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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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. They have seen my blog …

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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 about another angle you can use to view cloud …

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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 "cloud thing" I came to the conclusion that you …

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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. 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 in their recognition of …

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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 you have three choices: With …

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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 VM …

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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 …

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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. This year’s VMworld was crazier than ever—and a return to our geekier roots. And, as I promised in an earlier post, this year’s event would be a lot of fun for those …

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