It was a big day for OpenStack as it marked the 10th full release in just 4 short years. Juno, the newly minted full release, was chalk full of exciting new features, updates, and bug fixes. Here’s a little preview of what’s new, and I’m really excited to play around more with the “big data” options … Read more
As a regular user of Vagrant in conjunction with VirtualBox for building and deploying lab environments, I often have situations where I have multiple virtual instances running at a time. The challenge with that is that sometimes my multi-node labs are having to be suspended and resumed to save on resources. It’s not difficult, but … Read more
VMware has opened the doors on a new hyperconverged platform this morning in their HCIA (Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance) now unveiled as EVO:RAIL. Long known for their strength in data center virtualization with VMware vSphere, VMware has begun to step into the hardware world in a big way with this announcement. 2U of HTML Managed SDDC Goodness … Read more
You may have already seen the news that the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service has been officially renamed this morning to vCloud Air. This will inevitably draw some interesting comments as any name change can do, but there is good reason for what some may refer to as pure semantics. How Hybrid Was vCloud Hybrid Service … Read more