In the Press

2020, Jan 02 6 mins read

On this page you can find a list of publications I have authored, articles in which I have been quoted or in which I contributed content.

2017

Benchmarking Instances: The Balance Between Cost and Performance (September 20th, 2017 - CloudCheckr)
Choosing the Right Provisioning Tool: Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation (September 18th, 2017 - StratoScale)
OpenStack Alternatives (August 2, 2017 - StratoScale)
Hybrid Cloud Monitoring (July 24th, 2017)
The Cost-Aware Cloud Architect (July 24, 2017 - CloudChecker)
What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? Three Cloud Experts Answer (July 17, 2017 - StratoScale)
The Financial Impact of Moving from VMware to Amazon (May 8, 2017 - StratoScale)
From VMware to AWS: Popular Strategies for Migrating Applications (April 19, 2017 - StratoScale)
Changing Your Mindset from VMware to AWS (April 12, 2017 - StratoScale)
Using Your Infrastructure Better: How To Go Agile While Staying on Premises (April 11, 2017 - StratoScale)
The Modern Enterprise CIO as Broker, Innovation Force (March 2017 - StratoScale)
CIO’s Guide to Competing in a Real-Time, Always-On WorldIs Your Data Center Team Ready for What’s Next? (March 2017 - StratoScale)
VPC for Dummies (February 24th, 2017 - StratoScale)
Bootstrapping Your OpenStack Data Center with Terraform (February 17th, 2017 - StratoScale)
Getting Started With AWS Lambda: A Practical Guide (February 7th, 2017 - StratoScale)
Getting Started with AWS Lambda: 4 Use Cases (January 19, 2017 - StratoScale)
How to Automate the Export of AWS EC2 to Your OpenStack Cloud (January 18, 2017 - StratoScale)
[Step-by-Step Guide] How to Export Your EC2 Instances to Your OpenStack Cloud (January 5, 2017 - StratoScale)

2016

Backup and Recovery in the Cloud: The Application Level (December 20, 2016 - StratoScale)
Backup and Recovery in AWS (November 28, 2016 - StratoScale)
Implementing Horizontal and Vertical Scalability in Cloud Computing (November 16, 2016 - StratoScale)
Synchronizing Data Between AWS and OpenStack (October 20, 2016 - StratoScale)
Recognizing Active User Contributors to OpenStack (October 12, 2016 - Opensource.com)
Sizing Your Cloud – Comparing AWS Instances to their OpenStack On-Premises Counterparts (StratoScale - October 3, 2016)
Hypervisors in Cloud Computing – What’s Out There? (StratoScale - September 28, 2016)
Best Practices for OpenStack Heat Templates (StratoScale - September 13, 2016)
Cloud-init: What is it and Why it’s Important to Your Cloud Environment (StratoScale - August 31, 2016)
Separation of Critical Resources in OpenStack. Tenants? Aggregates? Availability Zones? (StratoScale - August 15th, 2016)
Creating a Highly Available Load Balancer in OpenStack (instead of LBaaS) (StratoScale - August 3, 2016)
Load Balancing in OpenStack without LBaaS (StratoScale - July 12, 2016)
Interpreting Your Slack Data With the ELK Stack (Logz.io - May 19, 2016)
OpenStack Monitoring – Liberty with Sensu, Part 2 (StratoScale - April 27, 2016)
OpenStack Monitoring – Liberty with Sensu, Part 1 (StratoScale - March 31, 2016)
Tutorial: How to Use Terraform to Deploy OpenStack Workloads (Stratoscale - March 9, 2016) - also on OpenStack SuperUser
How to Install the ELK Stack on OpenStack (Logz.io February 23, 2016)
OpenStack Certification – The Where, the How and Why? (Stratoscale - February 3, 2016)

2015

Experts weigh in: VMworld 2015 predictions (Techtarget - August 25, 2015)
Integrating OpenStack into your Jenkins workflow (Opensource.com - May 12, 2015)
What to know when shopping for virtualization systems management tools (Techtarget - April 29, 2015)
Tread carefully: Private cloud challenges abound (Techtarget - February 26, 2015)

2014

Server virtualization trends and predictions for 2015 (Techtarget - December 17, 2014)
The Best Business IT Blogs Of 2014 {INFOGRAPHIC}(Exigent, August 14, 2014)
Expectations high for a VMware converged infrastructure product (Techtarget, July 25, 2014)
The OpenStack Architecture Design Book (Openstack, July, 2014)
Why is the public cloud winning over in-house IT? (Techtarget - June 25, 2014)
Converged infrastructure brings management ease but technical limits (Techtarget - April 20, 2014)
Top 100 Cloud Professionals to Follow on G+ (GetVOIP - April 23, 2014)
Better IOPS in a flash: Why now is the time to start using SSD storage (Techtarget - Feb. 21, 2014)
Who’s Who in Virtual Networking (WANSPEAK - Feb. 12, 2014)

2013

Server virtualization trends to expect in 2014 (Techtarget - Dec. 14, 2013)
Tackling virtual server security and compliance challenges (Techtarget - Nov. 5, 2013)
Chosen as one of the 50 Must-Read IT Blogs 2013 (Biztech - Sep. 12, 2013)
VMware VSAN: Intriguing But A Ways Off (Network Computing - Sep. 9, 2013)
Will open source hypervisors ever be popular among enterprises? (Techtarget - Sep. 5, 2013)
Chosen as one of the Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts On Twitter (Huffington Post - August 14, 2013)
Expert predictions for what to expect at VMworld 2013 (Techtarget July 26, 2013)
VMware’s free vCenter Certificate Automation Tool simplifies updates (Techtarget - June 24, 2013)
VMware’s vCenter Certificate Automation Tool is too little, too late (TechTarget - May 02, 2013)
How do you know if your business needs to build a private cloud? (TechTarget - Apr. 29, 2013)
VMware to compete against AWS with vCloud Hybrid Cloud Service (TechTarget - Mar. 13, 2013)
It’s a growing trend, but are multiple hypervisors the right answer? (TechTarget - Feb. 25, 2013)
Experts weigh in on CTO Herrod’s departure, future of VMware (TechTarget - Jan. 21, 2013)

2012

Server virtualization trends and predictions to watch for in 2013 (TechTarget - Dec. 21, 2012)
VMware issues SSO patch, new SSL documentation (TechTarget Oct. 29, 2012)
Examining the value of a virtualization certification (TechTarget - Oct. 24, 2012)
vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-On problems dog VMware shops (TechTarget - Oct. 16, 2012)
Was it smart for VMware to undo vSphere pricing changes and kill vRAM? (TechTarget - Sep. 25, 2012)
VMworld 2012 expert predictions (TechTarget - Aug. 16, 2012)
What are your biggest virtualization challenges? (TechTarget - Jun. 26, 2012)
VMware vs. Microsoft: Ferocious pricing war from the user perspective (TechTarget - Jun. 22, 2012)
VMware vs. Microsoft: Cloud management is the new battlefield (TechTarget - Jun. 19, 2012)
Are Hyper-V savings worth the cost of a VMware rip and replace? (TechTarget - Jun. 19, 2012)
Server virtualization predictions for 2012 (TechTarget - May. 30, 2012)
What’s in your virtualization home lab? (TechTarget - Apr. 2012)
Devising in-house workarounds to solve virtualization problems (TechTarget - Feb. 2012)
VMware shops expect vCenter high availability improvements, federation (TechTarget - Jan. 18, 2012)

2011

VMware vSphere 5 upgrades on hold until next year (TechTarget - Dec. 02, 2011)
Quest takes aim at VMware with VKernel acquisition (TechTarget - Nov. 17, 2011)
What’s your most terrifying virtualization management story? (TechTarget - Oct. 2011)
Users to VMware: Stick to your knitting (TechTarget - Sep. 13, 2011)
What are you looking forward to at VMworld 2011? (TechTarget - Aug. 2011)
Plug-ins breathe new life into VMware vCenter Orchestrator (TechTarget - Jun. 22, 2011)
VMware acquisitions: Moving beyond virtualization (TechTarget - Jun. 2011)
VMware users eye changes to Update Manager (TechTarget - Apr. 21, 2011)
Software licensing models need to get with the times (TechTarget - Apr. 2011)
vCloud Director no shoo-in for VMware Lab Manager shops (TechTarget - Feb. 23, 2011)
Is the virtualization hypervisor a commodity? (TechTarget - Feb 2011)
VMware users vexed by quiet changes in PowerCLI 4.1 (TechTarget - Jan. 06, 2011)

2010

VMware shops grapple with VM stall (TechTarget - Dec. 14, 2010)
VMware virtualization management plans mystify users (TechTarget - Dec. 14, 2010)