Archive for the ‘CohesiveFT’ Category
It’s been over a month now since the price drop announcements for Google Compute Engine (GCE) and the follow on price drops for AWS and Azure. This stuff has been well covered by Jack Clark at The Register, former Netflix Chief Architect Adrian Cockcroft, and my CohesiveFT colleague Ryan Koop. For an in depth strategic background I’d recommend […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, CAPEX, cloud, fungability, GCE, google, iaas, Jack Clark, pricing, RAM, Simon Wardley
Node-RED on Docker
Docker is going into the next release of CohesiveFT’s VNS3 cloud networking appliance as a substrate for application network services such as proxy, reverse proxy, load balancing, content caching and intrusion detection. I’ve been spending some time getting familiar with how Docker does things. Since I’ve also been spending some time on Node-RED recently I […]
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Tags: Docker, Docker.io, Dockerfile, image, index, node, Node-RED, node.js, repository
CohesiveFT video overview
For those of you wondering what I do in my day job:
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Tags: cloud, networking, security
Your own VPN in the cloud
Last week I saw that major credit card companies are blocking payments to VPN services: This is bad news if you want to protect your stuff online (or pretend that you’re in another country). One way to deal with this is to run your own VPN service in the cloud. This is of course of […]
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Tags: Access Server, android, cloud, iOS, iPad, iphone, Linux, MAC, OpenVPN, VNS3, vpn, VPS, Windows
This post first appeared on the CohesiveFT blog. One of the announcments that seemed to get lost in the noise at this week’s IO conference was that Google Compute Engine (GCE) is now available for everyone. I took it for a quick test drive yesterday, and here are some of my thoughts about what I found. Web interface […]
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Tags: access control, cloud, GCE, gcutil, google, iaas, identity, image management, network, performance, price, SSH, storage, UI, web
An adventure with Chef
I hear a lot of people talking about automated deployment with Chef (and its competitor Puppet, which I haven’t had the chance to try yet), so I thought I’d spend some time seeing how it would fit in with our image management platform Server3. Don’t stray from the PATH To get familiar with Chef, I dove straight into the […]
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Tags: aws, Chef, development, DevOps, image automation, image management, Inception, Puppet, Server3
SDN – flow control and APIs
This is a cross post from the CohesiveFT corp blog. A friend and former colleague recently asked me, “on the SDN front – anything you’d recommend reading in terms of positioning, and compare/contrast of quantum vs. openflow vs. onePK vs…….?”. This was my reply: OK… based on my limited understanding (I don’t consider myself anything […]
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Tags: API, iOS, network, onePK, OpenFlow, OpenStack, protocol, Quantum, SDN
My New Job
I’ve started a new job as CTO for CohesiveFT. It’s a great company with a great team and some great products and services. As I’ve known many of the people since before the company was founded this post could be subtitled ‘a brief history of CohesiveFT’. The people and pre-history Alexis Richardson was the instigator. […]
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Tags: aws, deployment, factory, IBM. cloud, image, industrial design, management, multicast, network, open source, OpenStack, SDN, security, topology, virtual appliance, virtual machine, vpn
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