63 item(s) containing the term "blog"
VMware’s Cloud Strategy: Neither Deadwood Nor Sandalwood But More Than A Collection Of Driftwoods
— Last week VMworld happened and some of the Clouderati were busy hanging out in the halls of Moscone Center at San Francisco. I was planning to attend the event but had to cancel due to personal reasons. But a steady stream of tweets and blog posts kept me updated about everything from the keynotes to [...]AWS Price Reductions Relentless
— Last week, amidst the din of VMWorld and people up in arms that OpenStack is implementing Rackspace’s APIs, Amazon’s Web Services Blog announced a significant price reduction on High-Memory Double Extra Large and High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large instances. This reduction is indicative of Amazon’s eff...Building A Search Plugin For Windows Live Writer
— So, a few weeks ago, Lori asked me if I’d be up for writing a plugin for Windows Live Writer to insert DevCentral related links into her blog posts. For those that don’t know about Windows Live Writer and post to a blog regularly, you are doing yourselves a disservice by not checking it out (that is, if you are ...Open Source As A SaaS Endgame: Google Wave’s Rebirth And Its Future
— Regular readers of this blog know that I have long been advocating Open Source as a SaaS Endgame. It is my argument this kind of escrow will help build customer trust on SaaS, especially from smaller SaaS vendors. This is the beauty of open source. It not only reduces the risk for SaaS users, it [...]Choosing a Load Balancing Algorithm Requires DevOps Fu
— Knowing the algorithms is only half the battle, you’ve got to understand a whole lot more to design a scalable architecture. Citrix’s Craig Ellrod has a series of blog posts on the basic (industry standard) load balancing algorithms. These are great little posts for understanding the basics of load balan...Guest Blog: Information Governance is in IT’s Best Interest
— Guest Blogger: Brian Babineau We are excited to introduce this week’s Guest Blogger, Brian Babineau, Senior Consulting Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. I recently authored an ESG Research Brief “E-mail Archiving Supports IT’s Role in Electronic Discovery” where I highlighted...The Enterprise Irregulars and Defrag
— I’ve long been a fan of the Enterprise Irregulars – and if you aren’t, you should be. The “EI’s” (as they’re often called) are a loosely joined group of practitioners, consultants, and analysts that collectively blog about enterprise software (and building the “smart” enterprise). Their group incl...Chad Is On A Tear ...
— I know, there's a LOT to read and digest coming out of VMworld these days. As an occasionally proliferate blogger myself, I have to hand it to Chad -- he's turned loose a veritable supernova of meaty and significant technology-oriented posts in the last few days. I'm impresse...Pomegranate - Storing Billions and Billions of Tiny Little Files
— Pomegranate is a novel distributed file system built over distributed tabular storage that acts an awful lot like a NoSQL system. It's targeted at increasing the performance of tiny object access in order to support applications like online photo and micro-blog services, which require high concurrency, high..."Cloud Musings" Named A "Top 50 Blog"
— My appreciation and thanks goes out to Jeremy Geelan for including "Cloud Musings" on his list of the Top 50 Cloud Computing Blogs. Thanks is also in order for "HighTechDad" (Michael Sheehan) for his insightful suggestion to create this new "prism through which to view cloud computing". Congratulations to my fellow c...CloudFucius Repeats: Money (Really) Moving to the Cloud
— Ever wish you saved a blog title for that ‘perfect’ eye-catcher? Well, I do. Last week I wrote about some cloud surveys talking about how financial institutions are using cloud services titled: CloudFucius’ Money: Trickles to the Cloud. I get to this week’s weekly entry and Ka-Chow (with apologies to Lig...Meet The All-New Structure Blog
— The big web infrastructure makeover which includes the rise of cloud computing has been an area of much focus for us. Now accompanying our industry-leading Structure conference, we are launching the Structure Blog to closely track what Nick Carr calls The Big Shift.Good Post - Overcoming Fear Of The Cloud
— In my perusing of various blogs and articles this morning I ran across this one, "Overcoming Fear Of The Cloud" A paragraphs in the article says: "The fears range from the personal (Will I lose my job?) to the operational (How can we make sure we are backed up?) to the strategic (Will we be locked in to one cloud?...Virtualization Will Cross the Chasm in Two Years (via ARCHIMEDIUS)
— As a part of my summer repost of my favorite Archimedius blogs I include my chasm crossing prediction hat still stands. Think about recent networking announcements from Cisco, F5, Juniper, etc. as the drumbeat leading the networking industry to a new era of network and therefore IT automation. G It seems counterintuiti...vSphere 4.1 – What’s New, What’s Good
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.The Beginning of the End of Static Infrastructure (via ARCHIMEDIUS)
— Keep in mind that this was posted Nov 2008… and I just blogged about record increases in the population of devices connected to the network. As virtualization takes hold in production environments and network strains accelerate expect the network to move to eth ecenter stage of hte virtualization and private clou...Gone Boating
— I’m taking some time off and probably won’t blog again until the first week of September. Jennifer and I are taking the boat north to Alaska. Most summers we spend a bit of time between the northern tip of Vancouver island and the Alaska border. This year is a little different for 2 reasons. First, we’re heading...RightScale Shows Cloud Adoption Picking Up
— RightScale, the cloud computing management vendor that automates the deployment and management of cloud platforms, today said in a blog post that it has tracked a 1,000 percent increase in its customer cloud infrastructure spend from June 2009 to June 2010.Maps and minds
— The National Geographic Assignment Blog is featuring a short excerpt from my book The Shallows, illustrated with some photographs from National Geographic photographers. In the excerpt, I look at the map as an early example of an intellectual technology that both reflects and disseminates a new way of thinking. Read it...Interview with Tim Mangan about his new book about App-V
— Blogger , speaker, consultant, and friend of the site Tim Mangan just released a book (today!) about App-V. Tim's been in this space a long time (and is one of five people who have spoken at all eight BriForums), but this is his first book. I interviewed...(read more)Cassidy: Cisco rapper Greg Justice finds Silicon Valley fame
— Of course nobody thought Cisco intern Greg Justice’s rap video blog posts would amount to anything. But that’s the thing about the Internet and, well, about us. You just never know. More Mike Cassidy columnsVMware And Its Storage - Faster, Smarter, Stronger... Free?
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.Going Public... (in the Cloud)
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.Amazon vs. VCE - Why They're Both Right About The 'Private Cloud'
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.E-Discovery: A Task Best Tackled By IT, Not Legal
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.Building A Commodity Cloud with EMC?
— Just a quick post to note a recent blog post by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis) that discusses some of the issues related to using EMC for commodity clouds. The posting hubs around a conversation I have been having with Chuck trying to understand the EMC product line better and seeing if there is a fit for [...]Looking for DevOps Stuff?
— If you heard about us at Velocity 2010 and are coming here for sweet sweet DevOps and agile info, we've moved to a different blog - come see us at the agile admin!The Apple/AT&T iPhone 4 preorder debacle is a prime example.....
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.Getting back into the blogging game.
— It's been quite a while since I last wrote anything here, as I've been focusing more on building up my businesses and blogging at http://mhalligan.com/. After my untracked hiatus, I'm back. To start I'm going to post the four or five interviews that I did over the past year and a half but never got around to posting h...The Non-Consolidating Consolidation
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.Its called the new job lag….
— It has been a bit more than 2 months since I made a post on my beloved Loosebolts blog. To my active and loyal readers, a sincere apology from me personally. As many of you know I recently took a new role with Nokia running their global service operations. Its been an amazing experience an...Getting Your Head In The Cloud? Or Is It Out?
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.dev2ops Interview
— Want to hear me spout off more about DevOps? Well, here's your chance; I did an interview with Damon Edwards of DTO and they've posted it on the dev2ops blog! Killer quote: "I say this as somebody who about 15 years ago chose system administration over development. But system administration and system administrator...Barriers to 'cloud computing' -- money for nothin' and chicks for free
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail
— For an interesting discussion on Windows Live Hotmail and the importance of operating and engineering the service (at huge scale), please visit the Windows Live Team’s Blog site and Arthur de Haan’s December 22, 2009 posting titled: A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail /gfsMy Posterous
— I've decided to try Posterous for quick posting more frequently throughout the day. I'm going to see if I can somehow integrate it here with this blog soon. Until then, please check out my posterous feed at http://kentlangley.posterous.com for interesting article, random quick thoughts, and who knows what e...Barriers to 'cloud based computing' -- the hype machine
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.Why Back Up Your Business Data? Server and Email Restores Aren't Good Enough Reasons...
— One of my favorite questions to ask smart IT folks is why they backup data at all. After the unavoidable litany of doing file level restores, email restores, server restores, compliance requirements, etcetera, etcetera, we come to the real answer: the guy before me did it this way.Original post blogged on b2evolution.D-I-D Approach to Scalabilty - Article at AKF Partners
— One of the blogs I frequent is AKF Partners. They write some top quality content there. A recent post introduced what they call the D-I-D approach to scalability. This stands for Design, Implement, and Deploy. It advocates planning for scalability. *GASP* Say what?! Plan for sc...idea blog, 24 august 2009
— Earlier this week I read on NY Times about the GPS run craze sweeping through the running community and wondered if there’s an iPhone app that tracked your GPS coordinates and “drew” them for you to upload to sites like gpsdrawing.com. I found the following apps that sort of accomplishes that. Trails ...Data Storage Virtualization Technology: A Great Tool, But No Panacea
— Original post blogged on b2evolution.Using Curl to Access the Rackspace Cloud API
— I've been playing around w/ the Rackspace Cloud API quite a bit. Then, today I got an email from a reader of this blog asking me how it works more or less. So, I thought I'd post a couple of the examples I've been using. In the absense of a fancy GUI to control cloud servers I've simply been using Curl and writing litt...Farmers, so long…
— This post represents a bittersweet moment in my career. As you have no doubt heard I am moving on from Microsoft to take on an exciting senior role at Digital Realty Trust. I will save the specifics on my new role and its mission for a future post on my personal Loosebolts blog. But for now, I...Changes at Microsoft
— by Arne Josefsberg As you may have already read, Mike Manos will be leaving Microsoft in early May to return to Chicago and take a leadership position with Digital Realty Trust. Those of you who read this blog regularly, or who followed his Loose Bolts blog, know that Mike’s been an integral leader in our data ...Upcoming AWS Events - Fall 2010
— Now that summer is officially history, we're going to swing in to high gear once again. We've got product launches, blog posts, and events of all sorts in the works. Here's what we have planned for September: Launch Your Game...Twitter Touts Mobile, Third-Party Client Use
— Microblogging phenom Twitter hasn't achieved all that it hoped in the mobile arena, but Evan Williams, the company's CEO, describes how that might be changing.Featured Blog: Microsoft introduces Cloud Guide for IT Leaders
— Read the blog posting on the Dynamic Datacenter Alliance Blog on the new resources announced for IT leaders.Got Questions on Desktop Virtualization? You're Not Alone.
— Read this blog posting on Desktop Virtualization to get some of your common questions answered.How do I know this Citrix streaming profile stuff is actually working?
— In my last blog entry Profile Streaming - Performance Gain? we looked at the performance increase when using the new profile streaming feature that ships with Profile management (Pm) v3. ...Do We Need CloudNAPs? It’s A Virtually Certain Maybe.
— Allan Leinwand from GigaOm wrote a really interesting blog the other day titled: “Do Enterprises Need a Toll Road to the Cloud?” in which he suggested that perhaps what is needed to guarantee high performance and high security Cloud connectivity is essentially a middleman that maintains dedicated aggregate ...Follow-On: The Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API (A6)
— Update 2/1/10: The A6 effort is in full-swing. You can find out more about it at the Google Groups here. A few weeks ago I penned a blog discussing an idea I presented at a recent Public Sector Cloud gathering that later inherited the name “Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API (A6)” The case fo...DDoS – A Moose On Cloud’s Table Or A Pea Under The Mattress?
— Readers of my blog will no doubt be familiar with Roland Dobbins. He’s commented on lots of posts here and whilst we don’t always see eye-to-eye, I really respect both his intellect and his style. So it’s fair to say that Roland is not a shy lad. Formerly at Cisco and now at Arbor, he’s [......Don’t Hassle the Hoff: Recent Press & Podcast Coverage & Upcoming Speaking Engagements
— Here is some of the recent coverage from the last month or so on topics relevant to content on my blog, presentations and speaking engagements. No particular order or priority and I haven’t kept a good record, unfortunately. Press/Technology & Security eZines/Website/Blog Coverage/Meaningful Links: Threatpo...Can We Secure Cloud Computing? Can We Afford Not To?
— [The following is a re-post from the Microsoft (Technet) blog I did as a lead up to my Cloudifornication presentation at Bluehat v9 I'll be posting after I deliver the revised edition tomorrow.] There have been many disruptive innovations in the history of modern computing, each of them in some way impacting how we cre...How Many Open Letters To Howard Schmidt Do We Need? Just One.
— My friend Adam at the The New School Information Security Blog wrote An Open Letter to the New Cyber-Security Czar: Congratulations on the new job! Even as a cynic, I’m surprised at just how fast the knives have come out, declaring that you’ll get nothing done. I suppose that low expectations are easy to exceed. [....Incomplete Thought: Why We Need Open Source Security Solutions More Than Ever…
— Image via Wikipedia I don’t have time to write a big blog post and quite frankly, I don’t need to. Not on this topic. I do, however, feel that it’s important to bring back into consciousness how very important open source security solutions are to us — at least those of us who actually expect [....Incomplete Thought: “The Cloud in the Enterprise: Big Switch or Little Niche?”
— Joe Weinman wrote an interesting post in advance of his panel at Structure ’10 titled “The Cloud in the Enterprise: Big Switch or Little Niche?” wherein he explored the future of Cloud adoption. In this blog, while framing the discussion with Nick Carr‘s (in)famous “Big Switch” utili...2010 RSA Security Bloggers Award – Thanks A Bunch…
— I don’t pay much attention to lists or awards, other than to usually make fun of them (especially when I’m put on one.) However, this time I’ll make an exception. I was nominated this year for the RSA Security Bloggers Awards in the category of “Most Entertaining blog” and was voted “...Virtual Networking/Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch Blogger Roundtable/WebEx Logistics – March 2nd.
— About a year before I started working at the Jolly Green Giant (Cisco) I had a rather loud and addictive hobby that was focused on proving that Cisco would offer a “third party” virtual switch for VMware environments. This sort of unhealthy fascination also dovetailed with another related to “Projec...Why Is NASA Re-Inventing IT vs. Putting Men On the Moon? Simple.
— Image via Wikipedia I was struck with a sense of disappointment as I read Bob Wardspan’s (Smoothspan) blog today “NASA Fiddles While Rome Is Burning.” So as Bob was rubbed the wrong way by Alex Howard’s post (below,) so too was I by Bob’s perspective. All’s fair in love and space...VMworld – v0dgeball Deathmatch Details: vSquirrels vs. Sakacc’s Army…
— UPDATE: Thanks to Chad’s hard work, transportation to/from the venue is provided: v0dgeball bus (players and groupies) Marriott on Mission ~5:30PM Thurs, departs at 6:00 PM sharp & return ~10:00 PM. [Reposted and edited for snark from Sakacc's blog.] To celebrate the close of VMworld 2010, there will be a bes...The Great FCoE Dance Debate - An Allegory
— [NB: This is a slightly different type of blog entry. Despite the links within the blog connect to individual posts, this allegory is not directed at any specific individuals or groups] “Today we’re going to talk about swing dancing, specifically Lindy Hop.” “But wait, I want to talk abo...If you have these challenges…..you might need a Vblock
— Back in April, VMware/Cisco/EMC participated in a Tech Field Day event where various IT vendors had the opportunity to present current products and future vision to technology bloggers with a variety of backgrounds. VCE Vblock was one of the focus areas of a 2hr session towards the end of the event. One of the comments...About
My name is Catherine Liao and you're reading the latest postings of various blogs I follow. You'll notice that the topics tend to center around Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.
These are topics that I'm interested in as I've spent a large chunk of my professional career building, deploying, and maintaining 24x7 application delivery environments. I use the knowledge I've garnered daily in my role as a Technology Solutions Architect for Cisco.
I should note that this site is my personal site and does not reflect the views of Cisco.
Feel free to drop me a note if you find this site useful or if you'd like for me to check out your blog. I can be reached at catherine.liao@gmail.com. You can also connect with me via LinkedIn or Twitter.
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My name is Catherine Liao and you're reading the latest postings of various blogs I follow. You'll notice that the topics tend to center around Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.
These are topics that I'm interested in as I've spent a large chunk of my professional career building, deploying, and maintaining 24x7 application delivery environments. I use the knowledge I've garnered daily in my role as a Technology Solutions Architect for Cisco. I should note that this site is my personal site and does not reflect the views of Cisco.
Feel free to drop me a note if you find this site useful or if you'd like for me to check out your blog. I can be reached at catherine.liao@gmail.com. You can also connect with me via LinkedIn or Twitter.
Looking for less "geeky" content? Check out my travel blog 1-Day Itinerary.
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Data Center Migration Blog
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ms datacenters
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
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