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Interview with Andy Soanes of SGI on Cloud Computing taped @ VMWorld 2009

VMWorld 2009
In our video blog with Ron Oglesby yesterday, one of his thoughts was that our customers could really use a “Roadmap” for how to approach getting to the cloud. I agreed that this would certainly help cut through the confusion. I think one of the main problems is that vendors have jumped on the [...]

VMware’s announcement today of their vision to merge internal and external clouds and the concept of a virtual data center gives new meaning to disaster recovery. It decouples DR from hardware and instead focuses on a “stateless” recovery. No longer are applications tied to the physical hardware in a data center – they are now [...]

Are VMware’s vCloud initiatives enough to support the “Private Cloud” ?
VMWorld 2009
VMware over the last year or two has been working to build software and mindshare for their vCloud Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to provide corporations with the software that will enable building “Cloud” services for the x86 platform within corporations. [...]

What is “Cloud Computing”, What’s needed to get there and how does VMware fit in?
By Rob Zylowski Director, Services and Director, IP GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
VMWorld 2009
Wiki – Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.  Users need not have knowledge [...]