Recently, I attended Cloud Field Day 7 and to my delight, VMware presented some really great technical sessions on VMware Cloud on AWS, which is one of my favourite subjects and an area I focus on heavily at work. The session I am talking about in this post covered some of the enhancements that are [...]
There has been a major shift in how applications are developed, tested and deployed in recent years. Such is the need for speed in today's fast-paced product release cycle that in addition to development methodologies, it has also changed the architecture in which they are deployed. Transition to this new development paradigm will be gradual [...]
Object storage is plentiful, durable and cheap. That makes it the ideal storage mechanism for long-term or archive storage. In fact, it's so cost-efficient that many traditional storage appliances, primarily targetted at on-premises environments, also make use of object-based storage to achieve cost-efficiencies. With all this data stored on object storage and on a cloud [...]
This week, I will be attending Cloud Field Day 6. It is one of the Tech Field Day events that is focussed mainly on cloud technologies. I love attending these events as delegates get to meet vendors in an exclusive setting which is ideal for focussed discussions about their products and what customer problems they [...]
I vividly remember the days when there was absolutely no integration between software products from the same company, let alone different companies. Automation has progressed a huge amount since then and companies are keen to expose the functionality of their software products through standard interfaces, most commonly being REST API. While those interfaces have helped [...]
Recently, I've been writing a series of posts on the journey to cloud migration and they're being published on OrangeMatter. Being on a different site, you might be missing out so here's a quick post to keep track of them all. I'll update this post with links as they are published. There will be six [...]
Late last week, I noticed this blog by Jeff Barr and almost jumped with joy. I am blogging about it today to ensure you don't miss it as it's a significant capability in terms of cost reduction for many auto-scaled applications deployed on the AWS platform. Why? We all know spot instances are brilliant when [...]
While attending VMworld US this time, I was invited by Stephen to participate in Tech Field Day Extra. I had recently enjoyed Cloud Field Day very much so I had to say yes. Actually, this presentation wasn't one that I was actually scheduled to attend but I happened to be there at the time so [...]
VMworld is VMware's main yearly event and the time when it brings out whatever is new with the products. Naturally, VMware has a few updates in store for this one too and we as bloggers were fortunate enough to get a glimpse of it before coming here. The updates fall broadly into three categories: Storage [...]
For Cloud Field Day 4, we were invited to Cohesity and were greeted with a very nice breakfast and who would have thought cake could taste that good, that early in the morning! Cohesity has now become a veteran of Tech Field Day events and knows exactly what/how to present to those delegates. While the [...]