Pools of Storage, Networking, and Compute resources comprise the essential elements of a cloud. In this first of four episodes on the topic, Robert Starmer, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO, explains some of the considerations for enabling these services of an Infrastructure as a Service offering– as may be enabled by software …
Battle of the Switches: OVS vs. Linux Bridge (or “Simplicity Rules!”)
I’ve gotta come right out and say it: Open Virtual Switch– or OVS– is the wrong switch for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). That’s not to say it’s the wrong switch for virtual, or even as a base layer integration for Software Defined Networks…but it is absolutely the wrong solution …
Video: The Cloud Value Proposition: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for Enterprise Users
Enterprise applications cannot be ported to a Cloud environment with out spending time and money on the transition- a lot of time and money. End of story? Underneath much of the datacenter functionality provided by ‘cloud’ is infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or the ability to create and delete, rapidly and on-demand- virtual …