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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Technology Short Take #30

Scott Lowe

Although this post is a bit older (it’s from September of last year), it’s still an interesting comparison of both OpenStack and CloudStack. Although these posts are storage-related, the real focus is on how the storage stack is implemented in a virtualization solution, which is why I’m putting them in this section.