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The Atomic Unit of Compute

This post is part of a series based on a presentation I did to the London VMware User Group on February 25th, 2010 about the reality of Enterprise scale internal cloud platforms. To find other posts in the series, just look for the tag “Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth”.

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Engage Support Early

This post is part of a series based on a presentation I did to the London VMware User Group on February 25th, 2010 about the reality of Enterprise scale internal cloud platforms. To find other posts in the series, just look for the tag “Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth”.

Last post I talked about challenging [...]

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Challenge Convention

This post is part of a series based on a presentation I did to the London VMware User Group on February 25th, 2010 about the reality of Enterprise scale internal cloud platforms. To find other posts in the series, just look for the tag “Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth”.

In the previous post, I talked [...]

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Garbage In / Garbage Out

This post is part of a series based on a presentation I did to the London VMware User Group on February 25th, 2010 about the reality of Enterprise scale internal cloud platforms. To find other posts in the series, just look for the tag “Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth”.

The notion of GIGO is of [...]

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Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

Well the London VMUG has come and gone, and I’ve had my 15 minutes of fame… actually maybe a little bit less, time was a bit short and I rushed it a little bit. As with most VMUGs, it’s hard to gauge the level of experience and size of environments in the room. To some [...]

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vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide PDF Edition!

A shameless self promotional post, but I never blogged about this when it was released and it’s never too late to do the right thing .
I personally have a huge preference for reading books in PDF format, a little while ago one of my favourite publishers APress had a deal whereby if you had [...]

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Next London VMUG, Feb 25th 2010 – I’m Presenting!

Yes that’s right, I was very flattered to be asked to present at the next London VMUG and just couldn’t say no to Piglet (illustrious London VMUG co-ordinator). The more people there, the more nervous I am bound to be so let’s have a massive showing and try to give me a nervous breakdown! If [...]

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