Rational Survivability

Here’s a great resource for those of you trying to get your arms around VMware’s vCloud Architecture:

VMware vCloud Architecture ToolKit (vCAT) 2.0

This is a collection of really useful materials, clearly painting a picture of cloud rosiness, but valuable to understand how to approach the various deployment models and options for VMware’s cloud stack:

• Document Map  – Document descriptions, function, and table of contents.
• vCAT Introduction  – Considerations when first developing your Cloud strategy.
• Private VMware vCloud Service Definition  – Business and functional requirements for either Private cloud architectures—complete with sample use cases.
• Public VMware vCloud Service Definition  – Business and functional requirements for Public cloud architectures—complete with sample use cases.
• Architecting a VMware vCloud  – Design considerations for architecting a VMware vCloud.
• Operating a VMware vCloud  – Operational considerations for running a VMware vCloud.
• Consuming a VMware vCloud  – Organization and user considerations for building and running vApps within a VMware vCloud VMware
• vCloud Implementation Examples:
  • Private VMware vCloud
  • Public VMware vCloud
• Hybrid VMware vCloud Use Case

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• VMware’s vShield – Why It’s Such A Pain In the Security Ecosystem’s *aaS… (rationalsurvivability.com)
• VMware orders vCloud army across five continents (go.theregister.com)
• VMware’s Vision: Connected Global Clouds (datacenterknowledge.com)
• VMware Places a Bet on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (diversity.net.nz)