One of the advantages of a private cloud architecture is the flexible pooling of resources that allows rapid change to match business demands. These resource pools adapt to the changing demands of existing services and allow for new services to be deployed rapidly. For these pools to maintain adequate performance, they must be designed to handle peak periods and this will also result in periods with idle cycles… To see the full article visit Network Computing: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/231903031.
The Stack Wars: OpenStack vs. CloudStack
The industry is moving up the stack. We’re migrating from a focus on Layer 1 physical to Layer 7, applications. Software is king in the future of IT–applications and services are what matter. Cloud is what we’ve termed it for now, and when discussing cloud, open and standard are key…
OTV and Vplex: Plumbing for Disaster Avoidance
High availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, etc. are all key concerns of any data center design. They all describe separate components of the big concept: ‘When something does go wrong how do I keep doing business.’ Very public real world disasters have taught us as an industry valuable lessons in…
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Intent Driven Architecture Part III: Policy Assurance
Here I am finally getting around to the third part of my blog on Intent Driven Architectures, but hey, what’s a year between friends. If you missed or forgot parts I and II the links are below: Intent Driven Architectures: WTF is Intent Intent Driven Architectures Part II: Policy Analytics…