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 certain way to achieve the maximum …

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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 open up a different can of worms so I am not …

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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 vCloud Director. I …

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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 them for the …

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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, in more details, what we are trying to do …

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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 …

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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 make it happen there is a paragraph of an email exchange I had …

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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 a public or …

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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 slightly different angle than usual. …

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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, …

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