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  • Putting cloud computing to use: the virtual cloud network and virtual data center.
    • This post is the next in my series about how to put cloud computing to good use. It’s no good unless you can apply it! Much has been made recently about cloud computing being insecure, mostly due to cloud tenants (or prospective cloud tenants) not having the same control of their portion of the cloud network as they would having physical servers and network gear sitting in their own equipmen

  • Monday data center tidbits.
    • First up today is reading about virtual servers and virtual switches and the claim of each virtual server having it’s own virtual switch. I can’t imagine any virtualization platform requiring a virtual switch for every virtual server (the excellent Xen Cloud Platform that we use uses one virtual switch for every physical interface on the host server). This is either the result of horri

  • Friday data center tidbits.
    • First up is a story about cloud computing and virtualization wasting IT resources. The story says “Cloud-computing providers … provide a lot of power and flexibility on demand, but it takes too much time for a resource-constrained IT shop to set up or modify”. Um, it takes more time and effort to set up a cloud based virtual server than it does to spec, approve, buy, configure, a

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