The Integration Of vCloud Director with vCloud Automation Center
As I’ve been speaking with various customers about the benefits of VMware’s new vCloud Suite on the Vblock, one persistent question that I’ve been receiving is this – “Is vCloud Automation Center [aka....
View ArticleDelivering The Cloud On A Vblock: A Story In Pictures
One of the early trends I am seeing, in 2013, as I meet with various enterprise customers is the increase in questions around the Cloud. Their questions can generally be summed up as follows: “Should...
View ArticleGo Public (Cloud)!
Back in January, Silicon Angle posted an article highlighting security challenges that Amazon Web Services (AWS) faces as it tries to make inroads into the Enterprise. In particular, the article...
View ArticleWhich Amazon Are You Chasing?
A Lesson From History I am old enough to remember a time when America Online (AOL) was the leader in providing online services and Steve Case, the founder and CEO of AOL, was considered a visionary in...
View ArticleNext Stop… The Open Cloud
Most of my conversation partners on Twitter know that this past Friday was my last day of employment, after 2+ years, at VCE. I am grateful for and humbled by the number of now former colleagues who...
View ArticleTalking About vSphere Integration With OpenStack
I mentioned in my previous post how much I appreciated being able to work with and to learn from really smart people, certainly folks smarter than myself. Well earlier this week, I sat down with...
View ArticleWhy Rackspace For OpenStack
[Disclaimer: The intent of this blog is NOT for it to be a de facto Rackspace corporate blog; they already have a very good one in place. My goal, for the most part, is to share my musings on Cloud...
View ArticleThe Cloud (Or Any Technology) Doesn’t Answer The Why Or The How
Where Vendors Go Wrong If you are an end-user, I am sure you’ve dealt with technology vendors that reminded you more of pushy used car salesmen than trusted advisors. They seem to only care about...
View ArticleThe vCloud Hybrid Service: But Is It A Cloud In Name Only?
The Launch As expected, VMware made a big splash yesterday with their new vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) launch. The goal of vCHS, as CEO Pat Gelsinger stated, is “[to couple] all the value of VMware...
View ArticleThe OpenStack NY User Group: We Are Only As Strong As The Community We Cultivate
The OpenStack Community A primary, if not THE primary, reason for the success of any open-source project is community involvement by vendors and users alike. Community was the driver for the success...
View ArticleGetting Started With OpenStack
I had the opportunity last week to participate in the Cloud Expo in New York City, both as an OpenStack Foundation booth staffer and as a breakout session speaker (more on that later). With IBM as a...
View ArticleOpenStack Compute For vSphere Admins, Part 1: Architectural Overview
One of the most common questions I receive is “How does OpenStack compare with VMware?” That question comes, not only from customers, but from my peers in the vendor community, many of whom have lived...
View ArticleContributing To OpenStack Even If You Are Not A Developer
I had the opportunity recently to join in an OpenStack User Group meetup down in Texas and to participate in a very important discussion on the subject of the “OpenStack Core.” The discussion was...
View ArticleDeploying A HA OpenStack Cloud On Your Laptop
Introduction A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk about OpenStack and High Availability (HA) on the vBrownBag podcast. The slide deck below (since updated) is based on the...
View ArticleCattle Wrangling For Pet Whisperers: Building A Multi-hypervisor OpenStack Cloud
I had the honor of speaking recently to the Minnesota OpenStack User Group in what organizer and networking guru, Kyle Mestery, called their “Massive Minnesota OpenStack Meetup.” Besides having the...
View ArticleDeploy OpenStack (Havana) On Your Laptop Using Vagrant And Chef
Introduction Not long ago, I posted an article outlining how you could install a HA OpenStack environment on your laptop or workstation, using Vagrant with a virtualization tool, such as VirtualBox,...
View ArticleWhat Is VMware Up To With OpenStack?
Introduction As a former vSphere and now OpenStack Architect, I’ve been following with much interest the courtship ritual that VMware has been performing with the OpenStack project. Dan Wendlandt and...
View ArticleOpenStack: The Project, The Products, And The Services
Introduction Recently, my Rackspace colleague, Cody Bunch, and I had the opportunity to sit with Dave Vellante, from Wikibon, to discuss OpenStack in the Enterprise. During the interview, Dave asked...
View ArticleBridging The Gap: Explaining OpenStack To VMware Administrators – The Talk Track
Introduction Recently, my colleague, Cody Bunch (he’s one presenting in bare feet), and I had the privilege of giving a keynote at the New England Virtualization Technology User Group (NE VTUG) Winter...
View ArticleShould OpenStack Stop Chasing AWS?
Introduction The topic of how OpenStack should relate to Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been a source of furious debate in the OpenStack community, with some advocating direct mano-a-mano competition...
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