate SAN, Storage vMotion and VMWare – HSM for your VMs
Posted by on May 13, 2008
You’ve been able to buy solid state SAN technology like the Tera-RAMSAN from TMS which gives you up to 1Tb of storage, presented over 4Gb/s fibre channel or Infiniband @10Gb/s… with the cost of flash storage dropping its going to soon fall in to the realms of affordability (from memory a year ago 1Tb [...]
New Microsoft Data Centre is Container Based
Posted by on April 2, 2008
Article here, it’s coming people! Some interesting discussions on how you can measure the productivity of a container and come up with some common metrics to compare and contrast and handle charge-back.
Cisco ASR is Virtual to the Core, all 40 of them!
Posted by on March 14, 2008
Interesting article here on how Cisco have made heavy use of virtualization within their new ASR series router platform, Linux underneath and 40 core CPUs! This type of approach does make me wonder if we will get to the stage of running traditional “network” and “storage” services as VM’s under a shared hypervisor with [...]
Mmmm, Big, Really Big Cisco Switches
Posted by on February 11, 2008
Over here and here like the idea of combining FC and Ethernet in one chassis; They’re not cheap though, more info and viewpoint here and spec here looks to be the next step up from 6500 series catalyst. Cool
Hot-Swap Datacentres
Posted by on February 11, 2008
There’s an interesting post over on Forrester research blog by James Staten. he’s talking some more about data centres in a container; making the data centre the FRU rather than a server or server components (Disk, PSU etc.). This isn’t a new idea but it I’m sure the economics of scale currently mean this [...]
Interesting Article on how DreamWorks are Speeding up Access for Animators
Posted by on February 6, 2008
I have a geeky secret; I used to be really into ray-tracing and 3D graphics not so much from an “art” point of view – although I do have an interest in that and computer modelling/visualisation checks a lot of boxes for me as I always wanted to be a civil engineer or architect [...]
