Cameron Haight

Good comments by my colleague Tom Bittman on the recent Citrix and Microsoft news.  What’s interesting to me though is the now strategic emphasis on management technology by Citrix.  And of course Microsoft continues to invest in System Center and VMware in vCenter and other management add-ons.  As hypervisor platform commoditization grows, where will these [...]

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From WWW to WWC?  I first came across this term here in Reuven Cohen’s Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum and its proposed Unified Cloud Interface or UCI (I’ll focus more on the issues of standardization in a subsequent post because it’s of importance to my management focus). Cohen used this term in relation to SOASTA’s CloudTest [...]

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As we’ve observed from the major virtualization platform providers, we are now starting to see more cost and TCO calculators for cloud computing.  Amazon has had one for awhile.  Here’s another that compares Amazon to an on premises solution.  This tool appears to be a generic SaaS versus on premise evaluator.  Rackspace/Mosso seems to have [...]

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I just came across an interesting paper on a VMware project called PARDA.  The acronym stands for Proportional Allocation of Resources for Distributed Storage Access and represents an attempt to potentially deal with increasing virtualization I/O concerns using a "proportional-share resource scheduler that can provide service differentiation for I/O like VMware already provides for CPU [...]

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Thought I’d pass along an interesting link.  Microsoft has been doing some work on analyzing IT operations costs.  They have a URL www.spotlightoncost.com where you can access a study (note: requires registration) on operations best practices (and their cost impacts) against a set of six server types (i.e., email, print servers, etc.).  While the cost [...]

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Sorry for the lapse in blogging … no excuse other than to promise to do better from now on out.  I thought that I’d start out by telling those that care what I’m focusing on this year.  I’m still covering virtualization management … in fact, this is one of the reasons for my blogging "vacation" [...]

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