Cinco De VMUG: Charlotte, NC
May 5th, 2011: Nick Howell and I participated in the Carolina VMware Users Summit in Charlotte NC. The event was handled very well with registered attendance well over 700 people and more than 580 onsite (vendor and participant). The agenda included a keynote in the morning by VMware, one in the afternoon by myself, and a panel discussion on the future of cloud computing. There were breakout sessions throughout the day that covered all aspects of virtualization: DR, Networking, Virtual Desktops, Case Studies, Management and Monitoring Virtualized/Cloud environments. My kudos to Varrow for hosting the hands on lab, and TrainsignalRead more →
“The Six Million Dollar” Service Oriented Infrastructure (the last/lost post)
Population: Zero: When our SOI investigates the death of the entire data population of a storage volume, they are contacted by a rogue x86 server, once employed in the legacy data center, who is set on revenge for past grievances. Our SOI must stop the server when it demands $10 million or it will kill another storage volume. NetApp: Storage Constructs for the Cloud As part of OnCommand, NetApp provides three integrated tools for the development of storage service bundles and catalogs: Provisioning Manager, Protection Manager and APIs to integrate third party applications and capabilities to extend these technologies. StorageRead more →
“The Six Million Dollar” Service Oriented Infrastructure (pt 4c of 4)
The Solid Gold Kidnapping: Our SOI becomes involved in a series of storage resource kidnapping cases culminating in a demand in a billion dollar ransom delivered from the data center’s traditional storage arrays. When the ransom is hijacked by a competing legacy mainframe, Our SOI must use the power of integration to team up with the virtualization layer’s vCloud Director to extract the storage resources from the traditional storage array’s drives through data transfer technology. Storage Automation Storage automation is the ability to assign time-intensive and/or repetitive storage operations into a prescribed procedure that can be initiated by some eventRead more →
“The Six Million Dollar” Service Oriented Infrastructure (pt 4b of 4)
The Solid Gold Kidnapping: Our SOI becomes involved in a series of storage resource kidnapping cases culminating in a demand in a billion dollar ransom delivered from the data center’s traditional storage arrays. When the ransom is hijacked by a competing legacy mainframe, Our SOI must use the power of integration to team up with the virtualization layer’s vCloud Director to extract the storage resources from the traditional storage array’s drives through data transfer technology. Storage orchestration The concept of orchestration is simply the efforts taken to identify and implement easier ways of managing complex storage environments. It improves theRead more →
“The Six Million Dollar” Service Oriented Infrastructure (pt 4a of 4)
The Solid Gold Kidnapping: Our SOI becomes involved in a series of storage resource kidnapping cases culminating in a demand in a billion dollar ransom delivered from the data center’s traditional storage arrays. When the ransom is hijacked by a competing legacy mainframe, Our SOI must use the power of integration to team up with the virtualization layer’s vCloud Director to extract the storage resources from the traditional storage array’s drives through data transfer technology. Blogger’s Note: In the last post, I teased you with two things – lies to be told and Darwinism to be applied. First the lieRead more →