David Hill

Object Storage What is it?

By admin on October 9, 2014 in vCloud Air

During VMworld their was a lot of talk around the announcement of VMware vCloud Air Object Storage. This is a major milestone for VMware’s Cloud Services offering, and provides a lot of capabilities customers have been asking for. You can read the Tech Preview Blog Article here. However, since VMworld a lot of people have been asking me “Object Storage What is it? and why would I use it?”. Not everyone has heard of Object Storage, let alone started consuming it, so I thought now would be a good opportunity to share with people what I have been using Object Storage for. I have been using Object Storage offerings for over 4 years now. Ever since I discovered that my Iomega (now Lenovo) PX-4 could automatically backup to Amazon S3, I have been using it for a backup service. As always, when you want to know a description about something, […]

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VMworld Barcelona 2014 Schedule

By admin on October 8, 2014 in VMworld

I am putting the final touches to my presentations for VMworld Barcelona 2014. Its an exciting time, and I am looking forward to presenting these sessions again. They scored really well in the US, so I hope that they will be great, valuable and informative sessions for everyone. Session Number Session Title Abstract Date / Time HBC1533 How to build a Hybrid Cloud – Steps to Extend your Datacenter This session will help attendees understand the various steps to build and extended datacenter to vCloud Hybrid Service. Generally, speaking customers find it easier to view the vCHS cloud as just another datacenter. However instead of being physical it is all software defined and available on demand. We will leverage examples and use cases from current customers, as well as, review a specific setup the vCHS Technical Marketing team has built in a “Customer” Lab. We will also explore the networking […]

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VMware vCloud Air OnDemand Beta – Sign up now

By admin on August 28, 2014 in vCloud Air

At VMworld this week, VMware announced the Beta of the new VMware vCloud Air OnDemand offering. VMware vCloud Air OnDemand Beta VMware vCloud Air OnDemand is the new pay-as-you-go offering that will allow consumers to pay for what they use and simply charge it to their credit cards. This model provides a very simple and effective way to spin up new workloads and applications quickly and easily, without the need to raise purchase orders. The beta is open to anyone to register, and then people will be selected based on qualification and notified. You can read more about the press release on VMware vCloud Air OnDemand beta here Sign up now! To sign up for the beta follow this link: http://vcloud.vmware.com/service-offering/core-compute-services/ondemand

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VMworld 2014 Must See Cloud sessions

By admin on July 28, 2014 in VMworld

As we get ever closer to VMworld, the usual Must See session lists are coming out in the blogosphere. I don’t want to replicate the work that those people have already done, so I would recommend reading Duncan Epping’s list over at Yellow-Bricks. Its the most interesting list I have seen so far. Read it here. I already published my session list a while back, so if you want to see what I am presenting specifically please click here. I wont be plugging my own sessions here, you can decide if you want to attend them. So whats the purpose of this article then? Well, as most people know now, I am working in the cloud services business unit at VMware. I wanted to highlight some cool sessions that if your interested in what you can do with clouds, are worth attending. These sessions really show the value and the […]

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Leverage multiple Cloud Storage Tiers

By admin on July 23, 2014 in vCloud Air

Over the past few months I have been working on a number of projects within the vCloud Hybrid Service. One of these projects has been working with Storage Tiers in the cloud. Recently vCloud Hybrid Service launched new tier of storage Standard Storage. Offering multiple storage tiers is a critical part of delivering cloud services to consumers who needed different levels of service. Multiple Cloud Storage Tiers I wanted to link to a couple of articles over on the VMware vCloud blog that I think are important to read and understand when considering how to architect your cloud workloads. VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Standard Storage Tier Mix and Match Storage Tiers The two articles above really demonstrate the power of how you can architect your workloads to leverage different cost models, based on your requirements for performance vs cost, and how simple it is to implement these deployments into Infrastructure […]

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