[Update: 19 June 2009] Reports are coming out that Oracle is terminating Virtual Iron as a product, which changes things somewhat. How this affects the potential changes to the virtualisation market (especially for large enterprises) time will tell.
So here we are half way through 2009, virtualisation (virtualization) and cloud computing are hot, there are new [...]

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The next version of Ubuntu Linux (9.10 code named Karmic Koala) it has been announced,will be very cloud oriented. This starts with their continuation of work to make it easy to deploy to Amazon AWS EC2 but extends beyond  that to incorporate the Eucalyptus Project in their server version.
EUCALYPTUS, which stands for “Elastic [...]

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One of the large changes in IT departments over the past 3-5 years is the use of virtualisation for the building of test servers. In this post we shall describe how this can be enhanced through the use of internal cloud computing technology.

Most businesses test new software, they trial solutions promoted by vendors and test [...]

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The most common question we get in regard to virtualisation is “How much will it cost me?” which is a fair question to ask. In this post we shall give a example cost for a small to medium sized company. The sort of company that uses Microsoft Windows 2003 SBS for their server(s).
In this example [...]

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I was talking with a colleague the other day about cloud computing  and internal clouds and how they impact Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
The abstract is that SMEs have a lot to gain from building a “cloud compatible” infrastructure from the start.
After all, a SME is more likely to exerpience the need for rapid [...]

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Some time back my colleagues and I needed to build an example usage for server automation product Cassatt Collage (since renamed Cassatt Active Response ). It needed to be relatively portable, and yet show off as many of the bells and whistles as possible.
What we decided to do was build a “Medium Availability Cluster“.
(It appears [...]

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Rome was not built in a day, nor was a server farm. Much like cities, server farms/rooms can soon become crowded, congested and soon it is gridlock.
So why am I telling you this?
Because you can do things now with your servers to make it both quicker and easier to make changes; but also give [...]

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