How VMware differs from Amazon Web Services in its approach to import virtual machines (feedburner)

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud, channel dedicated to covering the cloud and virtualization computing. The canal is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study on how the city of Santiago, the Spain turned to virtualization.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) import VMware image is somewhat like the Hotel California. You can check but you can never leave.

This is the point of view of VMware on AWS import virtual machines VMware. Without any real export functions, AWS is locking in customers who want to extend its infrastructure virtualized environment public cloud.

Matthew Lodge is Director, principal of VMware cloud services. We took with him this week to talk about VMware approach and how it differs from AWS.

Referred to in Tom Bittman, an analyst at Gartner Research, who says Lodge as safety and performance are two of the top concerns on the outskirts of the cloud infrastructures.

In short, is a distinct manner that VMware differs from AWS.

Hybrid is that VMware sees his next thrust. Making the move to import virtual machines VMware AWS is grateful a significant market opportunity. It also demonstrates VMware dominant position on the market.

But George Reese for a saw some problems with the AWS methods both VMware. Reese is the founder of EnStratus, a service that helps businesses to expand its data centers in the cloud clouds management. He says that AWS import method is too low. He told us via Twitter would be like a running application on its own separate mother. This motherboard will then be carried from one server to another.

The best solution is to be portable to the application layer and run your application on any virtual machine on your target operating system.

Lodge says VMware offers its customers security and control movement of the cloud.

In a blog in August, he wrote:

"Another area important that heard talk us time and was once again security." Consequently, security is a key element of vCloud Datacenter services. There are three parts to this: the security of cloud infrastructure itself, applications running in the cloud and authentication for users of clouds within your organization and access rights.

You told us that it was not enough that the infrastructure and applications are protected; security teams and Auditors should be able to verify and document too. To provide this service for Datacenter vCloud infrastructure a meet a strict set of physical and logical security controls with all newspapers available for inspection by the third-party auditors. We have developed a set of controls derived from the ISO 27001 and consistent with the SAS70 type II to this end, including the implementation of our service provider partners.

We also took advantage of the new vShield Edge and vCloud Director "monitor" complete virtual security, which provides a firewall stateful (again, newspapers are available for the audit), layer 2 VLANs and complete isolation of network layer 2. As a result, security and the implementation strategy automatically follow the application, regardless of the where he physically lands. (It will be more to this topic in another ticket blog.)You also receive complete role-based access control, authenticated against your own directory business so that you have the type access and authorization security that you're used to. »

AWS Lodge contends, a virtual firewall that does not provide a high level of security. You see it if there is an attack.

"They do not logs you off the firewall", said the Lodge. "If they are attacked they cannot see the logs to see if they actually get attacked." "They cannot see what is happening."

AWS maintains its network is secure and there is much to show for that to be true. But the situation changes when you start moving of virtual machines.

We'll get more into that in a future post on virtual networks and emerging awareness that require networks. Lodge and a host of others have a lot of insights into the topic that is worth exploring.

The bottom line: VMware offers a much more sophisticated than AWS service but flexibility and price AWS service make for a compelling alternative to VMware approach.

There are many other players in this space too. EnStratus is a cloud of world-class management service. Rackspace brings his own brand, with the acquisition of Cloudkick.

The new year? Our bet is that the cloud will become much more transparent. The difference is that by the end of 2011, everything is much more familiar to businesses and perhaps much easier to implement, too.

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Publish an eBook on Amazon? Your questions answered. (Blogging tips)

December 7, I crossed off the coast of a goal on my list of career - to publish a book on Amazon. After I have instructions, it is fairly easy by the way in which. I can now download in as little as 15-30 minutes (fast if not for my type of personality that forces me to try to get everything is perfect).

Anyway...

After that I got my book on Amazon, there are a few things that I wished I had known that would have made the experience much better. Here, I want to give you the heads so that you can relax and enjoy the realization.

Your eBook Amazon publication notice

The guidelines had been told that my book would be published within 24-48 hours. I kept waiting to receive a notification from Amazon in my Inbox that told me that he was alive. So I do perspire waiting, I wanted to know that I was indeed an author published from Amazon.

This WAS a milestone important career.

Well, my sister is my book on the site and sent me the link. She was a published the same day I - Yes, we were racing and won by just a few hours L).

Know your self-Published on Amazon eBook

You will need to open your account via the DTP Amazon * publication interface (interface Edition ebook Amazon) and click on "reporting". This is where you can follow what was going on with your ebook, for example, at what stage it is at in the process of publication to see if you have sales, the list of your titles, sales UK, reports etc.

Just know that you will not receive an email from Amazon to your email account. You must log in to your Amazon account.

FYI, DTP is an acronym for digital text platform.

Your description of the Amazon eBook product

Once my ebook was going live, the description of the product was not there. I was like "What is up with that? I started to download still think that, perhaps, that (I) would help to know I provided, so it wasn't the problem.

But I have a background editing and something I do however intuitively. True enough, I was hunting autour Forum Edition of the book on Amazon and found a response which says that the description of the product is usually published one or two days after the book itself alive.

AND he went increasingly say that this post that if you keep re-uploading, there will be delays it published much more time.

Therefore, if you see your published book and there is no description for product it (and you know that you have provided one), not sweat it. He will accompany in a few days. Simply relax and enjoy the fact that you are now in the world, published author!

How to publish an eBook on Amazon - the quick and easy way

Here are the instructions easy to follow on how to publish a book on Amazon.

And as I clicked in my ebook Amazon Edition account for information on this item, my second book is almost on-line on the site. Next year, my plan is to publish at least 50 titles on the site - but it's a topic for another post.