If you are based in EMEA and are up for a challenge you might want to check out the following job roles as the VMware vCloud Services Team is still looking for highly motivated and skilled people! Just drop me (duncan @ yellow-bricks.com) an email when you are interested and I will make sure your [...]
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Time for a change…
January 15th, 2010
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A lot of announcements have been done lately(Scott Lowe’s for instance) so I could not stay behind. I will be joining the VMware Advanced Services department as the Cloud Architect for EMEA.
As you can imagine I am thrilled that I have been given this huge opportunity and will be transitioning to this new position over [...]
Not al compute units are equal
January 14th, 2010
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I was just reading an article which is titled “Surprise! Not all Amazon EC2 compute units are created equal. I think it’s a very interesting article and actually shows how people think/feel about what cloud computing is offering. In this case it’s all about the perception and as with many users the perception of performance [...]
Online Cloud Computing Summit
May 16th, 2009
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I received the following email below and I think it might interest you. It’s a free online cloud computing summit with 10 webcasts varying from OVF to Security to Monetizing. Although not mentioned below one of the people presenting is Edward Haletky of AstroArch Consulting and of course the VMTN Community Forums and podcast.
Here’s the [...]
Rodney Haywood: Cloud computing conference report
December 15th, 2008
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Today Rodney Haywood aka @rodos tweeted the following:
starting the write up of a new blog entry. Do people realise how long these things take!
Rodney was referring to the blog post he just published. I fully understand Rodney, I know it takes a lot of time to write articles like this:
What would a Enterprise, in particular one [...]
VMware Cloud strategy
September 26th, 2008
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Lately I’ve been reading all these blog and news articles that deal about the key message of VMworld: Cloud Computing. A lot of the journalists and blog writers didn’t pay attention during the Keynotes because they keep coming back to the fact that a lot of companies want to keep control of their data. Companies [...]
For those that didn’t go to VMworld…
September 16th, 2008
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There are a couple of great articles out there which are definitely worth reading:
Colin McNamara – Cisco releases Nexus 1000v virtual switch for VMware
Scott Lowe – BC2621: Fault-Tolerant VMs in VI: Operations and Best Practices (live blogging)
Scott Lowe – TA2668: VMware ESX Architectural Directions (live blogging)
Rich Brambley – TA3807: VirtualCenter Directions (live blogging)
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