On October 29th we received an email from Continuent, a company that we have been following for several years for its brilliant and very useful relational database clustering solutions, acquired by VMware. VMware, in our opinion, succeeds with this acquisition to gain a great competitive advantage that is very important to recover the market against […]
We re-publish this interesting infographic found on the net, it would seem created by Visiwa lab. It’s an infographic that manages to group some salient points of the history of Cloud Computing, maybe I would have mentioned them and fixed some mistakes, but the idea is very good. As we always say, the Cloud starts […]
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 […]
Lately, there has been a very strong movement and growth of the PaaS (Platform as a Services) ecosystem. Within a couple of months, AWS expanded its roots in the PaaS world by powerfully invading the world of Windows Azure. AWS BeanStalk, a PaaS service born for quite some time now, initially only for the Java […]
It is worth mentioning the storage virtualization solutions that Compellent, a US company based in Minnesota that works in the field of storage solutions of considerable thickness, has arrived. Acquired by Dell for $960 million in December 2010. We would like to point out: Live Volume It’s like a storage hypervisor, a volume mapped from […]
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 […]
As is known to operators in the sector, the fundamental difference between ESX and ESXi Hypervisors, in addition to the very convenient possibility of being able to use ESXi in free mode, is the lack of the Management Console. But in truth the CLI in ESXi is not missing, it is simply deactivated and here […]
At the end of the event we report a summary of the fundamental points discussed and addressed. We started with an introduction to the research project from which this first round table meeting was born and we analyzed the greenpeace document highlighting the pages where the errors due to the confusion of the term cloud […]
VMengine, the AWS User Group Naples in collaboration with Eurocloud Italia and the dept. of Computer Science and Systems Engineering of Federico II, invite you to attend the research table on GreenIT, in particular on the optimization of energy consumption of Cloud Providers’ datacenters and on the convenience of using public cloud computing to promote […]
EBS : Elastic Block Storage, one of the web services that we believe is fundamental for a self-respecting cloud computing infrastructure, now allows booting. What is EBS: A service capable of creating a storage volume that we can link to an EC2 server instance, is defined as persistent to differentiate it from the storage with […]