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What happens after public cloud?

AWS and Azure have won the public cloud race. Some might think that it’s too early to call it. But some might also be wrong. The fact is, AWS is the 10k lbs. gorilla in the …

Ned Bellavance 11 min read
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VMware on Azure - You're still doing it wrong

Sigh. There’s an old adage that I always come back to. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you should. In this case I am thinking about the recent …

Ned Bellavance 5 min read
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VMware on AWS - You're doing it wrong

This is going to be a controversial post I am almost certain. Basically, I am going to argue that the whole premise behind running VMware on AWS is fundamentally flawed and not a …

Ned Bellavance 6 min read
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Everything is Broken...Still

Earlier this week Amazon Web Service’s Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, was experiencing higher than normal error rates in the us-east-1 region, i.e. S3 was down. …

Ned Bellavance 4 min read
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Trends for 2017

The end of 2016 is here, and I think many of us are breathing a sigh of relief. The year has not been kind to some, and has been described as a “dumpster fire” by …

Ned Bellavance 8 min read
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Automating Snapshot Creation and Copying in AWS

Building IaaS in the cloud is becoming more popular. And part of building IaaS is providing some level of disaster recovery. After spending the last few weeks working in AWS, I …

Ned Bellavance 3 min read
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AutoScale Groups with Domain Join

When it comes to AWS, it often feels like Windows is a second class citizen. I have been doing work in the Azure public cloud for a long time, where the situation is somewhat …

Ned Bellavance 3 min read