It seems to be cucumber time as we call it in the Netherlands, for those unfamiliar with the term check wikipedia. A lot of news posts but a lot of repetive info. I guess a lot of bloggers are on a holiday, especially the dutch bloggers have been awful quiet lately. I did however manage to find 5 great articles again. Read them and leave a comment at the source articles as this is fuel for new content.
- Scott Lowe – UCS Class Wrap-Up
Last week’s partner boot camp for the Cisco Unified Computing System
(UCS) was very helpful. It has really helped me gain a better
understanding of the solution, how it works, and its advantages and
disadvantages. I’d like to share some random bits of information I
gathered during the class here in the hopes that it will serve as a
useful add-on to the formal training. - Simon Gallagher – VMware ESX 5
As the VMware vendor and partner ecosystem grows will it stifle
growth in the core product? – I see this happening with Microsoft –
they don’t want to produce an all singing and dancing core product as
there are literally thousands of ISV’s that they don’t necessarily want
to put out of business; so Microsoft core products are “good-enough”
but for more advanced features you turn to an ISV (think Terminal
Services & Citrix)
So, open question really – here’s my starter for 10 – What would you like to see in ESX 5? - Duncan Epping – Primary and Secondary nodes, pick one!
Now that makes you wonder what else is possible… Lets start with a
warning. I don’t know if this is supported. Lets assume it is not. Also
keep in mind that the supported limit of primaries is 5, I repeat 5.
This is a soft limit, so you can manually add a 6th, but this is not supported. Now here’s the magic… - Daniel Eason – Virtualisation within today's IT Frameworks
Virtualisation and the underlying technology that supports the virtual landscape is deployed as a point solution, this is also the case for the example technologies that are changing the shape of datacentres, you procure them and you can solve common datacentre problems. Virtualisation ecosystems as in the software and components that you can deploy however can reduce your process by default and with very little need to implement any fandangle add on or interfaces, however you still need to ensure that this potential is exploited correctly. - Chris Wolf – Catalyst Server Virtualization Wrap-up Part I / 2
After taking the weekend to catch my breath and get some much needed rest, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the highlights from last week’s Catalyst North America conference. I’d like to start with recaps of last week’s opening day cloud and virtualization sessions.
