Is it too confusing to have two different open cloud stacks? I guess not, as long as they're clearly differentiated and targeted at different use cases... Overall, CloudStack is better packaged for enterprise adoption, especially in environments not already familiar with open source. Its … [Read more...]
Cloud Crossroads
January 3, 2011 by 1 Comment
I feel like I am at a crossroads… and trying to figure out which direction to go. In my life, I strive to know about all kinds of things. Heck, in college, I went through 4-5 different majors because I was so interested in all of them. Computer Science and a Biology minor won out. So, when I come … [Read more...]
Is My Favorite vSphere Tool Going Away?
August 24, 2010 by 4 Comments
The following post was contributed by Dwayne Lessner (@DLink7). While going through the release notes for vSphere 4.1 I noticed one of my favourite vSphere tools be might be going away. vCenter Update Manager (VUM) 4.1 and its subsequent update releases are the last releases to support scanning … [Read more...]
No Longer Functional
June 15, 2010 by 2 Comments
Having worked in Corporate Infrastructure for many years, fighting the good fight and trying to get the enemy to conform to best practise and generally think beyond the next line of code that they are writing, I surrender! I throw the towel in! I'd like to take an example without being too … [Read more...]
Bisectional Bandwidth. And why L2MP and Trill/RBridges is vital to the Virtualised Data Centres.
June 4, 2010 by 1 Comment
When measuring the capacity or bandwidth of the your links in the data centre for Layer 2 connections, you often realise that most of your bandwidth is shut down by Spanning Tree. In terms of resiliency and redundancy, this is a valuable feature, but at what cost ? How much bandwidth (and money) is … [Read more...]
Podcast 7: Stack Wars Roundtable 2
May 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This week's Tech Field Day roundtable discussion is an audio chat on the subject of stack wars - the creation of all-in-one "stacks" of IT equipment by the major vendors. These stacks have been quite a hot topic of discussion both inside Gestalt IT and in the community as a whole. The discussion … [Read more...]
Rodos on Stack Wars
April 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Why is this happening? I think a number of factors have lead to the "stack" or the return to the mainframe model. One of these is virtualisation. Virtualisation has in many ways collapsed the different components of compute, networking and storage into a blob where differences in each individual … [Read more...]
The Stack Wars Have Begun!
April 19, 2010 by 9 Comments
Just as public cloud computing is beginning to catch on, the enterprise data center world has been shaken up by the biggest IT product vendors. Rather than sit back and watch their wares commoditized, companies like Cisco, EMC, HP, and now HDS are stepping up to the plate with integrated "stacks" … [Read more...]
BFI: Brute Force and Ignorance
March 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
BFI is an acronym which gets thrown around a bit and could stand for many things Brute Force and Ignorance is one...but I've come up with a hopefully a new one which goes along with it, Big F**king Infrastructure. And this is my problem with Cloud at present; there seems to be a trend around at … [Read more...]
Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s….The Cloud!
March 2, 2010 by 4 Comments
Why, oh why, oh why, has every man and his dog started calling everything Cloud? Cloud Hosting, Cloud Apps, Cloud Services? Is it me, or was it only 6 months ago that these were called Virtual Hosting, Web Apps, Web Services? What's changed? In my eyes, nothing! I hadn't really noticed this until … [Read more...]