I wanted to follow up from yesterday’s post on the upcoming Cloud Connect event. In particular, I want to talk a bit about the track I’m leading: Cloud Migrations. The focus of the track is to talk about:
How to adopt cloud now
Choosing between clouds: internal, external, or both?
Real world example use cases
Understanding how clouds are built [...]
If you’re not aware of it, CloudConnect 2010 is coming up on March 15-18th in Santa Clara, CA. Our team is running the Cloud Migrations track and a special breakout session on building Private Clouds. We managed to get some really great panelists for the Migrations track and we’re going to move from talking about [...]
It’s difficult to throw a stone these days without hitting a so-called ‘hybrid cloud.’ The problem is that the term hybrid, used in this context, appears to mean: “Put any two kinds of clouds together.” In fact, that’s how NIST defines it in their cloud definition document [1]. The problem with this [...]
Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon. The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing. Hence, the “cloud” in cloud computing means that cloud is predominantly an outsourcing business model. Only large scale [...]
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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