Tag Archives: Virtualization
AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced. Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading
AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption
A couple of weeks ago I posted about Amazon’s continued rapid release cycle and tallied up their releases by year. I think it’s even more interesting to look at where these feature releases are happening by service. The stacked graph … Continue reading
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Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger
Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud. Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture. This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying … Continue reading
Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?
As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate. Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else. Some consider “cloud computing” to … Continue reading
Cloud Computing Is Green?
Great time at the OpSource SaaS Summit 2009 today where I made the case that cloud computing is green by virtue of the efficiencies it drives. I think you’ll find this an interesting presentation as some information on ServePath / … Continue reading
GoGrid Quietly Releases Larger Servers
We quietly released 4 & 8GB servers today. There will be a press release early next week. Readers of my blog get this early tidbit. ;) The release includes 4GB 64-bit servers with 3 CPU cores for Linux and Windows … Continue reading
VM Image Sprawl in Real Life
A while back, Geva Perry and I were chatting about the issue of virtual machine image sprawl (Google Search), which is really little more than an extension of not-so-new traditional physical server sprawl problem. It’s hard to get really hard … Continue reading
Virtualization is not ‘The Answer’ for Clouds
There is a myth going around about virtualization and cloud computing. It’s expressed in a variety of ways, but the takeaway is always the same: “Public clouds are big virtual server clouds.” Sounds good, but untrue once you look under … Continue reading
“Auto-magical” Scaling
Rails doesn’t scale, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud does, but wait you need Scalr to actually scale. So… What is ‘scaling‘? Everyone’s an expert on it these days it seems. It’s talked about in terms of languages, … Continue reading
