After a busy day in London I returned home to read the news of issues in one of Amazon’s US data centre locations causing problems with EC2 and database (RDS) instances. It seems the services of many Internet companies were affected including Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite and FourSquare, Is it [...]
Vodafone (UK mobile phone network) are blaming today’s outage to a large number of their customers on a break-in at their data centre in Basingstoke. There are no specific press releases on their website (this link fails badly) however comments on Twitter indicate tens of thousands of customers may be affected.
Amazon have announced the availability of a feature that allows vSphere virtual machines (as VMDKs) to be imported into AWS. Today the feature is restricted to systems running Windows 2008 Server Sp2 but will be expanded in the future. Now this concept sounds great but there’s a major drawback here [...]
Before IP Expo this year, I was invited to a Q&A session with Zane Adam, Microsoft General Manager for Azure. I’ve not posted any video from the event (yet). Fortunately Microsoft have saved me the effort and posted a few clips online. Here’s one video with a few interesting questions.
This is a guest post from Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO and co-founder of Gluster Inc.
In the virtualization foot race, the server has clearly been playing the role of the hare, with storage—a.k.a., the tortoise—bringing up the rear. The technology innovation in server virtualization got a lengthy headstart on storage and has [...]
This year’s IP Expo at Earls Court in London has a real buzz about it. I dropped in yesterday and managed to get a quick interview with Simon Hansford, founder of Attenda Ltd, a company offering cloud-based application managed services. We’ve seen Simon on many a 3Par promotional video (and one of the [...]
I have to disagree with the premise of Chuck Hollis’ recent post on Kit Cars. If you haven’t read the article (and I urge you to do so), it’s a blatant sell on the benefits of vBlock over “build it yourself” solutions that up until 12 months ago customers (and EMC) were quite [...]
Last week I was invited to attend HP’s Cloud Computing Tech Day in Cupertino. Like all of these events, it didn’t last a single day but was spread over 1.5 days on 9/10 September. I’ll freely admit that Cloud is not my main area of expertise, however I was pleased to be invited to this [...]
Over the last month or so I’ve been building a new blog site for my virtualisation discussions. If you are reading this post, then congratulations! You’ve found my site. I already write on storage at www.thestoragearchitect.com but I wanted to segment out the virtualisation part of my work and set some clear boundaries between some [...]
At the beginning of this year, VMware announced they were to acquire Zimbra, a provider of email and collaboration software, from Yahoo. Although the move was widely reported, it wasn’t on the face of it the most strategic of VMware’s moves. The acquisition does provide VMware with more access into the [...]
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