By Massimo, on January 28th, 2011 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
By Massimo, on January 26th, 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.
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
By Massimo, on January 20th, 2011 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
By Massimo, on January 13th, 2011 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
By Massimo, on November 30th, 2010 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
By Massimo, on November 15th, 2010 What is cloud? Good question. You can put down a list of things that relates to cloud. I tried to do this in a previous post. But I’ve thought recently that that list (alone) doesn’t really cut it.
After having worked for a number of months all day long on this . . . → Read More: Virtualization Sandbox Vs Cloud Sandbox (from an end-user perspective)
By Massimo, on November 3rd, 2010 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.
Over the last few days there have been a bunch of articles that , all of a sudden, are surprisingly (when you consider the sources) quite pointed . . . → Read More: Thoughts Around Service Provider’s Public Cloud Platforms
By Massimo, on October 26th, 2010 These days I am working on a bunch of new vCloud products that are currently in private beta and I found myself in need to create an Organization on vCloud Director (vCD from now on) with authentication backed by an Active Directory. As you may know, when you create a new vCD Organization . . . → Read More: vCloud Director and Active Directory Backed Authentication
By Massimo, on September 30th, 2010 One of the promise of cloud computing is the simplification through standardization of deployments. A major role in this is played by the vCloud Director Catalog. In vCloud Director version 1.0 the catalog is a collection of vApps and media files. If you are familiar with vSphere think of vApp templates as vSphere . . . → Read More: vCloud Director: Catalog Experiments
By Massimo, on September 14th, 2010 During the Beta phase of vCloud Director (aka Redwood) I put together a small deck called “Redwood Networking for Dummies”. I have received a number of positive feedbacks so I decided to turn that document into a blog post. Networking in vCloud Director is certainly a controversial matter. I believe it is fair . . . → Read More: vCloud Director Networking for Dummies
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