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May 28, 2019 | Author Chris Grossmeier

Infinite Combinations

We welcome the VMware vCenter Server on IBM Cloud Simulator, bringing Superhero insights to mere mortals.

In the movie Avengers: Infinity Wars, Doctor Strange takes on the daunting superhuman task of viewing all the possible outcomes of the Avengers chances at beating their rival Thanos. With millions of possibilities, Doctor Strange saw only one positive outcome where they succeeded. If only we could possess this skill in IT we could model the ideal hardware configuration with the ideal performance, size, and costs. This power of vision to see the ideal outcome should not be the skills of just superheroes.

Dec 31, 2018 | Author Richard Sexton

Welcome to 2019!

To our valued customers and partners – thank you for a fantastic 2018! It has been an amazing year and following the release of our partner edition in 2016 it has been our privilege to serve over 200+ global partners and 5,000 platform users. In 2018, we released the CloudPhysics IT Collaboration Platform with the… Read more »

Oct 19, 2018 | Author CloudPhysics

How Cloud Providers Win with VMware’s VMC on *

Working with cloud providers is the best and the worst possible decision VMware could have made. For VMware, this is a win in that they see cloud adoption, but for the cloud providers, this is the Trojan horse that will move customers from VMware to cloud-based SaaS solutions and away from virtual machines. First and… Read more »

Oct 17, 2018 | Author CloudPhysics

Running the numbers on vSphere 6.7 Readiness – Upgrade, Reduce, Migrate and Save (even on VMware)

Imagine your largest customer comes to you and says, “Thanks for your years of hard work and great products and services, you did so well, we don’t need you anymore, at least not as much as we used to need you.” That may be the phrase VMware is about to start hearing far more often,… Read more »

Oct 11, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

Purpose, Process, and Partners — Making Your Cloud Migration a Success

CloudPhysics has partnered with Google to help our customers make the migration to the cloud as quick and easy as possible. The combined per-instance cost model and custom instances provided by Google offer nearly unlimited combinations of deployment models for moving workloads to the cloud. But the end goal still needs consideration and planning. This… Read more »

Sep 8, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

VMware Cloud on AWS and the Long Road to Hybrid Cloud

This past week, VMware announced the general availability of VMware Cloud on AWS during VMWorld. The interest was high, and the sessions on the topic were usually delivered to packed rooms. The promise of a VMware vSphere-based cloud that operates on Amazon Web Services has the potential to be a game-changer. But as the world… Read more »

Aug 30, 2017 | Author kevin

Best Cloud Value Today—by 40%! VMware Cloud on AWS with CloudPhysics

“Cloud is cheaper than on-prem!” You’ve heard that marketing blast from cloud providers constantly this past year. But now the game has changed, with the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS announced this week at VMworld. VMware’s strategic move for partnership with Amazon enables you to cut your consumption costs on AWS by 40% through… Read more »

Aug 25, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

Thy Customer Know… Bold Be

Sign Up Today Every one of your customers is undergoing a digital transformation to get as close as possible to their customers, and to know them through data—data that enables the delivery of products and services that perfectly meet and anticipate needs. As a channel partner, you must do exactly the same thing. CloudPhysics takes… Read more »

Aug 24, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

A CXO’s Dilemma: What’s the true cost of migrating to the cloud?

Dilemma: You may know the price of specific cloud instances, services, or solutions from certain providers, but do you really know the actual cost—and how long will that take to calculate? The CIO’s job has never been more dynamic—or more demanding. Business changes as fast as the technology driving it; sometimes faster than we can… Read more »

Aug 18, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

Getting Ready for VMWorld 2017: New Rules for a New Game

Register Today for the Upcoming VMworld Webinar – Thursday, August 24th @ 10am PST VMWorld is the pinnacle event for many in the virtualization community to showcase new technologies, release new products, and weigh in on the direction of the industry. This year will be no exception. With VMware expecting to shed more light on their VMware Cloud… Read more »

Aug 11, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

Does This VM Make My Cloud Look Fat?

Evaluating configured VM sizes in the data center before moving to a public cloud is like trying on new clothes with your spouse. You have some hard questions to answer about size and what you really need. As a married male, the hardest question I often answer is a question asked by my wife on… Read more »

Jul 28, 2017 | Author Chris Grossmeier

Sockets, Cores, and Threads – When Performance Modeling, 1 + 1 is not Always 2

Capacity planning and modeling requires a firm understanding of the resources you are using. Planning capacity solely on workload-defined resources will often get you in trouble and lead to contention or waste. A good understanding of the processor and your workloads can ensure you maximize your resources. When helping customers onboard to the new… Read more »

Jul 14, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

In a Terrarium, Strategic Partners are like our own Personal Yoda

In today’s IT Department, Yoda’s teaching still holds true. By viewing a strategic partner as our own personal Yoda, we can attest that the partner is critical to the success of a new IT strategy. This week, in a complete tongue-in-cheek blog, we have much to learn from a toy Yoda in a terrarium. “Many… Read more »

May 16, 2017 | Author Chris Grossmeier

Hidden Threats of Powered Off VMs

The “WannaCry” ransomware worm made news over last weekend and this week as well, sending IT professionals rushing to apply patches that they should have applied months ago. The lax habit of not keeping patches up-to-date came back to bite many of those who left a hole in data center defenses. Looking into the data… Read more »

Apr 11, 2017 | Author Chris Grossmeier

Maybe Goldilocks was onto something

Managing a virtual data center and hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) is a lot like the old children’s tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears: too hot, too cold, too firm, too soft, etc. At some point, you find one that is just right. However, with virtualization, we seem to be on the path of… Read more »

Apr 7, 2017 | Author Chris Grossmeier

The pitfalls of treating vSphere Licensing as an ‘All You Can Eat Buffet.’

This is a story on vSphere License Management within vCenter and the chaos that admins endure on a daily basis. A number of years ago, I worked as a Pre-Sales Sr. Systems Engineer at VMware. We often engaged our strategic customers to review their license usage prior to their renewing an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA)…. Read more »

Apr 6, 2017 | Author Chris Grossmeier

Costing Elastic Scalability with Hybrid Clouds

VMware has now announced its partnership with AWS to host vCloud workloads on Amazon hardware. That means we are starting to see the dream of a hyper-converged hybrid cloud become reality. This convergence brings the need for a new TCO and ROI calculation that dramatically differs from our previous models—so is consolidation ratio back in… Read more »

Mar 10, 2017 | Author CloudPhysics

More Cloud, Less Cost—in the Palm of Your Hand

Google Cloud Platform, while the current underdog in the cloud space, has been making ripples in the cloud hosting industry for a while now by offering instances and pricing options that are difficult to ignore. But as with most cloud platform analysis, the effort to match workloads to their appropriate instances amid the multitude of… Read more »

Feb 9, 2017 | Author Chris Grossmeier

Rightsizing Can Lower Your Costs Like Magic—But You Need to Get it Right

Rightsizing workloads correctly in the data center can be a dark art. Most tools available today look at vCPU utilization and vRAM usage over the course of a day, week, month, or longer, as well as measure the peak usage of the workload. However, peak workload usage can be misleading. Looking at a history of… Read more »

Dec 15, 2016 | Author CloudPhysics

What’s Lurking in the Data Lake? The ‘Global IT Data Lake Report; Q4 2016’ Dives Deep Into Some Shocking Truths About Compute and Storage Resources

Given all the modern concern about sparing resources, living lightly on the planet and so forth, it comes as a rude awakening to learn that data centers are actually wasting compute and storage resources as if they flowed from some infinite source. The CloudPhysics Global IT Data Lake Report; Q4 2016 takes an unflinching look… Read more »

Burstable Instances: An Interesting Take on Pay-Per-Use

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