Cloud Computing

I was asked during a disaster recovery session if the cloud could be used as a destination for backups. I guess this question could be simply answered as yes. I’m sure you already know that storage in the cloud is being used for data backup and on some scale for disaster recovery. While I...
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CloudStack is open source software written in java that is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform. CloudStack current supports the most popular open source hypervisors VMware, Oracle VM, KVM, XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform.
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VMware has been focused on virtualizing infrastructure for a long time. VMware expanded there reach into enabling cloud computing and now they're interested in the end user application delivery space with Project Horizon and VMware Appblast. VMware is also aiming to manage end user data as well with Project Octopus. Appblast and Project Horizon...
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Microsoft seems to have something to say about being virtualization focused in a cloud age. Server virtualization alone does not make a cloud. Microsoft seems to be hinting that a certain company (VMware) is dishing out virtualization to it's customers and calling it cloud.
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If you haven't heard Citrix acquired Cloud.com developer of CloudStack which is an open source Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing platform. More details on this can be read here. I have deployed and use CloudStack with open source hypervisors, KVM and Xen, with great success and ease.
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Cloud Computing is all the rage these days and after drilling into many of the different services and solutions I noticed that opensource seems to prevail and propel the cloud. Before I go on my rant about opensource and it’s relationship to the cloud let me define a few things. By now most people...
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