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Cloud Computing focuses upon how to construct, secure, manage, monitor and use public IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS clouds.

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Vegas as a Service

June 17, 2013
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CloudComputing

Recently when I was in Las Vegas for HP Discover I realized that the Venetian/Palazo complex is really a cloud: Vegas as a Service. IT could learn alot from Las Vegas actually and I think that each hotel complex is a private cloud and that taken together the strip is one big cloud. Granted it…

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The Potential of the Dell PowerEdge VRTX

June 14, 2013
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Dell PowerEdge VRTX

At first glance the Dell PowerEdge VRTX looks like a small blade chassis. Look deeper and you will see a ton of potential in this software-defined world.

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SDDC Automation and Orchestration

June 11, 2013
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DataCenterVirtualization

The Orchestration and Automation layer of the Software Defined Data Center is where the benefits of the SDDC is translated are translated into working applications for end users and business constituents. Every Cloud Management Platform relies upon either a script or one of these automation frameworks to provision and configure the actual end user services…

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Public Cloud Use Cases

June 4, 2013
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CloudComputing

There are different public cloud use cases. Here at The Virtualization Practice we moved our datacenter from the north to the south part of the country and utilized the cloud to host the workloads during the transition. Edward Haletky, yesterday posted about Evaluating the Cloud: Keeping your Cloud Presence and presented the question and his…

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Evaluating the Cloud: Keeping your Cloud Presence

June 3, 2013
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CloudComputing

As you know we have a cloud presence; we have had one for several months. Now we are evaluating the cloud to determine whether to maintain that cloud presence or move back to our local data center. We also documented some early teething problems within this cloud presence. What should be our evaluation the cloud…

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Software Defined Data Center Cloud Management

May 31, 2013
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SDDC.Management.Stack.Reference.Architecture

The Cloud Management layer of the Software Defined Data Center is where the flexibility of the SDDC is translated into tangible benefits for the business constituents of the virtualized data center, the private clouds, the hybrid clouds and the public clouds. Without a robust Cloud Management layer, the IT Operations flexibility of the SDDC cannot…

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My Thoughts on the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service

May 29, 2013
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CloudComputing

My thoughts on the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service: There was an announcement made last week about the new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service which will bring VMware Public Cloud Service to the masses later this year. There are a couple of posts from our own Virtualization Practice analysts which can be found here and here. Since…

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VMware vCloud Hybrid Service

May 23, 2013
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VMware100x30

On Tuesday VMware announced their answer to the public cloud: the vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). One of the biggest hurdles for the roughly 500,000 VMware customers has been that their on-premise, private infrastructure isn't directly interoperable with any sizable public clouds, like Amazon AWS or RackSpace. If you want to move towards a public or…

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Software Defined Data Center Analytics

May 22, 2013
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SDDC.Management.Stack.Reference.Architecture

Software Defined Data Center Analytics will play a critical role in keeping your SDDC up and running with acceptable performance. Multiple real time data feeds used across a variety of management solutions represent the only viable method to keeping up with the rate of change in the SDDC.

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