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HotLink Offers DRaaS to Reduce Your DR Blood Pressure
February 1, 2016 | James Green
I recently wrote about a product that leverages public cloud resources such as Amazon Web Services to provide backup and recovery for on-premises workloads. Another such solution is HotLink’s DR Express, which for some time now has allowed the backup … Read More
Cisco Firing on All Pistons in OpenStack Cloud
June 12, 2015 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Cisco, a company which was traditionally known for their network equipment, such as routers and switches just a few years ago has continued to further diversify their business over the last several years. In 2014, Cisco purchased Metacloud, an OpenStack … Read More
HP Expands the Cloud with Helion Updates
June 12, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
HP recently announced multiple enhancements to their Helion Cloud product suite at HP Discover 2015. Since its initial announcement in 2014, the Helion Cloud has grown by leaps and bounds with a focus on HP enterprise customers.
HP Helion CloudSystem … Read More
Cloudy Forecast, EMC Purchases Virtustream
June 11, 2015 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
EMC, a company traditionally known for their storage systems, has announced they are acquiring Virtustream for 1.2 Billion Dollars in cash. This move is another in a series of acquisitions faced on the cloud computing market space over the last … Read More
Blue Box gets a Boost: OpenStack Provider Announces Funding Round
January 6, 2015 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack continues to draw more attention as we see more funding announcements and product news. Seattle-based OpenStack private cloud provider Blue Box has just announced the completion of their Series B funding round which began in Q4 of 2014.
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Clouding the Enterprise Definition: Verizon Announces Potential 48 hour Outage
January 5, 2015 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
It what many have called a surprising move, cloud provider Verizon has announced to some customers that it will be experiencing a service outage of up to 48 hours. While this doesn’t surprise some who understand the nature of cloud … Read More
Midokura’s SDN Product, MidoNet Becomes Open Source
December 11, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Midokura is a software defined networking company who’s product, MidoNet, aims to provide functionality for Layer 2 through Layer 4 of the OSI model. On November 3rd, Midokura announced that MidoNet has become available under the Apache 2.0 license, … Read More
Is the Rocket Taking off Without Docker?
December 1, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Containers seem to be garnering a lot of attention in recent months, and as Docker poises to move towards strengthening themselves as a commercial organization, some ripples appeared in the somewhat untouched waters of container infrastructure.
CoreOS Announces Rocket
Today … Read More
OpenStack Summit – Great Summary by Red Hat
November 10, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Well titled as “OpenStack 2015 – The year of the enterprise?”, the team at Red Hat have put together a great summary of their experience at the recent OpenStack Summit in Paris. While we often chuckle at the ever famous … Read More
Mirantis and the Art of the Multi-Million Dollar OpenStack Business
October 27, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
As the OpenStack market place continues to grow, and vendors lunge to get a piece of the hot new open cloud customer base, Mirantis has shown many why it is for good reason. Just recently we saw the landmark announcement … Read More
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
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
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
Shellshocked? Better Check! Bash Shell RCE Vulnerability Exposed
September 25, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
Vulnerabilities are becoming a part of our daily email alerts. More technology resources has led to a correlating rise in more attempts to expose and attack those same resources. With many still reeling from the Hearbleed SSL vulnerability that was … Read More
Understanding Docker versus Virtual Machine and How to Combine
September 24, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
The team at RightScale did some A/B testing to illustrate how to deploy applications using docker compared to traditional VM installations. There is a lot of buzz around the Docker container infrastructure, legacy LXC implementations, and options which pit containers … 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
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
