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VMware wants to be the VMware of Networking

By Massimo, on April 17th, 2012%

There have been a lot of discussions lately about SDN (Software Defined Networking).

Arguably SDN may mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. If you ask the like of Facebook, Google and academic researchers they will probably tell you that SDN is all about gaining full visibility (and . . . → Read More: VMware wants to be the VMware of Networking

vCloud Director 1.5 Multisite Cloud Considerations

By Massimo, on March 20th, 2012%

In the last few months, among other things, I have been working on the document in subject. Being able to deploy vCloud Director 1.5 across different sites is something our customers and service provider partners have been asking us a lot.

Some of these customers and partners have decided to deploy . . . → Read More: vCloud Director 1.5 Multisite Cloud Considerations

The Cost of Doing Public Cloud with VMware

By Massimo, on March 7th, 2012%

Very often VMware gets compared to the Ferrari of cloud computing whereas AWS gets compared to the Ford. Others describe this as “Enterprise” Vs. “Commodity” clouds. While VMware tends to proudly take this as an esteem of the value you can extract from the software, people usually refer to that meaning that VMware based . . . → Read More: The Cost of Doing Public Cloud with VMware

The Frankencloud

By Massimo, on March 6th, 2012%

For a change, last week on twitter there was a discussion about multi hypervisor deployments. Knowing that, after food and family, multihypervisor is my biggest interest, I was taken and thrown into that discussion. Again. Unfortunately.

Yes, I do have (strong) opinions about the thing but, regardless, I believe it will happen anyway. . . . → Read More: The Frankencloud

The Cloud Magic Rectangle ™

By Massimo, on February 27th, 2012%

This isn’t the counter argument to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (I think). Oh, and notice I am not even going into the “this is cloud, this is not cloud” type of discussions. How boring? World peace folks, everything is cloud, even my bike (according to the NIST definition anyway).

In all seriousness it is . . . → Read More: The Cloud Magic Rectangle ™

Will we need a C for Nicira? God forbid!

By Massimo, on February 9th, 2012%

This morning I was on the phone with Ivan Pepelnjak (@ioshints) to decipher some of the paragraphs in one of his latest posts on Nicira Open vSwitch inside vSphere. He always has to bear with my stupid questions so I can see him (virtually), from time to time, facepalming some of my questions. Long . . . → Read More: Will we need a C for Nicira? God forbid!

The ABC of Lock-In

By Massimo, on February 2nd, 2012%

There have been a lot of discussions lately about a topic I find extremely interesting: vendor lock-in.

Multi-hypervisor is a discipline where you can apply the high level ranting below but you can really apply it to pretty much everything in IT.

I started this blog . . . → Read More: The ABC of Lock-In

Virtualization Costs, Virtualization Advantages and the Case for Multi-Hypervisors

By Massimo, on January 9th, 2012%

Last week I came across an interesting blog post from Mark Thiele. The idea of the article is that, as virtualization becomes a relevant cost for IT, it becomes a target for savings. I tried to engage with Mark on twitter but discussing a matter like this in 140 chars becomes a bit frustrating. . . . → Read More: Virtualization Costs, Virtualization Advantages and the Case for Multi-Hypervisors

vCD Custom Portals and Backend Integrations in a Service Provider Environment

By Massimo, on December 1st, 2011%

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog.

This topic is (rightly so) coming up a lot lately with the Service Providers (SPs) I am working with so I thought I’d share some high level . . . → Read More: vCD Custom Portals and Backend Integrations in a Service Provider Environment

Amazon, Netflix, Standard Cloud APIs and the Inevitable Lock-in

By Massimo, on September 14th, 2011%

A few weeks ago Adrian Cockcroft (Cloud Architect @ Netflix) wrote another very interesting post on his blog. Adrian warms up the discussion sharing his experience about the reasons for which you may want to use public cloud services. While there are a lot of people (including myself) sometimes advocating about these concepts, . . . → Read More: Amazon, Netflix, Standard Cloud APIs and the Inevitable Lock-in

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