As you may have seen from Tweets floating around today, there was an interesting post written by Subbu Allamaraju, Chief Engineer for the cloud program at eBay, titled “OpenStack is not cloud” – http://www.subbu.org/blog/2013/07/openstack-is-not-cloud This article brings up some very interesting questions about how we define the litmus test for a cloud, and how OpenStack is measured against these criteria. AWS …
Double-Take 7.0: Now with 100% More PowerShell!
For customers of Double-Take Availability by Vision Solutions, you have enjoyed lots of features and functionality which have personally saved my bacon in DR situations over the years. In Q1 of 2013 I was given a road-map presentation for the new Double-Take 7.0 product line with more optimization and a bunch of new features. With every road-map session, with any …
VMware or OpenStack? Don’t choose one; choose both!
In the ever evolving world of virtualization, we are faced with new and exciting changes all the time. As a long time VMware customer and advocate, I am obviously very attached to the entire VMware ecosystem and the community that surrounds it. Recently I’ve been doing a significant amount of OpenStack work, and I’m even writing a book on the …
DiscoPosse Review: Active Directory – Designing, Deploying and Running Active Directory
It was a real pleasure to read the Active Directory – Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory by Brian Desmond, Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair Lowe-Norris from O’Reilly Press. One of the first technology books that I bought was the first edition of the book, so it was a nice throwback to the original by reading the new updated edition. …