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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
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
Stopping the Bleeding with CloudPhysics
July 25, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
You’ve seen the logo above lots in the news over the course of the last year. One of the very interesting thing about the Heartbleed vulnerability was the incredible breadth of its effect. It was estimated that over 70% of … Read More
Physical Networks in the Virtual Networking World
July 19, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
I’m a big fan of the work of Dr. Bruce Davie. For those who know him already I imagine you will share this thought with me. Bruce works now as a Principal Engineer at VMware after the acquisition of Nicira 2 … Read More
Magic Quadrant for Virtualization – No Big Surprises
July 18, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As more shifts happen in the virtualization market place, you would imagine that there would be significant movement in the space around the Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) for x86 Server Virtualization. Ironically, there was little to be surprised by in … Read More
Digital Ocean Expanding to New UK Region
July 15, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
The team at Digital Ocean have opened the doors on their new UK region LON1 in London to expand their current service offering into 5 active regions. The SSD-backed cloud provider has seen lots of expansion lately within existing data … Read More
Red Hat Unveils Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5
July 8, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack continues to draw attention, and Red Hat has announced the latest in their Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform with version 5 of the suite. This marks a good day for the long time OpenStack advocates, and shows that … Read More
Welcome VMware to the Jersey Shore: vCHS Opens a New Jersey Data Center
July 7, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
This is definitely not the reality show that you would expect, but it is a strong move by VMware to continue to expand their vCloud Hybrid Service footprint by opening up their latest data center in the North-East region.
As … Read More
Bursting on the Cheap: AWS Launches New Low Cost Burstable EC2 Offering
July 7, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
The inherent advantage of the cloud deployment methodology is that it leverages elastic resources that can be consumed on-demand, through a self-service portal. There are two key ingredients to that formula which are the first two.
Elastic Burst
While as … Read More
VMware NSX, VSAN, and OpenStack
July 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Interoperability is a pretty important feature as we see more work being done on multi-hypervisor, multi-product environments. VMware has done some good work to ensure that they are looking ahead to bring these disparate environments closer together.
NSX, VSAN and … Read More
Puppet on Azure? Absolutely!
July 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
We’ve talked about Puppet automation here, and as I am a fan of cloud environments it is really nice to see the great Puppet and Azure integration. But the real fun is being able to host your Puppet infrastructure inside … Read More
HP Releases OpenStack Reference Architecture: 15 Pages of OpenStack Goodness!
July 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Many companies produce reference architectures as a way to provide specific guidance on how to deploy infrastructure and applications. By using reference architecture designs from a vendor, we know down to the part number what a working, supported design can … Read More
VMware Updates NSX Platform: NSX 6.0.5 for vSphere Now Available
July 3, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Fans of the VMware NSX platform are going to be pleased as we see the latest iteration of the network virtualization platform from virtualization software maker VMware. As we see the point release update hit the web site, there are … Read More
I’m Over Here Now: Moving Azure Services to a New Region
July 2, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
The cloud is touted as the final destination for many application environments, but while we imagine that we can just put the content and data into the cloud, there are valid reasons why data locality and geo-location will come into play … Read More
Public Beta? Yes Please! VMware Opens The Door on vSphere Beta Program
July 1, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Have you ever wanted to take part in the process of shaping the next version of a vendor’s software offering? Now is our chance as VMware customers to do just that! VMware has opened up its beta program to customers … Read More
A Little More Docker, A Lot More Disruption
July 1, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Docker continues to get lots of attention on it as we watch the product and surrounding ecosystem grow more every day. There are many lessons being learned inside the Docker camp, as well as by those who are starting to … Read More
F5 Goes Hourly: New Pricing Model for AWS
June 30, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
More and more vendors are seeing the value of moving to hourly pricing which is aligning to practices that cloud providers have latched on to for some time. Virtual machine instances have long been available for hourly consumption which is … Read More
The Bits and Bytes of Traffic Shaping in VMware
June 30, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Remember when we first learned that bits and bytes are based on 1024, not 1000? Sometimes we can get confused when talking about managing bandwidth in “megs” but it is megabits, and also that a while we use a 1000 … Read More
Inside the Cloud Foundry Re-Write
June 29, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
We are going to go back a bit into June to revisit something that made some waves at the recent Cloud Foundry Summit in San Francisco which took place from June 9-11. As the PaaS space heats up, there was … Read More
What Makes a Great Cloud Automation Tool?
June 27, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
When evaluating tools for automation, we typically look at them through the eyes of a systems administrator. It is important that we use a more broad set of criteria to evaluate an automation suite though, because more options are becoming … Read More
MongoDB Coming to a Cloud Near You
June 26, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
The MongoDB team has set the ball rolling to launch their popular NoSQL platform into the Microsoft Azure and Google cloud platforms. This is a powerful move for the company that marks another way that they are leading over many … Read More
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