Tag Archives: infrastructure
VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND ONE … FIGHT!
More and more it’s becoming apparent that VMware and Amazon are headed for a serious collision. Amazon is eager to capture more of the enterprise business market, VMware’s bread and butter. Meanwhile, VMware is actively supporting a new crop of … Continue reading
Bifurcating Clouds
There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium. If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], … Continue reading
My Top 5 Cloud Posts in H1 2009
Frequently new readers are curious about this blog. It helps when I periodically summarize the most popular blog postings. So, without further ado, here’s the top 5 posts in the first half of ’09. Be sure to also check out … Continue reading
Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized
It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science. There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up. Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of … Continue reading
Infrastructure as Code Presentations
If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ’09. I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only … Continue reading