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Posts Tagged virtualization

VMworld 2008

Just got back from Vegas for VMworld. By my calculations I’m only $25 down after six poker tournaments, but this is not a post about gambling. Instead I’ll offer a brief analysis of what I saw and experienced.
Clouds are on the horizon
From the cloud-themed t-shirts and signage of the event, to VMware’s vCloud initiative announcement, [...]


What is Cloud Computing?

The term Cloud Computing is on the rise according to google trends. But what does it all mean? Just like “Web 2.0″ it’s an overloaded phrase with tons of connotations and many attempts at definition. While perusing a cloud blog by James Urquhart, I was inspired to try to define the term myself. So here’s [...]


Virtualization slides featured on SlideShare homepage

My RailsConf slides on virtualization with Elastic Server On-Demand have been featured on the slideshare homepage! Over two hundred views so far. Great to see people are really interested in this stuff. I’ve embedded the presentation in this blog post:

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Virtualization BoF at RailsConf

I will be doing a BoF session on virtualization and Elastic Server On-Demand at RailsConf on Saturday. If you have some stories to share about how you’re using virtualization for your projects, please come on by and contribute! If you’d like to be mentioned in the intro presentation please send me a couple lines on [...]


Infoworld names CohesiveFT in top 10 startups for 2008

It’s an exciting day for us here at CohesiveFT as Infoworld named us a Top 10 startup for 2008! It’s nice to be recognized for the hard work we continue to put in to make Elastic Server On Demand a highly valuable service. We’ve recently launched a customer forum at GetSatisfaction so please come and [...]


The Future of Virtualization

Take a peek over at the CohesiveFT Elastic Server blog for a cool riff on the history and future of virtualized computing.
…you can attain true server agility because you are doing “Zero to Virtual”; building from component libraries straight to virtual servers in any VM format, with no initial physical footprint. The big win [...]


Elastic Server On Demand relaunched

“We at CFT are proud to announce the latest refresh of our Elastic Server On-Demand service.
Elastic Servers(tm) are application stacks which can be dynamically constructed from component libraries and delivered in many virtualization-ready formats (VMware, Xen, Parallels). We call them “elastic” because it is just the amount of components you want for a task, [...]