Who is Responsible for PaaS Cloud Application Performance?

April 12, 2013
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PerformanceManagement

Customers's using PaaS Cloud offerings like Heroku are clearly reliant upon both Heroku and partnering monitoring vendors like New Relic to provide complete information about PaaS Cloud Application Performance. Being fully transparent in this regard is likely to prove to be both a technical and a business challenges for the PaaS cloud vendors.

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How VirtuStream does Cloud Security

April 11, 2013
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On the 4/4 Virtualization Security Podcast, Pete Nicoletti, the chief information security officer for Virtustream, joined us to discuss how VirtuStream does cloud security. VirtuStream runs some of, if not the largest SAP installations in the cloud for very large enterprises around the world. The key to VirtuStream is that they are an Enterprise Cloud…

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Technology Update from the Field

April 10, 2013
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CloudComputing

There have been a spate of press releases and news in and around the industry over the last few weeks that bear further consideration. They could actually solve some of your current cloud and virtual environment issues while opening new doors for future expansion. As an architect and analyst I find these technology very interesting…

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How Do You Define a Hybrid Cloud?

April 9, 2013
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CloudComputing

How do you define a hybrid cloud? It seems that my idea of what a hybrid cloud is does not seem to match what I find as the current definition of a hybrid cloud.

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News: GoGrid and Racemi Start the Cloud Onboarding Arms Race

April 9, 2013
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CloudComputing

The arms race to make it easy for one cloud vendor to onboard workloads from another vendor has been started by GoGrid and Racemi. This will likely lead to a world where it is easy to move workloads around between private clouds and public clouds of various types. If this happens then we are headed…

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Caching through out the Stack

April 8, 2013
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DataCenterVirtualization

One sure way to improve performance is to cache the non-dynamic data of any application. We did this to improve the overall performance of The Virtualization Practice website. However, there are many places within the stack to improve overall performance by caching, and this got me to thinking of all the different types. At the…

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Digesting The Latest VCE News: Vblock 100 and Vblock 200

April 5, 2013
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DataCenterVirtualization

On February 21, 2013 VCE announced the re-addition of smaller Vblock models, Vblock 100 and Vblock 200, once again allowing the product line to cover the small & medium-sized opportunities in the market.

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SDDC and the Ever Expanding Control Plane

April 4, 2013
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ITasaService

The software defined data center has the potential to expand the control plane well outside of anyone's control by the simple fact that we do not yet have a unified control mechanism for disparate hardware (networking, storage, and compute), for disparate hypervisors (vSphere, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V), new types of hypervisors (storage and networking), and new…

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Security is not compliance and compliance will not get you security. Or does it?

April 3, 2013
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VirtualizationSecurity

Security is not compliance and compliance will not get you security. At least that is what I hear from security teams. Conversations with security focal team members from non-security focal people can be quite interesting and has its unique challenges and hurtles to overcome. You can find yourself speaking the same language but not fully…

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