We have been evolving our data center operations throughout the years. As we come from centralized to decentralized, from mainframe to distributed, and from physical to virtualized deployments, the one thing that has had to be the most adaptive is the ever valuable Systems Administrator. So, as we head into the next generation of the … Read more
Recently I attended a SQL User Group here in Toronto and one of the fun parts of the event is that everyone was asked to speak. I opted for a lightning talk which was five minutes, and my presentation was created to chat about change, virtualization, SQL servers, and the new ways of IT. I … Read more
With the announcement of the Cloud Foundry Foundation initiative today, we have some really great things to look forward to in the cloud and virtualization industry. The move was an indication in many ways about the direction in the landscape of infrastructure providers, and it is being driven by a new, agile, adapting consumer market. … Read more
There is some really great work coming out the various “stack” products, and for Apache CloudStack is very certainly one of the popular environments we see out there. I decided to look at the Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing book to guide me through the process and it was just what I needed! One of the … Read more