IT 2.0

Last week I came across an interesting blog post from Mark Thiele.

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

A few weeks ago Adrian Cockcroft (Cloud Architect @ Netflix) wrote another very interesting post on his blog.

My old vCloud Director Networking for Dummies post is still going strong according to my blog statistics.

We have known this for years but it's only when you get a slap on your face that you understand what's going on for real: the GHz metric is useless these days.

A few days ago we had a big election day in Italy for renewing a good part of the public local administration.

An entire Amazon AWS Region was recently down for four days.

A few days ago I was in a very interesting meeting with a big Service Provider in Europe and I heard a lot of interesting comments.

The way VMware is packaging / positioning vShield technologies isn't clear to everyone.

A few days ago I have received an email from an IBM Business Partner I used to work with during my previous life.

I am very excited about this episode.

Talking from experience, trying to explain "cloud computing" comes with its own challenges.

It was dense!

Everybody says the future is in hybrid clouds.

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

In the first episode of this series of posts we explored the cloud on-boarding experience with VMware partner Stratogen.

I believe there is nothing like using a technology (or a solution) from an end-user perspective to really appreciate it.

As I am sitting on my plane to Frankfurt with 45 minutes of delay due to heavy snow I thought I'd give this thought of mine a place on this blog.

What is cloud?

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

These days I am working on a bunch of new vCloud products that are currently in private beta and I found myself in need to create an Organization on vCloud Director (vCD from now on) with authentication backed by an Active Directory.

One of the promise of cloud computing is the simplification through standardization of deployments.

During the Beta phase of vCloud Director (aka Redwood) I put together a small deck called "Redwood Networking for Dummies".

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

A few weeks ago Rackspace and NASA announced an initiative called OpenStack aimed at providing an(other) open source alternative for building public and private clouds.

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog<.

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

Before joining VMware roughly 4 months ago I was wondering, along with many of you, what sort of company VMware was turning into and what they were doing and what they wanted to become in the long run.

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog.

Yes I am back.

Those of you that have been following me on twitter and on my blog know that I have been very focused on studying and monitoring the latest trends regarding which hardware platforms virtualization users are using for their infrastructures.

There have been lots discussions lately about what's happening around Citrix XenServer.

The topic in this article is something that I have been thinking about for a while.

Last night I posted a new article about the SpringSource/VMware story and the potential implications for the industry that this will have.

The acquisition of SpringSource that VMware has announced is going to change the way the industry as a whole perceives and segments the key players in the x86 virtualization market.

In this article, I'd like to document a setup I have been working on for a few days at the LSI office in Milano (great guys and free beverage there!

The last day of March 2009 Intel officially unveiled its brand new Nehalem core architecture under the Xeon 5500 product name umbrella.

On Monday 16th Cisco unveiled its Unified Computing System (UCS).

A few weeks ago I wrote a tutorial on how to deploy Hyper-V R2 on the IBM BladeCenter S where I demonstrated, among other things, how to LiveMigrate from one blade to another.

I have just got back from VMworld 2009 Europe in Cannes.

My good friend at Microsoft, Giorgio Malusardi, noticed my post "Enterprise Virtualization in a Box" which was essentially an example of how to create a BladeCenter-contained VMware-enabled data center in a box (including servers, storage and networking).

VMworld 2009 Europe is coming (last week of February).

In this post I am going to talk about a specific piece of hardware technology that is intercepting a specific virtualization industry trend.

Early in 2007 I wrote a post whose title was "Will Microsoft Sunset VMware?".

I have been working in IT for about 17 years now, 14 of which at IBM.

I think he did but, relax Paul, I am not going to sue you... ;-) Joking aside I was sitting at the VMworld 2008 Keynote in Las Vegas back on Monday last week and I was somewhat surprised (perhaps even pleased) to see Paul touching on many innovative conce…

So finally it happened.

Virtualization is a disruptive technology and we all know that.