Last week Alessandro Perilli of Gartner posted one of his controversial takes on cloud. In this particular post he, basically, pointed out that many CMP vendors aren't really selling a truly integrated cloud management platform software. Instead, they are proposing a rebranded old piece of software augmented with new …

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Warning: yes it is one of those highly philosophical posts. I spent the last 10 months or so "playing around" the vCloud Hybrid Service (aka vCHS). And I spent time "playing around" AWS (and Azure) too, for obvious reasons. There are a few things that are tangibly different between vCHS and …

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In this blog post I am going to describe the capabilities of the Load Balancing service in vCHS. This isn't going to focus on a specific use case (albeit I may refer to various software and solutions for examples). Instead I will focus more on the technical capabilities. I'd like to think about this article as the …

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In the vCHS API 101 blog post I have walked you through how to find out your vCHS API end-point(s) as well as how to navigate the structure with the RESTClient browser plug-in. This was more or less a read-only tour of the structure of the objects in the virtual data center. In this post I'd like to show you how to …

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When people think about vCHS they think about the vCHS portal. However we all know that an IaaS Cloud isn't (just) about a portal but rather about how you can consume it via APIs. In this post I am going to give you a brief 101 overview of how you can consume vCHS via APIs. Warning: the service will iterate quickly so …

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In the last few weeks I had lots of discussions with customers and partners regarding the concept of T-Shirt Size instances as well as the nuances of storage management in both AWS and vCHS. In this post I'd like to touch on both. A similar (albeit not as detailed) discussion was included in the AWS and vCHS parallel …

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Last week at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, among various other sessions, I presented "a Parallel between vCloud Hybrid Service and Amazon Web Services" (session #PHC5123). It went overall fairly well with lots of positive feedbacks. The one that stood out for me was a tweet from Jack Clark. I enjoyed reading …

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I have just got back from VMworld 2013 where, for some reasons, I ended up in many "how did you get this blog thing started" and "when did you start speaking at VMworld?" type of discussions. It's fun to go through those memories during team dinners. I thought I'd write a short (yeah, sure..) blog …

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When I see my proposals being accepted at VMworld... my ego typically gives way to fear and anxiety. Attendees invest time, money and their expectations are (rightly so) very high. I usually hate going on stage and look dumb (it happens). More so at VMworld. So help me doing a better job, please. For 2013 two of them …

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Today (technically it's still 11:59 PM Pacific Time) VMware announced the vCloud Hybrid Service (aka vCHS). I have been keeping an eye on how this idea developed internally for a certain amount of time. I have been more closely involved since December last year when I participated in some "sausage making" …

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