Disabling Failback On VMware dvSwitch: Why You Should Consider
During some recent testing with our 1.0 cloud configurations in our lab, we noticed some behavior in failure scenarios that was pretty surprising. The scenario is this. You have a VMware based cloud...
View ArticleUnderstanding VLAN Port Count In A Cisco UCS Environment – Part 3 (Final)
I’ve posted two previous blog entries trying to cover the VLAN Port Count in a cloud environment. In a Cisco UCS environment (specifically a Vblock in our case), you have to be concerned about VLAN...
View ArticleUnderstanding Remote Access Requirements For Multi-Tenant Cloud
We are coming up on the third anniversary of our first service provider, multi-tenant cloud product launch at Windstream. Other than Amazon and a few other major players, there weren’t a lot of people...
View ArticleWindstream Lauches DRaaS Offerings
Windstream Lauches DRaaS Offerings This is one of the projects we’ve been working on for the past six months or so.
View ArticleWhy Amazon’s Outage Does NOT Expose Risk Of Cloud Computing
Over the weekend, Amazon experienced another major outage with some of it’s cloud services. This time, apparently it was due to the power outages that swept the east coast as a result of some major...
View ArticleNext Generation Cloud Security – Hardware Root of Trust, Geolocation, etc…
You read a lot about cloud security and there are a daily assortment of articles addressing it. It’s for good reason given that security is often quoted as the number one inhibitor for organizations...
View ArticleSecure Workload Migration Within and Between Data Centers
This was a very busy week for me at EMC. It marked the announcement of a solution we put together with a lot of hard work by people from EMC, RSA, Intel, and HyTrust. This was the first project I was...
View ArticleBuilding & Deploying a DRaaS solution for Cloud Providers Using EMC...
Building & Deploying a DRaaS solution for Cloud Providers Using EMC Recoverpoint & VNX If you’re going to EMC World this year, be sure to sign up for this session that I’m presenting. We’ll be...
View ArticleEMC World Session Preview: Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
It’s that time of year. Time to head out to Las Vegas for a greatly anticipated EMC World show. I’ll be out there to present two technical sessions on disaster recovery for cloud providers and...
View ArticleNew White Paper: Trusted Workload Migration with EMC, RSA, Intel, and HyTrust
I’ve been working on this white paper for some time now but because we were pulling so much information from so many different companies, it took a while to get the review process wrapped up. However,...
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