Scratching an itch with aws-vault-url
I think that aws-vault is a really nice tool. It prevents you from saving your AWS credentials in plain text on your machines (which is always a good thing) Since I started using it – I found a number …
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It is funny where one gets the idea for a blog post from. I was sitting in a restaurant last month in San Jose, one of the only two kosher ones in the area, and I ordered the chef’s special. So it was …
vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure - An Update
My previous post vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure caused a decent amount of discussion on Twitter and comments on the blog. I am actually glad about that because it raised a point that I …
VMware Integrated OpenStack - Cost Analysis
VMware announced last week the launch of VIO and there are a number of things that I think people are missing and should be pointed out. The information I have taken is from the Datasheet and publicly …
vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure
A few days ago VMware (Mike Brown, Anil Kapur and Justin King are the authors) announced the updated document for the vCenter Server 5.5 Availability guide. I would like to make clear a few things …
The Multi-Cloud Future: Challenges and Benefits
This is a re-post of my article, originally published on The Ravello Blog. Over the last year, as enterprise awareness of the cloud has increased, more and more enterprises outsource their workload …
DevOps and the Fours Sons
I usually do not mix religion and technology together but there are places where they do have something in common. The Torah refers to four sons: One wise, one wicked, one simple and one who does not …
VMware and the Public Cloud – Frenemies
Historically, VMware – the pioneer in virtualization – has always been a software/solutions vendor. They were never in the business of selling hardware, they left that to the hardware vendors. With …
Adopting the Cloud? Importing vs. Building Your Enterprise VMs
This is a re-post of my article, originally published on The Ravello Blog. The cloud has brought a change in how we view and manage virtualization, especially for enterprises that need to deploy their …
The Difference between Dev + Ops
This one has been simmering for a while, so lets see where this rolls. DevOps (a portmanteau of development and operations) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration …