Of all of the possible benefits of a private cloud infrastructure, one of the most valuable is flexibility. With a properly designed private cloud infrastructure, the data center environment can fluidly shift with the business. This allows new applications to be deployed to meet business demands as they’re identified, and…
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The Stack Wars: OpenStack vs. CloudStack
The industry is moving up the stack. We’re migrating from a focus on Layer 1 physical to Layer 7, applications. Software is king in the future of IT–applications and services are what matter. Cloud is what we’ve termed it for now, and when discussing cloud, open and standard are key…
Consider Cloud Computing Services Before Your Users Do
Cloud computing is here, get over it. Services are being used, business value is being gained, and budgets are being cut using cloud platforms, be they private, public or other. It’s not something you can hide from, and the longer you drag your feet, the worse off you are. To…
The Ugly Breakup: Time for Your Apps to Part
The marketing is there, and has been for some time. Buzzwords have been coined and your interest is piqued. You sat back long enough to see if this was just vaporware or real, while gaseous. Cloud turns out to be more solid than its nomenclature. You’re ready, in fact you’re…
Zero to Private Cloud in 8 Steps
Here are eight steps for going from zero to private cloud. Note that I didn’t say eight "easy" steps. But don’t let that bother you–nothing that’s easy is ever worth doing anyway. 1. Define business objectives for cloud migration. 2. Prioritize objectives. 3. Create and promote your cloud vision and…
Private Cloud Lessons You Can’t Learn From Amazon, Google, Etc
When discussing private cloud, questions often come up about how the big boys are doing it; Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. The thinking is that the large scale data centers they are running can teach us lessons about smaller scale infrastructure for private clouds, which, on the surface, seems to make…
Blades are Not the Future
Kevin Houston, Founder of Blades Made Simple and all around server and blade rocket surgeon, posted an excellent thought provoking article titled ‘Why Blade Servers Will Be the Core of Future Data Centers ( http://bladesmadesimple.com/2011/10/why-blade-servers-will-be-the-core-of-future-data-centers/.) The article is his predictions and thoughts on the way in which the server industry…
Cloud Success Factor: Rethink Application Development
You’ve been driving a perfectly suitable family sedan for the last ten years. It’s highly rated by all the gurus who rate such things; it’s safe, reliable and gets acceptable gas mileage. You’ve never loved it in anyway, although you did have a moment of pure capitalist joy when you…
Hypervisors are not the Droids You Seek
Long ago, in a data center far, far away, we as an industry moved away from big iron and onto commodity hardware. That move brought with it many advantages, such as cost and flexibility. The change also brought along with it higher hardware and operating system software failure rates. This…
Build For IT Nirvana
In many data centers large and small there is a history of making short-term decisions that affect long-term design. These may be based on putting out immediate fires, such as rolling out a new application, expanding an old one, or replacing failed hardware. They may also be made by short-sighted…