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Delivering The Cloud On A Vblock: A Story In Pictures
One of the early trends I am seeing, in 2013, as I meet with various enterprise customers is the increase in questions around the Cloud. Their questions can generally be summed up as follows: “Should...
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Go Public (Cloud)!
Back in January, Silicon Angle posted an article highlighting security challenges that Amazon Web Services (AWS) faces as it tries to make inroads into the Enterprise. In particular, the article...
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Should OpenStack Stop Chasing AWS?
Introduction The topic of how OpenStack should relate to Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been a source of furious debate in the OpenStack community, with some advocating direct mano-a-mano competition...
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Some New OpenStack Content
One of the things I enjoy most about being part of the OpenStack community is the amount of content available (sometime too much content) about the technology and the ecosystem. I’ve had the...
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Under The Covers Of The Platform9 Managed OpenStack Architecture
As many of you know, I recently joined a company called Platform9 as their Director of Technical Marketing. Our mission is to make private clouds easy for any enterprise at any scale. This means...
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Making OpenStack Upgrades Easy: Think Cloud-Native
Anyone who has ever attempted to upgrade a cloud platform, be it from Microsoft, OpenStack, or VMware, will readily attest that doing so in a live production environment is not for the faint of heart....
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OpenStack And The State Of Cloud Computing: A User’s Perspective
At last week’s OpenStack Summit, my company, Platform9, had the opportunity to present on some work we’ve done to make our OpenStack solution work in existing environments, also known as a...
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AWS re:Invent 2016 Tuesday Night Live Recap: “Don’t Try This At Home”
I was not able to attend AWS re:Invent 2016 but decided to blog about the general sessions since they are being live streamed. If you are interested, please click here to read my AWS re:Invent 2016...
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AWS re:Invent 2016 First Keynote Recap: Andy Jassy Is Your Shazam
If you are interested, please click here to read my AWS re:Invent Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton recap and here to read my AWS re:Invent 2016 second keynote recap from Thursday. I grew up...
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AWS re:Invent 2016 Second Keynote Recap: We Are All Transformers
If you are interested, please click here to read my AWS re:Invent Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton recap and here to read my AWS re:Invent 2016 first keynote recap from Wednesday. After a...
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Starting Something New: The Learning AWS Blog
The Learning AWS Blog I believe we are still in the early days of public cloud adoption and most users are just starting to learn what platforms like AWS can do for them. My goal with this new blog is...
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The AWS Love/Hate Relationship with Data Gravity
I received the e-mail above from Amazon Web Services after recently signing up for another test account. The e-mail had me thinking about the impact of data gravity on AWS, both positively and...
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AWS 101: Learning About Regions and Availability Zones
In their most recent earnings call, Amazon reported that their Amazon Web Services division has reached a $14.2 billion run rate. As impressive as that is, AWS and the entire cloud market still only...
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AWS 201: Learning About Default VPC
To set the stage for explaining Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Clouds, I previously walked through AWS Regions and Availability Zones in another blog post. With that as the foundation, we can...
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Thoughts On The AWS Outage
Tuesday, February 28th, was a bad day for AWS and for AWS users who relied on the US-East-1 Region in Northern Virginia to run their business and/or to serve their customers. I won’t rehash what...
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Some New OpenStack Content
One of the things I enjoy most about being part of the OpenStack community is the amount of content available (sometime too much content) about the technology and the ecosystem. I’ve had the...
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Under The Covers Of The Platform9 Managed OpenStack Architecture
As many of you know, I recently joined a company called Platform9 as their Director of Technical Marketing. Our mission is to make private clouds easy for any enterprise at any scale. This means...
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My Next Chapter: Something Old… Something New
Some friends recently remarked that I have been usually quiet on my blog and even on social media the past couple of months. However, that is about to change with what I am announcing today. The...
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AWS 301: Creating A Custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – Networking
A while back, I wrote a blog post walking through the components of a default AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Now that I am at Rubrik and have more freedom to continue, I will go through how to...
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AWS 301: Creating A Custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – Security
If you haven’t yet, I recommend reading the other posts in this series before proceeding. AWS 101: Learning About Regions and Availability Zones AWS 202: Learning About Default VPC AWS 301: Creating A...
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