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This week we have a special guest – Martin Casado.

Martin is co-founder and CTO of Nicira networks, a venture funded company in the network virtualization space. He is involved in the Open vSwitch project, a soft switch for virtual environments, and the design and promotion of OpenFlow, an effort to enable open, programmatic control of network hardware.

He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2007 and a masters in 2005. He maintains a position at Stanford as consulting professor.

His prior experience includes positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and IBM’s TJ Watson research center, both in network research."

Martin will discuss the intersection of the networking and IaaS clouds. More specifically, technology trends for virtualizing networking so that you maintain the guarantees of hardware with the properties of virtualization (treat your network hardware as a resource pool, unlimited mobility, HA, etc.).

There are currently many suggested approaches for this, add an appliance (NetScaler/Vyatta), tag traffic and send it to the ToR (VEPA, VNTag), process in the NIC (SR-IOV which is being pushed by the IHVs), pull networking into the vSwitch etc. He will go through these technologies and discuss their various tradeoffs. 

“It is interesting to note that most of the them are artifacts of business objectives rather than sound engineering”, according to Martin.

His position is that you can get everything promised by these techniques, and more, using standard virtualization stacks and commodity hardware, and going the way of the mainframe (e.g. UCS) is absolutely the the wrong approach.

This promises to be a very interesting conversation!

The broadcast is via TALKSHOE.com.

You can participate via web accessing http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/75046.

Title: EPISODE6 – Network Virtualisation
Start Time (EDT): Wed 10/3/10 09:00 PM EST (SYDNEY TIME)
Duration (minutes): 60 Call ID: 75046

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Yesterday Sydney (AU) hosted it’s 2nd CloudCamp and about 40 people showed up at the Sydney Technology Park. IBM, Microsoft, Gen-i and Expanz provided the lightning talks of the night and ZenDesk the drinks. The lightning talks covered security, connectivity, performance and data sovereignty.

CloudCamp is quickly becoming the 2nd best IT conference in Australia, only left behind by VMware vForum. That is because i get to see and meet people that matters to me and my professional networking.

Some interesting topics have been unpanelled: Data Portability, Cloud opportunities in AU, Private vs. Public, Legal & Governance, Databases on the Cloud, Long term Vision for the Cloud etc…

Some of my conclusions – and that did not change since last CloudCamp.

There are still a lot of resistance by large enterprise to move to the cloud. This resistance is either backed by legal & security reasons or technological constraints. Someone said – Cloud is just outsourcing spruced up with some lipstick – I have to agree with that,at least looking objectively at what is being offered today.

In my view the technology is just not there yet to allow organisations to Cloudify their applications. On the other side, organisations are always ROI oriented and soon it will start to make sense to move to the cloud. The young folks would say that this is juts matter of Old school Enterprise vs. New stuff, as I have seen tweeted. However I still see the same issues I used to see 10 years ago when we first started to discuss outsourcing.

When the discussion is the regional market things start to get tricky. Unless there is a very good reason to keep you data in-country, such as legal or privacy, I don’t see how Cloud providers will be able to compete on price with large US providers such as Amazon and Google with large economies of scale.

BTW – What is the Generation Gap? I missed that one.

Congratulations for another successful CloudCamp.

Some more photos at: http://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/338520/cloudcamp_sydney_pictures/?image=9#

This week we have a special guest – Steve Chamber from Cisco and owner of viewyonder.com -  to present, talk and discuss the Cisco UCS platform and how it can leverage your virtualisation infrastructure and processes.

The broadcast is via TALKSHOE.com.

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Title: EPISODE5 – Cisco UCS
Start Time (EDT): Wed 3/3/10 09:00 PM EST (SYDNEY TIME)
Duration (minutes): 60 Call ID: 75046

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UPDATE: As mentioned during the podcast find below the links

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Yes, it is time for another APAC Virtualisation Roundtable.

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The main topic of the night is “VDI Profile Management” with special guest Jacob Maurer from AppSense.

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Title: EPISODE4 – VDI Profile Management
Start Time (EDT): Wed 24/02/10 09:00 PM EST (SYDNEY TIME)
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Yes, it is time for another APAC Virtualisation Roundtable. I can’t believe that just few weeks ago this podcast was only an idea. Thank you all for making the effort to join and participate.

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The main topic of the night is “VDI & VMware View 4” with special guest Jeff O’Connor from VMware.

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Title: EPISODE3 – VDI & VMware View 4
Start Time (EDT): Wed 17/02/10 09:00 PM EST (SYDNEY TIME)
Duration (minutes): 60 Call ID: 75046

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