My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 3: Moving vSphere Workloads into the Cloud

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

Economics of Cloud Computing – A Different Angle

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

My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 2: Basic Cloud Consumption

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

My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 1: The On-Boarding

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

Random Thoughts and Blasphemies around IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and the Cloud Contract

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

Virtualization Sandbox Vs Cloud Sandbox (from an end-user perspective)

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)

Thoughts Around Service Provider’s Public Cloud Platforms

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

vCloud Director and Active Directory Backed Authentication

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

vCloud Director: Catalog Experiments

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

vCloud Director Networking for Dummies

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