Featured
Open Source: Projects to Watch (hint: OpenStack and Docker)
October 23, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
We’ve been seeing a lot of activity around open source projects lately. It isn’t that they haven’t existed before, but there is an increased focus on open source software that is proving to be a powerful adversary for the traditional … Read More
EMC Ups Their OpenStack Game; Acquires Cloudscaling
October 13, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
There are a lot of deals happening in technology lately around OpenStack. Today marked another of those big days with another acquisition as EMC announced the purchase of Cloudscaling, founded by Randy Bias.
Financial details were not disclosed as the … Read More
AWS Live Migration? Some Say it’s Coming
October 12, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
The ongoing debate about the requirement to have live migration of instances in a cloud environment is rearing its head again. It’s seemingly split between the traditional enterprise side of management, and the more scale-out, application style method which is … Read More
White Paper: Get Your Data Under Control in 5 Steps
October 6, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Across every industry vertical and without regard for organization size, there is one fact that remains true: the data deluge is upon us. The much-ballyhooed “Big Data” phenomenon that prognosticators have warned about is here. Whether or not you’re a … Read More
Monkeying with Infrastructure: How Netflix Dealt with EC2 Reboots
October 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As we’ve seen recently in the news, the shellshock vulnerability, also know as Bash bug, has become a new issue for servers around the world. Outside of that, there was also a Xen Security Announcement (XSA) that affected approximately 10% of Amazon … Read More
Veeam Expands Industry Partnerships To Boost Adoption
September 23, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
For many people, when they think of backup for their virtual environments, they think of Veeam. This should come as no surprise since Veeam was one of the original vendors in the virtualization backup space and the company continues to … Read More
Networking for OpenStack: What Should You Know about Juno?
September 22, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
As the “J” release of OpenStack, the popular open source cloud environment approaches, we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for each of the individual projects within. Dubbed “Juno”, this release will become available in October … Read More
VMware adds more DevOps Tools to the Menu with Chef
September 19, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
More focus is coming to the area of DevOps and to automation and orchestration in general. VMware has long been regarded as a “traditional” virtualization stack, with some potential shortcomings with regards to their drive to take on the dynamic … Read More
HP Recipe for OpenStack: Just Add Eucalyptus
September 11, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
HP has been launching initiatives into the OpenStack ecosystem in a big way over the last year with the biggest announcement coming in the spring during at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. As HP debuted their Helion OpenStack offering, they … Read More
Why VMware is Embracing OpenStack and Docker
September 8, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 2
With all of the focus on OpenStack and Docker lately, it is no surprise that even VMware is making plans to integrate and compete with players in the open source cloud and container space. VMware has long been involved with … Read More
Introducing HyperConverged.org
September 8, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
A couple of years ago, a new data center architecture option hit the market by storm and has garnered a lot of attention – and deservedly so. This architecture, which has become known as Hyperconverged Infrastructure, carries with it the … Read More
Veeam Provides a Whole Lot of Free (And Useful!) Goodies
September 6, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 1
You probably know that Veeam has provided some tools for free, but you may not know that full breadth of what you can get from the company without paying a dime. Obviously, Veeam hopes that you fall in love with … Read More
Swimming in the DigitalOcean with CoreOS
September 5, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
CoreOS is fast becoming the operating system of choice of many developers. Described as “warehouse-scale” computing, the linux derivative provides a unique ability to run in a very small footprint along with many features that are gaining lots of attraction … Read More
MARVIN (aka EVO) Revealed! VMware Becomes a Hyperconverged Hardware Provider
August 31, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
There has been a lot written in the last week as VMware unveiled its new hardware offering EVO:RAIL and the upcoming EVO:RACK which will be available in the coming months. This is an interesting step for the virtualization software leader … Read More
SimpliVity Puts the S in Cisco UCS; Announces New Relationship
August 24, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 3
This is a big day for the team at SimpliVity as they announce a new relationship with Cisco to provide the SimpliVity PCIe Accelerator Card and OmniStack feature set on Cisco UCS C240 M3 Series Rackmount server platform.
This is definitely … Read More
SUSE Unveils New Cloud Platform
August 21, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As a long time user of SUSE Linux, it is exciting to see the growth in the platform which just got a very interesting feature addition with the latest iteration of the SUSE cloud platform. SUSE Cloud is up against … Read More
VMworld Tips From VirtualizationSoftware.com
August 19, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As we quickly approach VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, this is a particularly important time to talk about the excitement of the event and how you can meet the team from VirtualizationSoftware.com while we are in San Francisco.
VMworld – … Read More
Platform9: Out of Stealth, Into Your Private Cloud
August 12, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Today is a big day for Platform9, a new startup which just came out of stealth to announce their exciting new private cloud provisioning platform. There are lots of waves in the market around the public versus the private cloud, … Read More
VMware and Arista: Putting More SD into the VMware SDDC
August 8, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Strategic partnerships are arising among many vendors as technologies become more synergistic. VMware announced today that they are entering into a partnership with SDN switch manufacturer Arista Networks. Arista is becoming a widely known name as they continue to expand … Read More
Virtualization, Cloud, Bare-Metal, and Tapjoy
August 7, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
The conversations are happening all over the place: “Should we cloud, co-lo, or host our own?” to which the answer will differ depending who you talk to. The real reason that the answer should differ shouldn’t be based on who … Read More
The Pluralsight Experience: The Making of Introduction to OpenStack
August 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
For those who aren’t familiar with my work that is done outside of content creation for Virtualization Software and Enterprise Storage Guide, I also author for Pluralsight after being introduced to them by our very own David Davis.
In 2013 … Read More
VMware Containers? Patents Speak Volumes Sometimes
July 29, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
VMware is the holder of many patents as you can imagine. One that stood out recently among the many that are pending was one that touts the capability to perform virtual machine software upgrades using virtual disk swapping.
Is this … Read More
Is Amazon Winning the Race to Zero and Taking Shareholders With Them?
July 27, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
We hear often of what is being called the “race to zero” which is the battle among public cloud providers to drive prices as low as possible to draw customers into their platform. Amazon Web Services holds the lion’s share … Read More
VMware Hopping to DevOps With the Help of JFrog?
July 27, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 2
VMware has certainly indicated their strong interest in the success of software distribution startup JFrog as they led a 7 Million dollar Series B round of funding. Along with Gemini Ventures who led the Series A round for JFrog, we can … Read More
Keeping it Simple: Infrastructure as Code
July 25, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Let’s start by introducing Simple. They are introducing a new way to do banking, and manage your finances. So why are we talking about them here at Virtualization Software? Well, that’s because Simple doesn’t just aim to simplify banking, they … Read More
Our Sponsors
-
February 28, 2018
