My old vCloud Director Networking for Dummies post is still going strong according to my blog statistics. I believe this is an indicator that people are looking for more information about this topic so I thought I’d give it a little bit more color and create a few real life examples on how . . . → Read More: vCloud Director 1.0.1: Networking Samples
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We have known this for years but it’s only when you get a slap on your face that you understand what’s going on for real: the GHz metric is useless these days. I was experimenting with vCloud Director the other day and I was checking out from the catalog my Turnkey Linux Core . . . → Read More: The Cloud and the Sunset of the GHz-based CPU Metric A few days ago we had a big election day in Italy for renewing a good part of the public local administration. For and in itself this wasn’t a big deal and something that wouldn’t have generated a lot of attention among the 60M people living here. However, without getting into a lot . . . → Read More: The Italian Elections and the Case for Cloudburst An entire Amazon AWS Region was recently down for four days. Everyone has got to blog something about it and this is my attempt. Just as a warning: this post may be highly controversial. There has been a litany of tweets pontificating how applications on AWS should be deployed in a . . . → Read More: TCP-clouds, UDP-clouds, “design for fail” and AWS A few days ago I was in a very interesting meeting with a big Service Provider in Europe and I heard a lot of interesting comments. I’d like to quote the best that I heard which was “Oh a portal? Oh not another one… we have many of them already!” but this will . . . → Read More: The 93.000 Firewall Rules Problem and Why Cloud is Not Just Orchestration The way VMware is packaging / positioning vShield technologies isn’t clear to everyone. This shouldn’t be surprising since we have been lately expanding the offering with a lot of new stuff. In this post I am going (to try) to make a sense of vShield, its importance and specifically how it relates to . . . → Read More: vShield products packaging explained (with a focus on vCloud Director) A few days ago I have received an email from an IBM Business Partner I used to work with during my previous life. They are (admittedly) a small partner working primarily with local Italian SMB customers and they are (or I should say were) in the business of reselling hardware, software and integrate . . . → Read More: vCloud, the Morphing Channel Behavior and Neural Circuits I am very excited about this episode. Today we are announcing a new technology called VMware vCloud Connector and this is going to be the core of this episode. But before you read on I urge you to read this other post of mine that went live together with this and that explains, . . . → Read More: My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 4: Managing Workloads with vCloud Connector Talking from experience, trying to explain “cloud computing” comes with its own challenges. Trying to explain “hybrid cloud computing” is even harder. I always like to think about cloud computing (or hybrid) not as a weapon that marketing departments gave us to cheat people, but rather as a name (or a concept if . . . → Read More: VMware vCloud Connector: on the way to the Hybrid Clouds It was dense! That’s pretty much it. Today 3/2/2011 (or 2/3/2011 as the US folks would erroneously write) marks my very first year at VMware. My switch from IBM (where I worked for 15 years) to VMware was a quick one and among the contacts I have made to . . . → Read More: My first year @ VMware |
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