IT 2.0

vCloud Director Networking for Dummies

Sep 14, 2010 · 19 min read ·

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 …

vSphere, vCloud and the Meaning of being “Open”

Sep 13, 2010 · 8 min read ·

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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 …

Thoughts on VMworld 7.0 and Virtualization 2.0

Aug 21, 2010 · 5 min read ·

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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. Yes that's right, it’s the 7th year of VMworld. The event started years back as a small gathering of a few hundreds geeks. At least this is what VMware was expecting, in …

Open standards, open source, OpenStack and the TCPIP of Cloud APIs

Aug 12, 2010 · 8 min read ·

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A few weeks ago Rackspace and NASA announced an initiative called OpenStack aimed at providing an(other) open source alternative for building public and private clouds. This generated some reactions in the open source community like this one from the OpenNebula team. By the way do not confuse OpenNebula, one of the …

Cloud and the New IT Pillars

Jun 29, 2010 · 6 min read ·

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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. I have used one of my recent posts in some off-line discussions about the use and penetration of virtualization in some accounts. In this post I’d like to expand a bit …

Are Hypervisors Cloud Commodities?

Jun 5, 2010 · 5 min read ·

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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. There have been a number of discussions in the industry in the last few years about whether hypervisors are (becoming) a commodity and whether the value is (or will be) …

VMware, Virtualization… and More

Jun 2, 2010 · 5 min read ·

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Before joining VMware roughly 4 months ago I was wondering, along with many of you, what sort of company VMware was turning into and what they were doing and what they wanted to become in the long run. The more I was tracking VMware buying (supposedly) disconnected companies the more I was thinking "what does this …

Public Cloud Adoption Curve – is History Repeating?

May 18, 2010 · 5 min read ·

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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. As I mentioned in my previous post I started working on virtualization technologies years ago. It was around 2003 when I started talking, at public events, about what one …

Don’t Fear the Cloud (the Cloud is Good)

May 18, 2010 · 4 min read ·

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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. I have been working in IT for about 15 years now, nine of which I have spent working with customers to get the maximum out of VMware enterprise technologies in the x86 …

I am back (on the blogsphere)!

Apr 17, 2010 · 5 min read ·

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Yes I am back. After a few months of "electronic silence" (on this blog at least) here I am again. For those (few) of you that may have been wondering "where (on earth) is he?"..... well lots of things happened and I have been pretty busy. One for all I joined VMware after having spent more than 15 …