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The Big Data Back End for the SDDC Management Stack

March 20, 2013
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SDDC.Management.Stack.Reference.Architecture

The SDDC and the Cloud are going to require a new SDDC Management Stack that will need to be based upon a multi-vendor big data datastore. There will likely be on-premise and cloud hosted version of these datastores. Splunk, VMware, New Relic, The Pivotal Initiative, CloudPhysics, AppNeta, and Boundary are all excellent hypothetical suppliers of…

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Public Cloud Reality: Do we Stay or Do We Go?

March 19, 2013
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CloudComputing

Soon the backup power will be available for our new datacenter and the redesign to make use of VMware vCloud Suite is nearing completion. Soon, our full private cloud will be ready for our existing workloads. These workloads however now run within a XenServer based public cloud.  So the question is, do we stay in…

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EMC and VMware’s Pivotal Moment

March 15, 2013
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CloudComputing

EMC and VMware’s pivotal moment has officially spun off and the Pivotal Initiative, a big data and cloud platform company is slated to go public according to EMC CEO Joe Tucci while speaking with investors at an event in New York. EMC’s chief strategist and ex-CEO of VMware, Paul Maritz, who is leading the Pivotal…

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VMware Fleshes Out SDN Strategy with NSX

March 14, 2013
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VMware100x30

VMware has added some significant meat to the bones of its Software Defined Data Center Strategy with the announcement of the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Platform. NSX represents the combination of the previous VMware network virtualization technology (VXLAN) with the technology that came from the acquisition of Nicira.

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Cloud Conversations: Tweetchat and Serendipity

March 13, 2013
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VirtualizationSecurity

The 3/7 Virtualization Security Podcast featured Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies, and RSA Conference. The conversation was lively and I invited Andi Mann due to a previous day tweet chat about cloud security. Lately I have had several serendipitous conversations on cloud security from TweetChat, to in face discussions with @Qthrul,…

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Where Does Virtualization Stop and the Cloud Start?

March 11, 2013
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CloudComputing

“I was going to write about how building a cloud is similar to moving, but the more I think about it, the more I think people are confusing an automated virtual environment with a cloud: IT as a Service is not just about cloud. Having automation does not imply your virtual environment is a cloud…

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IT as a Service: Not Just for a Cloud

March 7, 2013
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DataCenterVirtualization

I was going to write about how building a cloud is similar to moving, but the more I think about it, the more I think people are confusing an automated virtual environment with a cloud: IT as a Service is not just about cloud. Having automation does not imply your virtual environment is a cloud…

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Public Cloud Reality: Reinforced at CSA Summit

March 5, 2013
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CloudComputing

I have written about the Public Cloud Reality and the need to bring your own security, monitoring, support. This was reinforced by Dave Asprey of Trend Micro at the last Cloud Security Alliance Summit held at this years RSA Conference. The gist of Dave Asprey's talk was that YOU are responsible for the security of…

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RSA Conference: What was Interesting

March 4, 2013
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RSA Conference: What was Interesting

As I met with people at RSA Conference last week, the common question was: What was interesting and new? My view was from the world of virtualization and cloud security, which often differs from general or mobile security. This show was more about general and mobile security than it was about virtualization and cloud security…

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