Cisco UCS Platform Kool-Aid (Careful When Drinking)
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words! I don’t dislike the Cisco UCS Platform, I just don’t feel good about letting a network hardware vendor take over the server …
Blades vs Rack Servers For vSphere
Blades Are Sexy! Are you trying to decide whether to use blade and chassis instead of rack mounted servers for virtualization? Here are the Pros and Cons of Blades …
Free Open Source Cloud Self Service Portal Software
Open Source Self Service Portals for VMware, XenServer, KVM and other virtual servers: Open Eucalyptus http://www.eucalyptus.com OpenNebula http://www.opennebula.org/ Cloud Stack http://www.cloud.com Convirture http://www.convirture.com/ (Supports VMware) OpenStack www.Openstack.org Self service cloud software is cool, but …
Why Did VMware “REALLY” Join the OpenStack Foundation?
I read about VMware joining the OpenStack Foundation yesterday on Gigamon and I couldn’t help but think what’s coming next for these poor chaps…chuckle, chuckle! Article: Finally! VMware joins the …
Free Hosted Opscode to Try Chef On 5 Servers Before You Buy
Is Chef the configuration management and automation tool for your operations team? Here’s what a DevOps member shared with me about a POC he was involved in, including Chef, …
Free Unitrends Enterprise Backup Software
Once again I have another cool freebie for protecting your VMware or Hyper-V virtual servers. This one is called Unitrends and it has some very robust features: Unitrends Enterprise …