Some exciting news on the open cloud front. Nicira’s openvswitch (think: open source Cisco Nexus 1000V) made it in as the default vSwitch in the latest release of the Xen Cloud Platform. For those who aren’t aware, the Xen Cloud Platform is an open source provider/cloud-focused management framework for clouds. The website says:
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We’re a little late in posting this due to the holidays, but I have some exciting stats to share with you. In 2009 the Cloudscaling blog became one of the hottest destinations for cloud knowhow. A big part of that success was our unique perspective on cloud computing. We aren’t a news aggregation site. Instead [...]
Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach. All of these still hold true today. In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the notion of using clouds for global reach.
As you know, since then quite a bit has [...]
Just in time for the New Year, we’re releasing a short 12 page whitepaper on building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. This whitepaper is targeted at folks building public or private clouds who want to understand our general take on clouds, cloud computing, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. In particular, we highlight some of the important areas to think about [...]
It’s important to understand the potential differences between virtual server disk drives and physical disk drives, so I wanted to post a very brief blog on the topic. For this article I’ve chosen to compare the performance of an iSCSI SAN on Gigabit Ethernet to a single SATA disk drive. The reason for this is [...]
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