C12G recently released a Sandbox Appliance for VMware and now they are doing the same for KVM. The appliance image is already in its OpenNebula marketplace but hold your horses and don’t download it just yet. Head to the documentation and download the script that will be used to configure your machines, download the image and start it up.
The requirements now are at least a couple of machines with Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bit. The CPU should support hardware virtualization as we are using KVM here. It is based on the VMware appliance so you’ll be able to develop in it if you need as all the libraries needed for compilation are already there.
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Cloud Computing: Nine Ways the Cloud Changes Users’ Lives at Cloud Expo NY
Today’s end users are always connected, and mobile and social apps have given them the expectation of immediate gratification. Why should enterprise apps be any different? What good is Big Data and real-time computing if you can’t broadcast data to all your end users in milliseconds?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Todd Greene, CEO and co-founder of PubNub, will discuss how companies are using real-time cloud infrastructure to deliver new kinds of killer apps to users. This broad reaching topic will illustrate how the cloud is powering real-time apps across a wide range of industries, including real-time analytics, advertising, massive scale audience participation, linking commerce with presence, and business collaboration that enables live participation and the ability for instant decision-making. Whether you build or support b2b or b2c apps, it’s likely that your users are expecting their apps and websites to connect users to real-time data, collaboration, and immediate gratification. Explore how you can use cloud services like PubNub to deliver «human-perceptive» real-time experiences that scale to millions of users worldwide.
Cloud Computing: FortressITX CEO to Present at Cloud Expo
On June 12, 2012, between 6:20 – 7:05 pm, FortressITX CEO Jason Silverglate will host a technical presentation entitled “Leverage Cloud Technology to Power Your Office,” at the 10th International Cloud Expo in New York City. Consider this presentation your personal “how to” break down of what cloud computing can do for an office environment of any kind.
The presentation will cover the benefits of cloud computing for small business, cloud computing action points, best practices and examples of case studies proving the overall benefits of cloud computing in a corporate setting of any size. Silverglate will show business owners how incorporate hosted PBX, hosted exchange and hosted desktop (virtual desktop integration) technologies into everyday business practices to maximize company efficiency and minimize cost.
Major Trends Drive Call for Change in Data Strategies
The current landscape for data management, backup, and disaster recovery, too often ignores the transition from physical to virtualized environments, and sidesteps the heightened real-time role that data now plays in enterprise.
Businesses clearly need a better approach to their data recovery capabilities — across both their physical and virtualized environments. The current landscape for data management, backup, and disaster recovery (DR), too often ignores the transition from physical to virtualized environments, and sidesteps the heightened real-time role that data now plays in enterprise.
Easy Install of Cloudstack on Defunct Hardware for a Home Lab
To learn more about Cloud IaaS offerings, I painlessly setup Cloudstack, from Citrix, on two (outdated and defunct) DELL Optiplex 740 desktop computers.
Each desktop is configured with 8GB of memory and the processors are VT compatible (meaning they can run virtualization technology software – a hypervisor).
At first attempt, the Cloudstack software would not recognize the internal disk drives. Thinking that my old hardware would not run cloudstack, I researched the non-descript error and decided that the installer was not able to detect the disks because of the pre-existing software installed.
Windows Azure Offerings Are Expanded with New IaaS Offerings
Microsoft announced on June 7th that Windows Azure will be enhanced to include several infrastructure-as-a-service offerings including Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Web Sites and Media Services. These new offerings provide increased flexibility when planning your Private Cloud infrastructure through the introduction of Hybrid scenarios.
Windows Azure Virtual Machines provide the flexibility to inexpensively run Windows and Linux workloads with a variety of resource sizes (ie., Small, Medium, Large, XLarge VMs). In addition, the new Windows Azure Virtual Networking capabilities permit IT professionals to create secure site-to-site VPNs from their datacenters to the VMs they are running in the Azure cloud with no changes to underlying IP addressing. The resulting benefits provide the ability to quickly and securely extend your on-premises datacenter with elastic cloud resources while maintaining a single management toolset, Microsoft System Center, for managing both on-premises and cloud-based VM workloads. This flexibility is ideal for hybrid scenarios that involve the need for some application components to burst temporarily with additional compute resources or involve Internet-facing components that would otherwise be expensive and difficult for a business organization to host in-house.
Cloud Computing: Egenera Makes the Leap to Cloud Management
The way blade pioneer Egenera remembers things it invented converged infrastructure before it had to abandon its x86 BladeFrame servers, switches and storage for software based on its trusty Processor Area Network (PAN) Manager.
It is now making the obligatory move from other people’s virtualized blade servers to the private cloud still focused on blades.
Egenera has yet to make the great leap to rack servers. Blades, according to CEO Peter Manca, are more uniform and – although racks dominate – blades are faster growing.
Cloud Computing: Red Hat Recasts CloudForms as Hybrid Cloud Manager
Perhaps you will vaguely remember that a year ago CloudForms was supposed to be an infrastructure-as-a-service platform from Red Hat.
If you don’t it’s just as well because it’s not anymore.
It had to give way when Red Hat officially embraced OpenStack as an IaaS platform in April and became OpenStack’s single biggest contributor while it develops its own commercial OpenStack distribution.
That meant that Red Hat had to think up something else to do with CloudForms and so, when the widgetry hit GA Wednesday, it was recast as an open hybrid cloud management platform – largely, it appears, because it makes use of APIs in Deltacloud, the open source project Red Hat sent to live at Apache – that also happens to create hybrid IaaS resources in a corporate data center and on a public cloud like, say, Amazon or VMware
Cloud Cruiser Announces Availability of Cloud Cost Intelligence Solution
Cloud Cruiser’s new software products provide cost transparency, chargeback, and business intelligence analytics.
Cloud Cruiser announced at HP Discover in Las Vegas this week the general release of two new cloud cost intelligence solutions for HP CloudSystem.
The new software products integrate Cloud Cruiser’s cost analytics platform with HP CloudSystem Matrix, CloudSystem Enterprise, and Cloud Service Automation to provide cost transparency, chargeback, and business intelligence (BI) analytics for provisioned resources.
Building Killer Apps with Big Data
One thing that gets lost in the general Big Data hubbub is the critical question of apps. Big Data can provide stunning business insights but unless those insights are embodied into an application that can galvanize new business behaviors they are not worth much.
VMware has been a thought leader in the area of cloud application platforms for some time. Now we are turning our attention to the intersection of Big Data and Cloud Computing.