NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) informs us of the draft definition of the term Cloud Computing. There was a strong need for it given the proliferation of incorrect definitions and the often improper use of this term by outdated, but fashionable ICT companies. Here are some essential points that have not been translated: […]
The DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) announced yesterday, April 27, the formation of a working group dedicated to the development of a set of specifications for the management of resources in the Cloud. The group, Open Cloud Standards Incubator, will focus mainly on interoperability between private and public clouds, perhaps developing management protocols, package formats […]
In the difficult search for a management system capable of satisfying the needs of a complex, dynamic and complete business, we came across this OpenSource project: A complete and flexible software with a programmable and customizable client-server architecture of which we report the features: Enterprise Modules *Sales * Purchase * Services Management * Invoicing * […]
The proliferation of datacenters, the number of under-used servers, the delays and complexity in designing and implementing a reliable and scalable multi-tier infrastructure, the need of companies to no longer want to worry about the infrastructure, to no longer want to keep “in-house” system engineers and architects useful only at certain times, are finally developing […]
Months ago we underlined at the bottom of the article: http://blog.vmengine.net/2008/05/30/marten-mickos-ceo-di-mysql-a-la-sapienza-di-roma/ related to the Roman conference of MySQL at Sapienza, about the future possibilities of creating performance using the new native ZFS filesystem of Solaris and the MySQL database engine. Well something was born, thanks to some features of the phenomenal ZFS filesystem and the […]
For those who follow our updates, not long ago we published the following article: high-availability-free-kemari-allo-xen-summit-asia-tokyo On the new horizons of high availability of the XEN open source project. In the demos of the RoadMap of the VMware portal there is a video on a new very interesting feature, VMware Fault Tolerance, which exploits, as it […]
This is a mini guide to the chapter on swapping formats between Virtual Machine Manager. In this case we have native Microsoft Virtual Server VMs and we want to mount them on XenServer. The issue is simplified by the fact that they both use the VHD format as virtual disks. The operations to be carried […]
As President Barack Obama was sworn in just after 12 noon, the website whitehouse.gov changed, adopting the design and features of the Obama Change.gov team’s transition website. There will be many more changes along the way, and Cloud Computing is a key element of the new administration’s Technology Innovation and Government Reform (TIGR) program. In […]
This article is a guide on how to always have your version of the ESX hypervisor in your pocket and be able to try any system if it boots with VMware’s flagship hypervisor, the ESX 3i free version with no limits of use. First of all, you need to have the version that can be […]