VMware, the undisputed leader of virtualization that in 2008 cut out the founders, Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, to forcefully penetrate the cloud computing market (also thanks to the vision of Paul Maritz), these days is creating interesting movements on the network. 1. It seems that VMware, which we remember is the independent daughter of the […]
We have recently come up against problems of installation/configuration of virtualization in innovative HW environments for the creation of a virtual mini datacenter. The activity was carried out in collaboration with the Clara Consortium, with which we carried out the design and implementation of the virtual rack / datacenter in four arms. The equipment was […]
When we attended a conference in Rome (Data Center Evolution), Cisco described its vision for the Unified Computing System (UCS), focusing on the FCoE (Fiber Channel Over Ethernet) protocol and how Cisco supported this rather than the more performing Infiniband. We asked the speaker Roberto Missana (Channel Product Sales Specialist of Cisco and Vice Chairman […]
Over the past year, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) has moved quickly and effectively to fill the gap it had accumulated in the incredibly growing industry of virtualization, cloud computing, and virtual datacenter, first by unveiling acquisition intentions as in our previous article, then by launching a Unified Computing solution as described in this article, later creating […]
We attended this dutiful event in the beautiful Sheraton Golf2 Hotel in Rome. Below is the agenda: 9.30 Registration of participants 10.00 Welcome and opening of the meeting Luigi Marcocchia, Softway 10.10 How to harness the power of virtualization to transform Data Centers into simplified cloud computing infrastructures, capable of providing advanced, reliable, flexible and […]
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 […]