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Every once in a while, I’ll do a news search for ‘cloud computing.’ Yesterday was one of those days and while there are always a few stories about ‘the cloud,’ I was somewhat amazed by the number and range of topics that appeared. Also, the most recent issue (Oct 2011) of Consumer Reports had an article about ‘what’s the cloud.’ It was fairly elementary but for some reason when something is covered in Consumer Reports, I tend to think it’s finally reaching the masses. I’m glad they included, ‘Use caution when signing up for any cloud service. Make sure your...
I wrap up a great F5 week at VMworld 2011. Special thanks to: Alan Murphy, Ron Carovano, Charlie Cano, Paul Pindell, Michael Koyfman of F5; Sanjay Aiyagari of VMware and a special Mahalo to the the VMware Hands-on lab NOC team and all the F5'ers who helped with whiteboards and interviews.
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We visit the VMworld Hands-on Lab, get a view of the Network Operations Center (NOC) and visit with Paul Pindell, F5 Sr. Solution Engineer, to get a 'backstage' view of how BIG-IP helps deliver the VM's to all the lab participants.
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I interview Sr. Business Development Manager, Ron Carovano at VMworld. Ron talks about the strategic importance of the F5/VMware relationship, hot topics at the show and other observations.
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I chat with F5 Technical Marketing Manager Alan Murphy who whiteboards the VDI Single Namespace solution. Instead of having to find your virtual desktop, have your virtual desktop follow you.
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I interview Sanjay Aiyagari, Senior Partner Architect with VMware. We discuss the growth of VMworld, cloud computing, scalability, and Metro vMotion.
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The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, recently announced that they are launching (Q4 of 2011) a publicly accessible registry that will document the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings. The idea is to encourage transparency of security practices within cloud providers and help users evaluate and determine the security of their current cloud provider or a provider they are considering. The service will be free.
CSA STAR (Security, Trust and Assurance Registry) is open to all cloud providers whether they...
Data center consolidation means more than simply reducing the number of servers, routers, and switches your company has in outlying offices and data centers. Data center virtualization is more than multiple images mapped to physical devices. Efforts to reduce both capital and operating expenditures by consolidating data centers can fail if the applications and the network are not optimized. By architecting data center infrastructure to be as nimble and agile as possible, IBM and F5 enable enterprises to better react in real time to customer requirements and to position the...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or the ability to deliver desktops as a managed service is an attractive and cost effective solution to mange a corporate desktop environment. The success of virtual desktop deployments hinges on the user experience, availability and performance, security and IT's ability to reduce desktop operating expenses.
VDI deployments virtualizes user desktops by delivering them to distinctive end point devices over the network from a central location. Since the user's primary work tool is now located in a data center rather than their own local machine, VDI can put a strain on network resources while the user...
Effective consolidation means more than simply reducing the number of boxes your company has in outlying offices and data centers. Efforts to reduce hardware infrastructure often result in degraded application performance—and thus unplanned expenditure—as it becomes necessary to optimize the infrastructure. F5’s open architectural framework allows real control over your network to ensure applications are delivered exactly as intended. Running Time: 25:04 Read full white paper here. And click here for more F5 Audio.
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