Category Archives: Virtualization

Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger

April 26, 2009 – 13:51

Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud.  Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture.  This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying to understand VMware and their cloud computing plans.  It was only recently given by Orran [...]

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Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?

April 13, 2009 – 10:54

As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate.  Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else.  Some consider “cloud computing” to encompass infrastructure only.  Others use “Infrastructure-as-a-service” (IaaS) or even “Hardware-as-a-Service” (HaaS) to define that part [...]

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Cloud Computing Is Green?

March 12, 2009 – 19:07

Great time at the OpSource SaaS Summit 2009 today where I made the case that cloud computing is green by virtue of the efficiencies it drives.  I think you’ll find this an interesting presentation as some information on ServePath / GoGrid is revealed.  Nothing juicy I’m afraid, but nevertheless I’m sure some of you will [...]

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GoGrid Quietly Releases Larger Servers

February 12, 2009 – 16:37

We quietly released 4 & 8GB servers today.  There will be a press release early next week.  Readers of my blog get this early tidbit.  ;)
The release includes 4GB 64-bit servers with 3 CPU cores for Linux and Windows via the UI and API.  8GB 64-bit servers with 6 CPU cores are also available, but [...]

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VM Image Sprawl in Real Life

January 1, 2009 – 23:45

A while back, Geva Perry and I were chatting about the issue of virtual machine image sprawl (Google Search), which is really little more than an extension of not-so-new traditional physical server sprawl problem. It’s hard to get really hard data on how bad the vm sprawl problem is since most images exist behind [...]

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