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VMware should merge CloudFoundry with OpenStack

August 3, 2012

We suggest that to ensure CloudFoundry's dominance, VMware should merge the dominant Open Source IaaS and PaaS initiatives into a single Foundation.

Enter the FrankenCloud: Or Do we really care about the Hypervisor?

June 28, 2012

By Edward Haletky

There has been quite a lot of twitter traffic about the FrankenCloud recently: A cloud with more than one type of hypervisor underneath it. One example, is to build a cloud using Hyper-V three and vSphere, both managed through Microsoft System Center. Another example, is to build a cloud using Hyper-V, KVM, and vSphere all…

News: Piston Cloud and Gridcentric Partner to Deliver First Commercial OpenStack VDI Platform

June 27, 2012

By Simon Bramfitt

Piston Cloud Computing raised a few eyebrows on Tuesday with the announcement that it was extending its Piston Enterprise OS (PentOS) to provide a platform for hosting virtual desktops (VDI) through an exclusive licensing deal with Toronto-based Gridcentric for its innovative Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) technology.

News: Virtualizing the Last Mile

May 16, 2012

By Edward Haletky

There is a class of applications that is extremely difficult to virtualize. This group consists of graphics intensive applications such as ProEngineer, Photoshop, and pretty much anything that requires a GPU to perform well. Graphics intensive applications make up a list of applications that are usually too big or expensive to virtualize. The last mile…

News: Piston Cloud does CloudFoundry on OpenStack

May 1, 2012

By Mike Norman

We asked OpenStack recently whether they were going to do PaaS, they said that this was happening in the community around them, and today we have an announcement of one way of doing it: with VMware's Open Source CloudFoundry.

OpenStack – Is it now Safe to Get Involved?

April 30, 2012

By Mike Norman

The OpenStack Governance Model is changing to remove the dominance of Rackspace by establishing an independent foundation. We were very critical of the old model, so we spoke to Rackspace to understand what was happening.

What is Considered Too Big for Virtualization?

April 25, 2012

By Edward Haletky

A customer recently asked me, can we virtualize our Tier 1 App that receives 7Billion requests per day? My initial response was, on how many servers? Their answer was 15. This is quite a shocking set of numbers to consider. Add into this numbers such as 150K sessions per second, the need for a firewall,…

Migrating to the Cloud: OpenStack or vCloud?

April 24, 2012

By Edward Haletky

We, here at The Virtualization Practice, are getting ready to have a cloud presence. Since we 'eat our own dogfood' with a 100% Virtual Environment, we are gearing up to move some of those workloads into a hybrid cloud. We already use some cloud resources, but now is the time to look at other workloads.…

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VMware should merge CloudFoundry with OpenStack

Enter the FrankenCloud: Or Do we really care about the Hypervisor?

News: Virtualizing the Last Mile

OpenStack – Is it now Safe to Get Involved?

What is Considered Too Big for Virtualization?

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