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)
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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 Everybody says the future is in hybrid clouds. In fact that’s where I think the “trust” in private clouds and the “flexibility” of public clouds will find the compromise: it will be a mix of both. The ultimate goal is for a cloud consumer to be able to deploy a workload onto either . . . → Read More: My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 3: Moving vSphere Workloads into the Cloud 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. A homonym (and anonymous) friend of mind I used to work with in a previous IT life sent me a document exploring cloud economics from . . . → Read More: Economics of Cloud Computing – A Different Angle In the first episode of this series of posts we explored the cloud on-boarding experience with VMware partner Stratogen. I strongly suggest you read the first episode first for proper context moving forward. In essence we subscribed to the Stratogen public cloud offering (currently in beta) and I am now going to show, . . . → Read More: My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 2: Basic Cloud Consumption I believe there is nothing like using a technology (or a solution) from an end-user perspective to really appreciate it. That’s what this series of episodes is all about. A little bit of background: back in November last year I was approached by a UK based VMware hosting partner called Stratogen. . . . → Read More: My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 1: The On-Boarding As I am sitting on my plane to Frankfurt with 45 minutes of delay due to heavy snow I thought I’d give this thought of mine a place on this blog. A few days ago I have posted an article regarding the concept of the cloud “Sandbox”. Here I’d like to post something . . . → Read More: Random Thoughts and Blasphemies around IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and the Cloud Contract |
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