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Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a big outage. I mean BIG. Four days of problems, affecting untold number of sites, some of them major names on the Internet. One blog called it the “Amazonpocalypse.” In the cloud world, this was the equivalent of an H-bomb going off in your back yard. Predictably, over…

This is a great question, and one that many of us in IT tend to minimize when adopting new and more efficient technologies. Sometimes the simple cost savings calculations distract us: “If I can put twenty VM’s on one server and save $60K in overall cost of ownership compared to my previous environment, then I’m…

Wow, that was quick! Previously, I wrote about how IANA had just allocated the last block of IPv4 address space to the regional Internet registries (RIRs). At that time, APNIC had just requested two /8 blocks, which brought the remaining number of /8 blocks down to five. By mutual agreement of the RIRs, that triggered…

There was an announcement by IBM earlier this week regarding updates to their Tivoli product portfolio. This update seems on the surface to offer current IBM customers with a nice new tool box of tactically focused capabilities to improve management of their virtual environments. Although there admittedly is little detail in these type press releases,…

APNIC just announced that IANA has allocated to APNIC the last two allocatable /8 IPv4 address blocks. There are five remaining /8 blocks left, but looks like various RIRs have agreed that when this point is reached, each of the five RIRs is automatically allocated one of the remaining five /8 blocks. Thus, we're done.…

The Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC) was formed just over a year ago by visionaries in the cloud computing space including Eric Pulier- CEO of ServiceMesh, Sean Kelley - CIO of the Asset Management Group at Deutsche Bank, and others. Since inception, the group has grown significantly in membership to include over 20 large enterprises…

A couple weeks ago, I posted about the impending IPv4 address exhaustion problem. Well, the day is rapidly approaching. The IPv4 address exhaustion counter at potaroo.net is now showing 7 days until "X-day." This page is a great one if you want the details behind the IPv4 address allocation system and what X-day really implies…

We heard some exciting news from Amazon on Wednesday: the introduction of their “Elastic Beanstalk” product for EC2. The Elastic Beanstalk is Amazon’s step into the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) market, having previously focused more in the IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) sector. The announcement also validates the ServiceMesh “Agile IT operating model” message and reflects an accelerating shift to…

Bernard Golden has 10 predictions focused on cloud as it relates to “Cloud Service Providers” and “End Users” (Bernard is author of Virtualization for Dummy’s).  I selected Bernard’s list in combination with James Staten of Forrester, because I felt both of them gave insight that obviously contained significant industry knowledge and insight, not just positioning.…

Predictions, we all make them, and sometimes we’re even right. In the case of Forrester Research, I think James Staten’s “Cloud Predictions for 2011” is one of the two best I’ve read. His list consists of 13 specific predictions, and in this blog I’m going to address just five of them. I know it’s already…