VMware vSphere Client for iPad & vCMA (vCenter Mobile Access)
Thought I would give the VMware client for iPad a try. You can find more details at VMware labs in the flings area VMware Labs Flings for vCMA There is also a vCloud client for iPad which integrates to...
View ArticleCloud Backup and Disaster Recovery with AWS EC2 API Tools
As you may know the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) platform provides a set of API Tools. You can perform a variety of functions but the one I recently tried was: “VM Import/Export enables you...
View ArticleCloud Backup and Disaster Recovery with EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware...
To assist with simple hybrid cloud deployments, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) platform provides a plug-in for VMware vCenter called the EC2 VM Import Connector. This plug-in is simple to...
View ArticleCloud Service Modelling Tool
There is no doubt that the term Cloud is interpreted differently by many. In my opinion there are some common characteristics of Cloud which define why the adoption of this way to operate is so...
View ArticleVMware buys DynamicOps
Is this another bubble era? There definitely is a lot of mergers and acquisitions occurring, however I think vendors and Cloud adopters are taking a pragmatic approach and are not rushing in. VMware is...
View ArticleRackspace with Openstack – Private Cloud Reference Architecture
I just noticed a tweet from a friend of mine Jamie. The link is below and I found it very interesting. You see there are many types of Clouds, however the two mainstream are Private Enterprise and...
View ArticleCloud Service Modelling Tool – Update 1
So it has been a few weeks, and in amoungst other things I have made some progress on the Cloud Service Modelling Tool project. Here is a list of what is achieved: Objects modeled complete with...
View ArticleWhat is the Cloud?
This is likely one of the most frequently asked questions in IT today; and if you do not think this to be the case it is because you likely already have an opinion, or think it is hype. Well guess …...
View ArticleVMworld 2012 – recorded keynote demonstrations.
VMworld 2012 San Francisco started well with the usual fanfare, but in particular the CTO Steve Herrod keynote was interesting. I thought it was good to capture the live demonstration of the newly...
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