Amazon MFA and VPS, Hyper-V FUD, and physical datacenter design tips

October 6, 2009 By John Gannon

Here are a few items that caught my eye this morning:

For those of you interested in learning about Hyper-V, take a look at this post from @virtualizethis which discusses some of the key features in the product and tries to dispel some of the FUD that surrounds it.

Amazon Web Services recently started offering multi-factor authentication. Between MFA and the new Virtual Private Cloud capabilities, it is clear that Amazon would like to make bigger inroads into the enterprise by allaying some of the security concerns that are inherent to cloud deployments. Also, Amazon partner Rightscale also posted some interesting statistics about cloud growth over the past year, which were derived from their internal and customer usage.

Although we at VMTurbo are living in the virtual world, we certainly appreciate the importance of the physical infrastructure as well. The folks at Datacenter Journal posted a detailed article about best practices for physical datacenter design. Lots of tips about how to think about design of power, cooling, and other environmental factors into your datacenter specification.

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