Microsoft’s Private Cloud Formation
17 December 2009 | Virtualization Review | Original Article
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Tags: Citrix, Microsoft Partner to Offer Disaster Recovery for Virtual Environments
15 December 2009 | eWEEK | Original Article
In its Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix is integrating its StorageLink Site Recovery feature, which …
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Virtualization alternatives to VMware increasingly popular among customers
07 December 2009 | eChannelLine | Original Article
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It’s a private cloud; it’s a public cloud… No, it’s a hybrid cloud?
Internal clouds are still the predominant choice, with nearly 60% of those organizations using or evaluating opting for the internal model. And every indication we have says that this is the way IT organizations are looking at it today. It makes total sense — it is the most natural step with virtualization already being the enabling technology, and already in place in many cases. Virtualization is the foundation of internal cloud computing, much like some kind of multi-tenancy model has to be the foundation of external cloud computing. An interesting side note, VMware is the most mentioned technology provider in regards to cloud computing. Amazon is second, and Microsoft, thir, d. One could say that VMware represents the internal cloud computing model; Amazon the external cloud computing model; and Microsoft the development platform. And, yes I agree, there is still lots of work necessary on all these elements.
But I digress. The notion of hybrid clouds needs some definition around it. One of the other panelist, Ping Li of Accel partners, discussed the difference between intra- and inter- . The idea of hybrid clouds in an intra-application way (one application stretched across internal and external clouds) is of such complexity it will slow everything to a glacial pace (my words). What is more likely to occur is an inter-application model where some applications are internal, some are external. To the extent they need to interoperate; there needs to be integration between the two, but they are essentially two separate applications. This is really the more viable model of a hybrid cloud, and from my point of view, the simpler of the two. Again, the choice of model will be based on business needs. The research we are now embarking on will start telling us the story directly from the people that matter – the organizations out there that have a business problem and see a solution in cloud computing, whether that is internal, external or a hybrid model.
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