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Enterprises Are Saying They Like Their Clouds Private
June 25, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As cloud punditry continues to rise up in the big conversation about the “race to zero” on pricing, and who should be using who’s API, the real conversation about enterprise cloud adoption is happening in the board room, and the … Read More
The Cloud is Not Perfect: Microsoft Exchange Online Suffers Big Outage
June 25, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
In a world where we are striving for the elusive Five 9 (99.999%) uptime, the idea of a 9 hour outage to a cloud service provider is something that doesn’t sit well with many people. Imagine how Microsoft feels as … Read More
CloudPhysics: Big Analytics, Big Announcement!
June 24, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
CloudPhysics has been a great story to watch as they’ve grown their groundbreaking data center analytics offering into a phenomenal product. Marrying the big data pool of analytics from data centers around the world and a simplified, intuitive interface, they … Read More
Dell Decides to Go Web-Scale; Inks Deal With Nutanix
June 24, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Hyper-converged platform leader Nutanix has just closed a deal to be an OEM partner with Dell and to run their leading NOS software in the Dell XC series of appliances.
What’s the Deal With Web-Scale?
While it has a buzzword … Read More
Next Generation Virtualization Admins: The Policy Makers
June 23, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
I’ve been an advocate for virtualization since the moment I first laid my hands on a VMware install. Prior to that I had dabbled in Citrix desktop and application virtualization, and since those days we have seen quantum leap movement … Read More
Facebook Drives a Wedge Between Network Vendors
June 23, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
While network virtualization has been dominating the headlines lately, there is something that will definitely get some airtime among networking pundits in the coming weeks as Facebook launches its new whitebox networking gear nicknamed “Wedge”.
Facebook says “Your not the … Read More
Seeing the Big Picture: VMware Horizon 6 Networking
June 20, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
When we deploy products in our environments, we often overlook some of the important factors such as network topology and TCP/UDP port mapping. Ultimately we will figure these things out in practice as we watch traffic bouncing off of firewalls … Read More
Puppet Investors Re-Up With 40M$ Series E Funding
June 20, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Automation and configuration management superstar Puppet Labs has gone to the market for a Series E funding round of 40 Million dollars. This brings their total funding since inception up to 86 Million dollars. Just in case you were worried … Read More
VMware Horizon 6: It’s Here!
June 19, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Recently, VMware announced the next iteration of the VDI and Application mobility suite Horizon 6. During the beta, some organizations had a chance to test the product and help feed back usage details to VMware which led to the full … Read More
OnMetal: Single-Tenant Cloud the Rackspace Way
June 19, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Rackspace has announced something that will be exciting many customers where may have been on the fence about multi-tenant cloud and the concerns that they have around them. Today on the Rackspace blog was the story of OnMetal, a new way … Read More
Hybrid is the New Cloud
June 18, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
While many many cloud advocates have been trumpeting the benefits of public cloud infrastructure, the case for a cloud model in an on-premises deployment has been gaining strong adoption. Beyond just hosting our own clouds in an on-premises data center, the … Read More
Digital Ocean Wading Into IPv6 Waters
June 18, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Cloud hosting provider Digital Ocean has announced that they are making the jump to IPv6 across all of their data centers in what some call a bold move, while others recognize the inevitability of this type of a shift.
Are … Read More
Gartner MQ For Data Center Networking: VMware Vision, Cisco Challenge, Arista Surprises
June 17, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
While those intimate with the data center networking industry may not have been surprised by the results, it does show the shift in what is happening as Gartner releases its latest Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking which will also … Read More
BYO…Key? Amazon S3 to Support Customer-Provided Keys
June 17, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Have you ever heard the phrase “given the keys to the kingdom”? With all of the focus on encryption in the cloud storage world, it was with great joy that Amazon released an option to use customer provided keys to … Read More
Containers Versus Virtual Machines? Not Really
June 16, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
With all the heat on Docker and container virtualization lately, a popular question is whether containers will replace virtual machines as the de facto standard way to deploy virtual instances in on-premises and cloud environments.
Not Versus, Think of it … Read More
NFS APD No More! The Long Awaited Patch Has Arrived
June 16, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Shortly after VMware release their vSphere 5.5 Update 1 release to answer to an outstanding Heartbleed vulnerability, something happened and the Twittersphere lit up with tweets like what you see above.
APD – The NFS Issue on 5.5 U1
When … Read More
VMware NSX Pricing Unveiled: What Are Your Thoughts?
June 13, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
One of the most asked questions about VMware NSX has definitely been around the pricing of the product. VMware has stayed relatively quiet as they moved through the first portion of their general availability release of their landmark SDN product.
Azure Locality and the IPv4 Issue
June 13, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As we highlighted here recently with an article regarding the upcoming end of IPv4 address allocations from ICANN, this has become a real issue in the internet as highlighted by a recent issue in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
My US … Read More
When Zero Trust is a Good Thing: VMware NSX Security
June 12, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
As firewalls and security management become more integrated with virtual environments, there are big changes happening in how we design, deploy, and manage these products. VMware NSX is neatly integrated within the VMware virtualization platform as you can imagine, but … Read More
VMware, DevOps, and Private Cloud: Bridging From Virtualization to Private Cloud
June 12, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As a proponent for automation, orchestration, and private cloud, I was pleased with this great video from VMware which helps to tell the story very effectively on what the advantages are to embracing these methodologies.
As the header image shows … Read More
vCHS Disaster Recovery as a Service: Overview With Cormac Hogan
June 11, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
Cormac Hogan, Storage Architect for the Integration Engineering Team at VMware, has written a great post about the new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) Disaster Recover as a Service (DRaaS). If you didn’t get lost in the acronyms already, you … Read More
Docker Comes in Blue; Azure Blue That is!
June 11, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
You’ve been seeing some Docker news coming from us here at Virtualization Software, so it seems fitting to add this exciting news to what has been coming. Along with the recent expansion of Microsoft into the Brazil South Region region, there … Read More
Containerize Yourself: Google and Docker are a Powerful Pair
June 10, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Quite often referred to as the new darling in virtualization and cloud, Docker has just launched their official 1.0 release at DockerCon and it is nicely timed as we see more Docker news coming from all around.
Google and Docker … Read More
HP Helion Private Cloud For Public Sector
June 10, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Virtualization and cloud ecosystems are taking over the news lately. As conference season is in full force now, the announcements are going to be coming out at a fast and furious pace.
Among the recent announcements, I was struck by … Read More
Marvin: VMware Hyper-Converged Platform?
June 9, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
This is no paranoid android, but it may be making some of VMware’s converged and hyper-converged hardware partners a little paranoid.
With the very recent trademark application, VMware may be signaling a very interesting expansion of the previous software-only company, … Read More
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