Home -- Virtualization Review. Microsoft Global Foundation Services | Blogs. Cloud Computing. Deloitte Augments Cloud Computing Services, Appoints Paul Clemmons as Practice Leader With an objective to provide expanded services to clients, Deloitte announced that it has expanded its Cloud Computing Practice and has appointed Paul Clemmons as the Practice Leader. Cavium Networks, Caswell Team to Deliver MMBS Powered by OCTEON Processors Cavium Networks has announced collaboration with Caswell, a provider of communication appliances, to deliver multi-motherboard blade servers (MMBS) powered by an array of OCTEON processors for energy efficient cloud computing applications. The company investigated a wide variety of processor architectures and technologies to meet the demands of data center and service provider customers for implementing their visions of cloud computing, said Polo Huang, vice president at Caswell. Ortsbo Offering Cloud Computing Real Time Translation Application on Microsoft Windows Azure Platform NaviSite CSO Discusses Plans to Expand Cloud Service Offerings.
Blog. Where Are the Network Virtual Appliances? Hobbled By the Virtual. Allan Leinwand from GigaOm wrote a great article asking “Where are the network virtual appliances?” This was followed up by another excellent post by Rich Miller. Allan sets up the discussion describing how we’ve typically plumbed disparate physical appliances into our network infrastructure to provide discrete network and security capabilities such as load balancers, VPNs, SSL termination, firewalls, etc. He then goes on to describe the stunted evolution of virtual appliances: To be sure, some networking devices and appliances are now available in virtual form. Switches and routers have begun to move toward virtualization with VMware’s vSwitch, Cisco’s Nexus 1000v, the open source Open vSwitch and routers and firewalls running in various VMs from the company I helped found, Vyatta. I’ve written about this many, many times. Why? What does this mean? Situation normal. /Hoff. Life in the Cloud: The Cloud Computing Opportunity by the Number.
How big is the opportunity for cloud computing? A question asked at pretty well every IT conference these days. Whatever the number, it's a big one. Let's break down the opportunity by the numbers available today. By 2011 Merrill Lynch says the cloud computing market will reach $160 billion. The number of physical servers in the World today: 50 million. By 2013, approximately 60 percent of server workloads will be virtualized By 2013 10 percent of the total number of physical servers sold will be virtualized with an average of 10 VM's per physical server sold.
At 10 VM's per physical host that means about 80-100 million virtual machines are being created per year or 273,972 per day or 11,375 per hour. 50 percent of the 8 million servers sold every year end up in data centers, according to a BusinessWeek report The data centers of the dot-com era consumed 1 or 2 megawatts. 98% of the market is controlled by everyone else. Hosting / Data center providers by top 5 regions around the world: 33,157.
The Hypervisor Platform Shuffle: Pushing The Networking & Securi. Last night we saw coverage by Carl Brooks Jo Maitland (sorry, Jo) of an announcement from RackSpace that they were transitioning their IaaS Cloud offerings based on the FOSS Xen platform and moving to the commercially-supported Citrix XenServer instead: Jaws dropped during the keynote sessions [at Citrix Synergy] when Lew Moorman, chief strategy officer and president of cloud services at Rackspace said his company was moving off Xen and over to XenServer, for better support. Rackspace is the second largest cloud provider after Amazon Web Services. AWS still runs on Xen. People really shouldn’t be that surprised. What we’re playing witness to is the evolution of the next phase of provider platform selection in Cloud environments. Hosting provider Terremark announced a cloud-based compliance service using Citrix technology.
Demand for services will drive hypervisor-specific platform choices on the part of provider with networking and security really driving many of those opportunities. Ewan.to | Ewan's blog. Perspectives.