I’ve linked below an overview of the VxRack product line and the technical preview launched yesterday on Day 1 of EMC World. Chad does a great job of breaking this down. What I would highlight here is the complexity of the IT landscape. Any conversation based on IT as a […]
Mirantis architect Chrisian Huebner discusses object storage options in OpenStack. A good overview of when to consider Ceph vs. Swift. https://www.mirantis.com/blog/ceph-vs-swift-architects-perspective/
There should be no doubt that the future of IT infrastructure is in public cloud. Exhibit C: Google has built a model run in a neural network to predict datacenter efficiencies. They’re using the model to make decisions about infrastructure changes on the raised floor. An enterprising engineer saw that […]
Azure Release Management – Windows 2k8 retiring For those of you building out private cloud service stacks, one of the big questions is – how do I deal with release management? What happens when we retire an old version of the OS? Here’s how Azure appears to be doing it. […]
