With the rise of organizations moving to public cloud, many also need to understand how to build and provide disaster recovery of their services outside of the public cloud vendor. Even with more of the hyperscalers now also providing new hybrid cloud services, what is the difference and what kind of functionality do each of …
What does your hybrid cloud look like? and building a cloud exit plan Read More »
Looking back at the announcements at Google Next, Microsoft Ignite and now AWS Re:Invent the trend is clear, they want to sell us their PaaS services within our own datacenter (or Private Cloud). Since many companies today which cannot adopt or see that Public Cloud is not something they are aiming towards are always looking …
In my previous blog post I did a short overview of the different cloud vendors, a bit about their focus areas and also a bit about strengths and weaknesses. The blogpost can be found here –>http://bit.ly/2CrBgZA .In this post I want to focus more on IaaS and the offerings surrounding it, first I want describe …
Cloud Wars – IBM vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon IaaS Read More »
Previously I have blogged about the underlying architecture and features which is going to be part of Azure Stack → http://msandbu.org/what-is-azure-stack-and-want-is-the-architecture/ Microsoft recently announced the launch of Azure Stack as well → https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-stack-is-ready-to-order-now/ Responsibility model in Cloud Now I want to focus a bit on one aspect that was not included in the previous blogpost, …
Microsoft has always been heavily committed to the datacenter and has a large footprint with Hyper-V & System Center. If we dial the clock back five years, Microsoft released Azure Pack, which was their first big attempt at a complete integrated private cloud offering and which was meant as a private offering of Microsoft Azure. …
What is Azure Stack and what is the architecture? Read More »
Now after been dabling with Azure Stack for some time since the preview, there has been one thing that has been bugging me, which is the networking flow. Hence I decided to create an overview of the network topology and how things are connected and how traffic flow is. Important to remember that Azure Stack …
Azure Stack networking overview and use of BGP and VXLAN Read More »
Well, Since the release of Azure Stack preview earlier today, I’ve been quite the busy bee… The only problem is that I didn’t have the adequate hardware to play around with it… Or so I thought.. I setup a virtual 2016 server on my Vmware Workstation. Added some SATA based disks since I know this …
Running Azure Stack on Vmware workstation nested Read More »
There is no denying that Microsoft Azure is a success story, from being the lame silverlight portal with limited capabilities that it was to become a global force to be reckoned with in the cloud marketspace. Later today Microsoft is releasing their first tech preview of their Azure Stack. Which allow us to bring the …
Windows Azure Stack–What about the infrastructure Story? Read More »
So this is my recap on what has happend at Ignite, sorted by subject of course but the focus and strategy at Microsoft is clear! “MOVE TO OUR CLOUD” of course they did not leave out the guys on the floor as well. Microsoft announced numerous changes to their Azure platform, including more of an …
What new at Ignite! Nano Server, Containers, Azure Stack, OMS, ATA and so on Read More »
