Posts tagged "cloud-2"

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Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Scality

Jul 20, 2017

( part of the Tech Field Day family of events is happening in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, from 26-28 July and I’m super excited to be invited as a delegate. We are hearing from a number of companies about how they cloud! Scality is one of the new storage companies leveraging the AWS S3 storage API standard to create new enterprise storage options beyond your typical block and file store....

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Meeting Virtustream + the updated BIG news

Nov 3, 2015

Since VMworld there's been a huge amount of news about EMC(Dell)+Virtustream\_vCloud Air. Basically EMC(Dell) will be consolidating most of its cloud assets under Virtustream which will be spun out as a separate company with EMC(Dell) owning 50% and VMware the other half. I'll go into more details of the spin out but first here's what I learnt speaking to them at the show. _Adding some more col...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Meeting OpenNebula

Oct 28, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Open Nebula says it is an enterprise-ready turnkey solution for deploying private clouds, You can use KVM, Xen or ESXi as your hypervisor and can also layer it over vCenter to provide a multi-tenant private cloud. As a consumer you can use AWS EC2 and EBS APIs, it has a marketplace of appliances ready to be run in...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Day 1 General Session Thoughts

Oct 27, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ I suppose you could say VMworld for most attendees (partners were having their 1st day yesterday) kicked off with the General Sessions. The keynote had fair amount of content common to the ( with some local changed information. There was no point live blogging as a lot of the content has been covered previously s...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Meeting Cirba

Oct 27, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Cloud placement is going to be an interesting future conundrum: what cloud, what location, what network, what price, what risk, what availability? This was a good primer before I get to hear more in a few weeks.

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Should I be Transitioning my Legacy Applications into CNA? - CNA6813-QT

Oct 27, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Session was led by Chris Crafford, a Practice Manager, VMware This again was a high level overview of the technologies available and went through what microservice are, the 12 factor apps I mentioned ( and why they are better for cloud environments. Microservices only manage the data they care about, are accessed...

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VMworld Europe Preview: Differences + the DevOps Dilemmas

Oct 7, 2015

I previewed VMworld San Francisco in my post: ( where I initially highlighted the recent people changes at VMware as well as the rough and tumble world VMware lives in while marketing and selling storage and networking. I also spent some time going though the changing face of application development which I'll expand on in this post. VMworld Europe is the smaller sibling to the exuberant big 'o...

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How Policy will drive the Software Defined Data Center

Jul 25, 2014

Many companies trying to take advantage of cloud computing are embracing the moniker of the "Software Defined Data Center" as one way to understand and communicate the benefits of moving towards an infrastructure resource utility model. ( has taken on the term SDDC to mean doing everything in your data center with software and not requiring any custom hardware. Other companies sell "software-de...

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HP Discover US 2014. The Day 3 Buzz & Wrap Up

Jun 13, 2014

Today was the final day of HP Discover. There was meant to be a blogger Coffee Talk this morning from HP Software but I was the only one to attend. The HP Software division isn't in my normal area of interest so was an opportunity to find out what its all about. Instead of having a group blogger chat, I spent an interesting hour with ( VP of Strategic Marketing and Chief Evangelist who is a passi...

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VMware PowerCLI 5.01 released adding vCloud Director Automation

Jan 10, 2012

VMware has released what at first looks like a minor update to their PowerShell snapin, ( Although just a .01 release which brings the usual changes and bug fixes which are listed ( the big news is that VMware has added a whole bunch of cmdlets for managing vCloud Director. A whole new snapin has been created called VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud and this initial release focuses more on the report...

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