Private Cloud - Virtualization Software
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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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
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
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
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
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
OpenStack Icehouse – Lots of New Changes!
May 23, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack is becoming a more widely known name in virtualization lately, and with good reason. Much like a band that tours small venues for a few years and then suddenly becomes an “overnight success”, OpenStack has the potential to become … Read More
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
How to Build a Private Cloud with OpenStack & RackSpace
July 4, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
RackSpace is a cloud provider that runs everything using OpenStack cloud software. Their software, OpenCenter, makes deployment easier. In this article I’ll run through the initial install. The download is free.
They recommend that you deploy this using either three … Read More
