“Because it simply works” is the most frequent answer to the question “Why would you recommend OpenNebula to a colleague?” that OpenNebula makes to its users in a short survey that tells them how they are doing. Other frequent answers are “Because it is easy to install, maintain and update” or “Because it is easy to customize”. “Rich functionality and stability” and “support for VMware” are also frequently mentioned by the survey respondents.
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Clouducation 101: Consumers, Web Developers & Businesses
Let’s recap: In the past two weeks we have covered the following material: Who I am What my background is Why I love everything IT What the Cloud is What the Public … Last week I ended with a question: How does the Cloud affect me as a consumer, as a business owner and as someone working for a business – ex. a mobile app developer? Let’s jump right in.
Choosing the Right Cloud Storage Options for Businesses
Sanbolic Answers the Question: StorAgility – What Is It and How Do I Achieve it?
During September, Sanbolic Will Also Explain How To, For the First Time, Confidently Move Business Critical Applications into the Public Cloud Wednesday, September 5, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time Sanbolic Webinar: StorAgility™ – W
Enterprise Without Limits: A Blueprint for Organizational Agility
We are a part of a dynamically connected world where consumers are rapidly adopting new technology and dismantling business models in their wake. Disruption, unpredictability and variability happen without warning. The challenge for any organization is to evolve, to adopt new architectures and processes that increase business agility, scalability and governance/compliance and decrease risk. While cloud is complex, the consideration and adoption process can be simplified.
In his General Session, Kevin Hanes, Executive Director, Dell Service & Solutions, talks about a pragmatic approach to realizing the potential of cloud today while building a strong foundation for the future.
Private Cloud 2.0 – Enterprise Cloud Search
In the Enterprise 2.0 white paper I wrote a few years ago, I built on the core concepts of what Andrew McAfee had introduced, primarily the integrated role of Cloud Computing and also the overlap with BPM (Business Process Management). I have started bringing this up to date for 2012 through the concept of Private Cloud 2.0
Architecting Your Cloud: Lessons Learned from 100 CloudStack Deployments
CloudStack has been the platform of choice for more than a hundred public and private production clouds. In his General Session at Cloud New York, Citrix VP Shannon Williams provides an insider view as one of the co-founders of Cloud.com talks about experiences in designing the right architecture for your cloud.
Shannon Williams is VP of Market Development, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix, where he oversees the team responsible for working with enterprise and service provider customers to understand the capabilities of Citrix cloud infrastructure solutions, as well as architect and deploy them. Williams joined Citrix in 2011 when the company acquired Cloud.com, where he served as vice president of worldwide sales. He has more than 10 years of experience in sales and marketing and has held management positions at technology companies such as Solidcore Systems, SeeCommerce and Teros. Williams has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science.
Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the Differences
For years, there has been a feature battle between VMware® vSphere™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V®. In general, vSphere has won the feature battle, although Hyper-V is certainly no slouch.Ultimately, the feature gap will shrink and Hyper-V will become a «good enough» solution for more and more organizations.
In order to help vSphere administrators make the knowledge leap between the two platforms, this whitepaper will introduce you to:
Feature deltas that may exist
Key features in both products
VM mobility and availability
Differences in hypervisor management
Convirture Brings Open Source-Based VM & Cloud Management to VMware
The beta of the new version of ConVirt Enterprise Cloud provides a single tool to manage all current and future virtual and cloud infrastructures, including those based on KVM, Xen, OpenStack, Amazon EC2 and now VMware.
ConVirt is used by IT professionals worldwide to manage virtual data centers and cloud infrastructures. This new version adds VMware to the list of supported technologies. It is based on open source and provides sophisticated management capabilities to operators of heterogeneous data centers that employ multiple technologies and platforms, including major public and private clouds.
Implement a Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solution with EVault CDR 4.0
When it seems like every technology company in the world is throwing the term «Cloud Computing» around it’s refreshing when you can get past the 50,000 foot view of a solution and understand what is really happening. I’ve tried to create a walkthrough of building a cloud disaster recovery from scratch using a real product stack from EVault, a Seagate company.
Perhaps you’ve heard of this new technology floating around the internet called “Cloud Computing” and maybe, just maybe you’ve even thought about using this to satisfy some of your IT needs. Sarcasm aside, leveraging cloud computing services for disaster recovery is an example for how cloud computing can be applied to the business. EVault, a Seagate Company, has a product that helps you create an automated cloud based disaster recovery solution that includes the backup and recovery of your critical applications and data.