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Are you a Server Hugger?

By on December 1, 2014 in Cloud Computing

Question: Are you a Server Hugger? This conversation has come up countless times while at conferences, including VMUGs and VMworld.  Come on, lets be honest, are you a server hugger?  Its mentioned regularly out on twitter.  Duncan Epping was live tweeting from the Benelux VMUG and it was mentioned in a session he attended presented by Andy Steven: So lets ask the question again!  Are you a server hugger?… I would pretty much say yes you are.  Most people who manage IT infrastructure are server huggers.  You know you are, so lets just all admit it.  I will start.  Hello my name is David and I am a server hugger. During a number of my presentations I have given over the years, both myself and Chris Colotti have had this discussion numerous times.  Sometimes between ourselves.  What actually is a server hugger? Now if you google Server Hugger, the majority […]

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Codespaces status

Codespaces is a reminder to us all, not just cloud consumers

By on June 19, 2014 in Cloud Computing

How tragic, Codespaces.com is no longer a viable business.  This is tragic, and a massive shame.  It does serve as a critical reminder that security of our services and data is essential.  It is the most important piece of running any IT service. Personally, I find it very sad that we live in a world where this kind of thing can happen.  The note on codespaces.com website made me feel extremely sad and angry, but its the world we live in.  As an ex-business owner, this was always my biggest worry.  Someone trying to hold me or my business hostage, just for money.  Most people run businesses (especially small or medium businesses) for the passion of what they are doing, and money is a by-product of that passion.  To see this on the screen is extremely sad: However, it does prove to us all that security is key.  When I […]

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vCloud Hybrid Service

vCloud Hybrid Service launches two new offerings

By on May 6, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

Yesterday vCloud Hybrid Service launched two new offerings and released them into the public cloud.  This is of personal interest to me as I was the Tech Marketing lead for these two new releases.  For me, being part of the team that is launching these offerings, and the rapid speed of delivery and growth within VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service gives me great pleasure, and pride.  Anyway, lets get on with the technical stuff. Standard Storage Tier First up is storage tiering.  vCHS now offers two types of storage tier.  SSD Accelerated and Standard.  SSD-Accelerated is exactly that, an SSD-Accelerated tier, that uses SSD Caching to increase the performance.  Standard storage is slightly different, it is just plain old spindle based storage without any SSD Acceleration, resulting in a lower performance.  As The Register puts it “Plain old spinning rust”.  For me, its an important part of cloud, offering multiple types of […]

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Bring your own licenses to the cloud

Bring your own licenses to the cloud

By on April 15, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

A little while ago Gabrie van Zanten (aka Gabes Virtual World) asked me a question about how you license Microsoft products in a cloud? Specifically he wanted to know how VMware states “You can bring your own licenses to the cloud”. Lets take a look at this.  Currently VMware has two cloud offerings: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) and Dedicated Cloud.  The key differences here is that a Virtual Private Cloud is multi-tenant.  You are logically separated from other consumers of the service.  A dedicated cloud on the other hand is each customer is hosted on physically isolated servers, away from other customers.  Its exactly that, its your dedicated cloud.  This has an impact on how you license your apps and OS’s. So back to licensing, how does it differ across the two services: Operating Systems – Microsoft requires all customers on multi-tenant public cloud environments to purchase the Windows Server licenses […]

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AWS Summit Review

AWS Summit Review by a VMware guy – Part 2

By on March 27, 2014 in Cloud Computing

Yesterday I attended the AWS Summit in San Francisco.  I wrote part 1 of my AWS Summit Review series yesterday, and this can be read by clicking here. That article focused on the feel of the conference and gave some details on the keynote. What I want to talk around in Part 2 is the technical sessions I attended, and what I felt about those. Lets start with Session 1: Introduction to AWS I selected this session, as I hardly know anything about AWS EC2.  I created an account in November and deployed a few things but never used it in anger. An interesting area I thought were that they provide different types of service that are optimised for the workload: Compute-Optimized General Purporse Micro INstances Memory Optimized Storage Optimized GPU Instances They are updating the hardware revisions, and have multiple hardware revisions, for example, compute1 (c1) cluster compute 1 […]

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