Archive for the ‘virtualisation’ Category

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPCenables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWScompute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources

five technologies with the greatest impact on business in the 00’s

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

eric knorr of infoworld has chosen five technologies with the greatest impact on business in the 00’s

  • linux
  • xml
  • server virtualisation
  • ria
  • san’s

Monitis Cloud Monitoring

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Monitis All-in-One Monitoring Platform
Monitis is a 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution which consolidates back-end, application, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service. The platform is easily customizable and may be used for managing of all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance.

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) brings Amazon EC2-like infrastructure capabilities inside the firewall. The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is powered by Eucalyptus, an open source implementation for the emerging standard of EC2. This solution is designed to simplify the process of building and managing an internal cloud for businesses of any size, thereby enabling companies to create their own self-service infrastructure.

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BitNami OpenSuse Stacks

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

A BitNami Stack is an integrated software bundle that includes a web application and all of its required components (web server, database, language runtime), so it is ready to run out of the box. The Stacks can be deployed as traditional Native Installers, Virtual Machine Images or Cloud Images.

Eurocloud

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Eurocloud is a new pan European SaaS and Cloud Computing business network that has already attracted Amazon, OpSource and SalesForce.

VI Toolkit

Monday, October 12th, 2009

The VI-Toolkit.com website has been created by Wil van Antwerpen in order to be able to store knowledge about Virtual Infrastructure and related VMware products.

At start, the site this will contain lots of links to information on the internet and have general information about how-to solve particular problems, but over time the intention is to move the focus slightly over to managing your Virtual Infrastructure using the toolkits available from VMware.

OpSource introduces the OpSource Cloud

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

OpSource introduces OpSourceCloud a secure enterprise cloud virtualised by VMWare.

To VT or not VT

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Does your CPU support the VT-x feature needed for KVM virtualisation ?

Now you can find out at http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx. Its not as simple as you may think since some Atoms do (Z520)  and some Xeons dont (L3014) !

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources.