Archive for September, 2009

A bit late but better than never: the pictures of the CloudCamp in Edinburgh of September the 23rd. What I like of Edinburgh is the no-nonsense of the people there and the CloudCamp follows! I have seen interesting things, more on one of next posts. The big news is: wife came to see the CloudCamp!! I claim to...
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VMware VCB works by creating snapshots of VMs in quiescing state. If, while attempting to backup a VM, the following error shows up: ..  'vcbMounter' 3076465472 error] Error: Backup snapshot already exists. ..  'vcbMounter' 3076465472 error] An error occurred, cleaning up... There are probably some hanging snapshots of the VM that need to go. It happens often while using...
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Hooking the lizard brain up to the cerebral cortex This is the title Dave Winer (the talkative inventor of RSS) has given to one of his most recent posts, where, thanks to the imaginative idea of one of his friends who wants to be kept anonymous, he manages to de-link DNS from address resolution. No, it...
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Cannot Power xxxx. host on: Invalid virtual machine configuration. This error is a nice “catch all” and leads to configuration files corruption, improper snapshotting of VMs and other horror stories. My case is just one of “administration sloppiness”.. Indeed it’s worth to be mentioned to avoid some body’s else scratch their heads and think being overconfident. I...
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As noted earlier: transferring huge data files with TCP/IP between Clouds is a pain… Asperasoft is well known for their FASP product: a Layer 7 protocol for fast and reliable file transfer that found its habitat in the video industry. Borrowing from their experience, the guys at Aspera released an AWS appliance that implements a full...
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CloudCamp Italia (already known as CloudCamp Milan) took finally place. We had to move the planned location: too many people attending in respect of our initial expectations. At the end all 200 subscribtions were sold and we had an attendance of 143 people: not bad. We found a location in the Velodromo’s building of the...
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Here it is… We made it . I will take a 24hrs sabbatical now and organize my thoughts. My wife is helping me packing and preparing gadgets. Thank you wifey, you always stand by me. And… I got the schedule! Read it, prepare your questions, flames and sharpen your favourite blades. We will welcome a very, very,...
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I will run a live video stream during the CloudCamp, you can find it here: http://www.kaukana.be/cloudcamp/live I use Wowza media server on amazon EC2 which is a very performing alternative to Adobe at a fraction of the price. This is a perfect example on how the Computing on Demand model pays off: I just activate my Wowza...
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It takes some time.. …To put together a list of interesting interventions for the Lightning Talks of the CloudCamp. The effort Francesco Sacco of EntER and I have done, is  something I could define “very good”. We tried to cover multiple aspects of Cloud Computing, bring together different perspectives and induce the public to debate. Here are...
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I have seen this at CloudStorm in Bruxelles. B-Virtual is a Belgian company living symbiotically with cloud solution provider  A-Server and developing an IDA-based (Information Dispersal Algorithm) file system. A traditional disk subsystem obtains resiliency against data-loss by duplicating information (RAID 1 for example) or by adding check-sum stripes (for example: RAID 5). In typical...
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