Posts Tagged ‘ infrastructure ’

allwynsequeira

VXLANs and the Cloud Infrastructure Suite…

September 6, 2011
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VXLANs and the Cloud Infrastructure Suite…

Phew, nothing like spending time at VMworld, which has become the new mecca for IT professionals everywhere – thanks again to everyone for the support and encouragement, egging us to keep on truckin’! In my last post , I talked about the need to have logical networks, edges and trust zones on a per tenant basis, and the need to map these onto provider networks that are increasingly becoming fast, fat and flat. At VMworld 2011, we announced some key advancements that make these concepts a reality; VMware and partner booths demonstrated a variety of Software Defined Networking solutions, leveraging VXLANs, vCloud Director, vShield and vSphere/vCenter, all part of the emerging Cloud Infrastructure Suite – we are getting closer to what Paul...

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@richardmcdougll

The Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Cloud Applications

August 21, 2010
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The Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Cloud Applications

Welcome to the VMware CTO community! And welcome to my discussion of cloud application architectures. There has been a significant amount of technology development in VMware’s application platforms in the last two years, and I’m looking forward to sharing some of the key aspects, including how our application and runtime platforms are being integrated with the underlying virtualization technology.   On a personal note, I’ve been in the application platforms and operating system technology space for 20 years. A significant part of my tenure was 14 years with Sun Microsystems where I focused on application and operating systems performance optimization, analysis and tools – working with all layers of the stack: application platform/databases, operating systems and hardware. I’m the author of “Resource Management”, “Solaris...

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