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At IBM Impact which was going on the same time as Data Center World in LV, IBM presented Docker used to run NetflixOSS. If you know the NetflixOSS, you’ll recognize the modules - ZuuL, Asgard, Cassandra, and the infamous Chaos Monkey. Docker is throughout the system.
Back in Jan 2014, IBM presented at NetflixOSS’s event on running on IBM Softlayer.
One of the reasons why VMs succeeded and VMware is it virtualized a server. Which allows the server hugger habit to morph into server VM huggers. The trouble about this is VMs are large which brings overhead for deployment, storage, management. Which is great if you are selling management tools like VMware. Now that users are realizing VMs don’t save as much money as they thought, there is a clear need for something better.
This where Dockers comes in.
The server huggers are in the past. The current and future has huggers maybe hugging their services for users instead of servers.
This move can also be illustrated by the move from old way of shipping goods and the use of containers which supports abstractions of concerns, automation, efficiency, and bigger ecosystem
Why go through this effort? If you want to have a future that looks like this. Where your services can be easily deployed to a range of cloud environments including your own private cloud.
Microsoft posts on how they are assigning non-US IPv4 addresses to US customers given they have run out of IPv4 addresses.
IPv4 address space has been fully assigned in the United States, meaning there is no additional IPv4 address space available. This requires Microsoft to use the IPv4 address space available to us globally for the addressing of new services. The result is that we will have to use IPv4 address space assigned to a non-US region to address services which may be in a US region. It is not possible to transfer registration because the IP space is allocated to the registration authorities by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
At times your service may appear to be hosted in a non-US location.
Service and Data are located where deployed
It is important to note that the IP address registration authority does not equate to IP address physical location (i.e., you can have an IP address registered in Brazil but allocated to a device or service physically located in Virginia). Thus when you deploy to a U.S. region, your service is still hosted in U.S. and your customer data will remain in the U.S. as detailed in our Trust Center: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/privacy/
We are currently working with a few major IP geo-location database companies to update the location of these IPs which should help alleviate the issues this may be causing.
It’s too bad in this post, no mention is of IPv6 and what the longer term plan is.
It is 8 years since I left Microsoft and another friend left as well. He made the move in 2006 to this small group who you could fit around a few tables in the cafeteria. The idea this group had was to change how IT consumed resources. The group my friend joined is called Amazon Web Services. After 8 years he has retired.
My background is broad. While I have a business degree (BBA - Finance), and experience founding and running successful businesses, my professional experience over the past number of years has been as a technologist -- with experience that ranges from managing teams at Microsoft to writing code to being part of Amazon Web Services since the early days of Cloud Computing.
Cloud Computing is amazing. It proves that a small group of driven people with a vision can change the world. No one would have said just a few years ago that organizations are open to running mission-critical applications “in the cloud”. Fast forward to today, and that’s the conversation on the table.
Currently I am attempting to be retired.
Now that my friend is retired I know he’ll be at home more, and he still lives only 2 miles from me.
The Cloud has come a long way in 8 years, and my friend has deserved to take a break and enjoy retirement.
How many people do you know have spent 8 years working on the Cloud?
Timesdispatch posts on Microsoft’s 3rd expansion in Boydton, VA.
Microsoft Corp. will invest $346.7 million to expand its data center site in Mecklenburg County — for the third time — creating 90 jobs.
“This expansion opens up many more opportunities for our county to offer jobs to our citizens and greatly expand our economic base,” Glenn Barbour, chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement. “We look forward to working with Microsoft well into the future.”
When the new expansion is complete, Microsoft will employ 170 workers at the data center in Boydton.
“Each expansion allows us to better meet our customers’ growing cloud service needs,” Christian Belady, Microsoft’s general manager of data center services, said in a statement.
Here are the past two projects.
Microsoft’s original project in 2010 involved an investment of up to $499 million and creation of 50 jobs at the Mecklenburg data center. In 2011, the company invested an additional $150 million to expand the site, and in 2013 announced a $348 million expansion.
