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 […]
Agenda Solution Exchange & Genius Bar 9.00 – 17.30 Participant registration opens 9.00 Plenary sessions 10.00 – 12.30 VMware: Powering Business Through IT – VMware From Cloud Computing to Virtual Desktop – VMware From Theory to Practice: Use Cases – VMware Virtualization, a lever of IT and the Market. The Telecom Italia case – Telecom […]
For many IT managers, moving some of their applications from corporate data centers to cloud computing is a chance to eliminate a litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in electrical power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. “Pay as you go” for the computing power you need, and letting someone else take care […]
For some time we have been observing the Eucalyptus project, precisely since it was an open only project, there is also a recent commercial section to offer companies the support to switch their datacenter to Cloud Computing logic. The project was born as an emulation of Amazon’s Cloud Computing infrastructure, in the sense that it […]
Since the advent of the Internet and with the exponential development of access to the network, the increasing dependence of users on network connectivity, the birth of increasingly popular online applications, the gigantic increase in the amount of information deposited on the network, the growing power of web-oriented programming languages, the birth and exponential development […]
Yesterday Microsoft published the price-model for its Windows Azure Cloud. What’s interesting about the model is that it appears to be very similar to the Amazon Web Services model. Amazon is asking for $12.5 cents for each hour of a Windows Server base, in contrast to Microsoft has stated that the price will be 12 […]
Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform, which is of the Application/Platform (Saas/PaaS) type, has an interesting service, SQL Data Service (SDS), represents a cloud-based relational database developed with SQL Server 2008 technology of which I recommend to see the presentation in silverlight. Through SDS it is possible to easily use an RDBMS relational database (such as SQL […]
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 […]
The First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO – Nebraska, USA) wanted to insure its data center against any power outage. So they built a new “underground” data center in Omaha, lined with concrete. The facility is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, fully operational “off the grid”, not connected to the national electricity grid. “If the […]