Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?

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From	Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject	Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?
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On 19/05/15 21:53, Tim Watts wrote:

> I have tried and failed to find a very general VM/cloud forum/group
> covering the UK and/or the EU to bat some ideas around and I suspect
> this is not the place to get specific. Does not have to be VMWare
> centric...
>

I learnt something yesterday -

If we went cloud, the terminology seems to be "virtual datacentre" or 
"virtual infrastructure".

Had a very informed chat with one of the smaller London based providers 
and they use VMWare vCloud to allow multi-tenancy (another buzzword) on 
a large physical cluster.

It seems that each "tenant" gets what they perceive to be a personal 
VMWare virtual cluster and they can treat it as they like and manage it 
more or less as a real VMWare cluster, minus the hardware aggravations.

Firewalling is achieved at the hypervisor level using vShield Edge to 
give a customer managed border firewall.

It's still sodding expensive, but at least it defines what I want (at 
least in functionality) from a cloud provider. Therefore I can at least 
get some quotes on an equal and informed footing for that particular 
solution. And it does not require a custom build as one of the bigger 
hosting companies offered (eg "You need firewalling? OK, we can add in a 
physical box, extra dosh, consultancy fees etc"...)

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Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-19 21:53 +0100
  Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-05-19 23:05 +0000
    Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 07:55 +0100
      Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 08:14 +0100
        Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-20 09:26 +0100
          Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 10:26 +0100
        Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-05-20 13:44 +0000
          Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 15:31 +0100
    Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 13:06 +0100
  Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 08:46 +0100
  Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-21 11:11 +0100
    Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-05-21 12:27 +0200
      Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-21 14:52 +0100
        Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-21 22:51 +0100
          Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-21 23:57 +0100
            Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-22 00:07 +0100
              Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-22 08:54 +0100

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