As a technologist, there are many tough questions you’re going to ask, and be asked in your career. Probably one of the most popular, and common is “Should My Organization Use Technology X??”. What is Technology X you ask? Well it really depends on the day of the week and which way the wind is blowing. It could be anything. …
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Wait, the cloud goes down? As evidenced earlier this month, yes, yes it does. I know I noticed it when I went to stream a movie on Netflix and ended up getting an error message. Netflix wasn’t the only one impacted, when I realized I couldn’t stream a movie (I was trying to watch Hackers, …
Anyone who knows me knows I love to write, from blogging, to proposals, to novels, I love it all. If I was to break my career thus far into chapters, I think it would look something like this. Chapter 1 – First, I read it. Earlier in my career, I did a number of things. …
As many who are involved with OpenStack in some way, shape, or form know, the cadence for releases has been two a year since 2012. With the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver approaching in May, the Kilo release is imminent. OpenStack Kilo, is hitting some big milestones today before it is released on April 30th, a …
We’ve just entered 2015, and we’re working with OpenStack Juno, eagerly awaiting OpenStack Kilo, which will be out on April 30 of this year. The trendy thing would be to talk about how OpenStack has grown and evolved over the last year, 2014, but let’s dig a little deeper. Come with me into the OpenStack …
Free is an interesting term to use when we talk about virtualization platforms, especially the industry leading VMware ESXi. As hypervisors have become standard fare in the data center we are starting to see more questions come up about the costs. Microsoft made a decision to take the hypervisor out of the cost equation by …