Azure - Virtualization Software
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Nice Time to Visit Brazil: Azure Opens Up Brazil South Region
June 5, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
I’ve always wanted to visit Brazil, and as of today I can. At least my Azure virtual instances can!
Beginning with Web Sites, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and much more (Full service list here), the new region which debuted in … Read More
SAP Skies are Looking Blue…Azure Blue
May 29, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Long gone are the days where big software companies hold their bare-metal delivery methods close to their chest. We have seen the shift with products from Oracle getting the “supported” moniker on virtualized platforms, so it was both a surprise … Read More
Open Licensing Coming for Microsoft Azure
May 27, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Microsoft has announced that they will add the ability to use Open Licensing to purchase services in their Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The announcement came from Josh Waldo, Senior Director of Cloud Partner Strategy, which is a timely move for … Read More
Managing your Virtual DataCenter – 4 Key Strategies
December 20, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA
While recently studying for VMware Advanced Professional Datacenter Design exam, I had the chance to study documents in the VCAP-DCD blueprint. Some of these documents provide insights into effective strategies to use before, during, and after deploying a Virtual Infrastructure.
Killer Infographics: Download Microsoft’s Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster Series
October 16, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
For years, really good people at Microsoft have spent enormous time creating and making available architectural posters for a number of the company’s products. I’ve always really liked them as they provide a really quick, at-a-glance view of what makes … Read More
Weekly Virtualization Link Round Up: 10/04/2013
October 4, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
So, a lot has happened in the past few weeks. A Dell employee took issue with a Cisco manifesto, VSAN went belly up for a few people, and Microsoft got some love from the Feds in the form of a … Read More
The Future of Virtualization is Emerging… & it’s Cloudy
June 13, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Scott’s latest musings on the “cloud-ification’ of virtualization. What strategy considerations should be on the table?Read More
