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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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 …

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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 …

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