Back when I first started using AWS in 2010 I had a couple of EC2 instances running across a few regions for some web hosting clients I was managing at the time. After a few years, I got rid of the instances and supplementary services as they where no longer required. For the next two […] Read More
A few months ago I was lucky enough to spend time with a couple of the founders of Runecast, Stanimir Markov and Ched Smokovic and got to know a little more about their real time analytics platform for VMware based infrastructure. Soon after that I downloaded and deployed it in my lab and have been […] Read More
Part 1 – Building a Blogging Platform Having looked at hosting platform and operating system suggestions in Part 1, to conclude this two part series I’ll talk about how to make WordPress work harder for you through its plugin ecosystem as well as go through the site optimizations and caching improvements offered by CloudFlare. To finish off […] Read More
CloudPhysics have been a little quiet over the past twelve or so months with focus shifting from presenting data via Cards to Dashboards and also focusing on delivering on boarding solutions for managed service provider partners that has resulted in their channel business growing successfully. Before VMworld they announced the release of their Cost Calculator for […] Read More
Late last year CloudPhysics released their VM Exploration mode feature which allowed for a detailed look into what was happening holistically to a VM with the ability to view key metrics and VM related events over an extended period of time. Last weekend CloudPhsyics extended this to also include Hosts. Extending Exploration Mode to include Hosts […] Read More
CloudPhysics are still quietly working away in the background continuing to improve their analytics service…and apart from recently announcing record results for 2015 have started to send out a weekly digests which gives a great snapshot of whats happened in your vSphere environment over the course of the previous week. The digest contains the following: […] Read More