A Quick Intro Screen on Linux

For fans of RDP on Windows, one of the great utilities that you have available on Linux is one called Screen. Using Screen lets you start up a terminal session within your Linux host that can be left persistently in the background for you to to re-enter at another time from another location. Screen Basics … Read more

Using Tags on Digital Ocean

Digital Ocean has recently added the ability to tag your droplets.  Tags will let us better organize our workloads with targeted searchable tags to identify features, roles, names, or any type of information at all. The tags implementation is different on Digital Ocean than some other environments, but you may find it similar to other … Read more

Introducing the Free Turbonomic Cloud Cost Control

One of the fun projects that we’ve been working on at Turbonomic is putting a new, free SaaS offering online to let you test out part of the Turbonomic Cloud Cost Control capabilities in the platform.  This is a quick walkthrough of the first generation of the platform. Welcome to Cloud Cost Control by Turbonomic … Read more

VMware on AWS: Thoughts, Wins, and Challenges

VMware did what many would have thought would never be the done.  They announced the upcoming launch of VMware on AWS.  Frank Denneman did a great write up (thanks Frank!) that covers the first announcement and some of the details.  There have been lots of opinions on the announcement, the value to customers, and the impetus … Read more