I read a number of blogs on a regular basis. One category I watch fairly closely is storage, largely because it has a direct impact on the future of virtualization, but also because it is also going through some radical changes in terms of storage virtualization and commoditization. Storage virtualization...

Very cool, one of our competitors, RightScale, launched their new product, RightGrid. It’s an interesting solution they are advocating, although it doesn’t feel much different from a standard batch processing system. But if you are looking for this kind of solution, I would strongly suggest you check them out. Our...

This entry is partly a rebuttal to Billy Marshall’s recent blog entry Amazon and the CIO Nightmare and also partly an opportunity to transition this blog to a place to expound a bit on what interests me in technology and IT. Quick Background One of the things I did in...

Apologies for the radio silence. We have been rapidly evolving the Virtual Server Room product over the past several months. The result has been the decision to morph into a service that leverages Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and to roll that service into a new company and organization, CloudScale...

A 4-minute video by David Berlind on ZDnet that explains Amazon’s EC2, including breaking down the costs versus a dedicated hosting provider.

As a proof of concept, we’ve released a new Amazon EC2 ‘AMI’ (ami-34ba5f5d) that uses filesystem encryption (dm-crypt) for the ‘ephemeral store’. This image is available to the general public and we hope you get some good use from it. If you were holding back testing because of concerns around...

We use, almost exclusively, 64-bit operating systems, for both Linux and Windows in our own virtualization systems and are convinced that 32-bit OSes are dead except for specialty purposes (e.g. mobile computing, embedded devices). There are a number of contributing factors to this conclusion, but most important are processors and...

What are ‘Virtual Machines’ and why should you care? This article explores that question with an eye to the impact on startups in particular. Background Machine virtualization technology has existed for a very long time. From the days of IBM’s VM/CMS operating system, created in 1996, in fact. Although treated...