IT 2.0
Using Q CLI to validate the implementation of Kiros specs
Amazon Q Developer in the IDE cheat sheet
AWS CloudFormation and Generative AI
DIY personalization for Amazon Q Developer
Embracing Amazon Q Developer failures
A framework to adopt generative AI assistants for builders
Using the Amazon Q feature development capability to write documentation
An example of the importance of prompt engineering
English as a programming language is (almost) here
Building a Generative AI application using AWS Step Functions
Generative AI and the march towards the democratization of IT
The "dark zone" between the magic GenAI experience and the Large Language Model
Taking a turn in my career
Implementing the AWS Elastic Beanstalk worker environment pattern with Amazon ECS
Configuring a timeout for Amazon ECS tasks
Using AWS Application Composer to build a serviceful application (virtual part 2)
Automating stable FQDNs for public Amazon ECS tasks (virtual part 1)
Using AWS Step Functions to mitigate code liability
Updating the Yelb Ruby Lambda functions and the S3 static website template
Submitting an AWS Batch job from AWS API Gateway
Running the stock NGINX container image with AWS Lambda
My first CDK experience under the hood
Securing credentials using AWS Secrets Manager with AWS Fargate
Deployment pipeline of a containerized application using AWS services
Moving to a new role at AWS
Compute abstractions on AWS
My first 6 months at AWS
AWS Identity and Access Management: Introduction to Resources Access Control
So long VMware, Hello AWS
“VMware Cloud on AWS” Vs. “Azure Stack”
A data center provisioning horror story
Yelb, yet another sample app
Project Harbor makes an entry into Rancher!
Hashidays 2017 – London: a personal report
Kubecon 2017 – Berlin: a personal report
Docker Containerd Explained in Plain Words
Automating vSphere Integrated Containers Deployments
VMware Harbor as a Rancher catalog entry
Dockercon 2016 – Seattle: a personal report
Serverlessconf 2016 – New York City: a personal report
AWS Lambda: a few years of advancement and we are back to stored procedures
The incestuous relations among containers orchestration tools
Sample script to create a VDC (and deploy a Photon Docker Host) in vCloud Air
A generic (and highly academic) discussion around multi-tenancy
How to use docker-machine in conjunction with the vSphere driver
The (Upside Down) Economics of Public Clouds
Why Docker != Containers and Docker OSS != Docker Inc.
How is Your “Shopping Experience” Related to Docker?
DevOps (for Dummies)
Taking a New Challenge: Cloud Native Apps (Whatever That Means)
Fog.io and vCloud Air
Yet Another CLI (not) – vcautils
(IaaS) Cloud Outages: Get Over It
What do Cloud Native Applications Have to do with Cloud?
Cloud Native Applications (for Dummies)
The Dark Age in Front of Us: a Reality Check of mid 2014
Docker on vCHS (with 2 API Calls)
Guest OS Customization in vCHS
Is AWS Slowing Down Due to Lack of Demand Rather Than Lack of Ideas?
vCHS Monitoring and Capacity Management 101 – the Practice
vCHS Monitoring and Capacity Management 101 – the Theory
“Massimo, look, this is my VDI”
vCHS Meets vCO (and Boris Becomes a Hero!)
Unicorns, Pendulums and Private Clouds
Virtualization Vs Abstraction (in Cloud Networking)
The Load Balancing Service in vCHS
vCHS APIs 102
vCHS APIs 101
T-Shirt Size Instances and Storage Management in AWS and vCHS
The Cloud Spectrum and the Amazon Dilemma
My Web 2.0: a (6 Years Old) Survival Guide to Social Media
My vCHS sessions at VMworld 2013
vCHS: Stop Thinking About Building a Cloud, Start Thinking About How to Consume It
Liquid Data Center
A Tail of Wrong Assumptions That Lead to Wrong Conclusions
The Cost of Building Clouds
vCloud Director Meets vShield App
Backup and Restore of vCloud Director Consumer Workloads
AWS: a Space Shuttle to Go Shopping?
vCloud, OpenStack, Pets and Cattle
VMware, Openstack, Nicira and the T Theory
vCloud Director 5.1(.1) Changes in Resource Entitlements (Updated)
Cloud and the Three IT Geographies (Silicon Valley, US and Rest of the World)
VMware Distributed Storage – This is Where the (Cloud) World Collapses
The Evolution of x86 Server Architectures
VMworld 2012, Software Defined Datacenter and Random Rants and Suggestions
Azure Virtual Machines: what sort of cloud beast is it? (UPDATED)
Typical VXLAN Use Case
VMware wants to be the VMware of Networking
vCloud Director 1.5 Multisite Cloud Considerations
The Cost of Doing Public Cloud with VMware
The Frankencloud
The Cloud Magic Rectangle ™
Will we need a C for Nicira? God forbid!
The ABC of Lock-In
Virtualization Costs, Virtualization Advantages and the Case for Multi-Hypervisors
vCD Custom Portals and Backend Integrations in a Service Provider Environment
Amazon, Netflix, Standard Cloud APIs and the Inevitable Lock-in
vCloud Director 1.0.1: Networking Samples
The Cloud and the Sunset of the GHz-based CPU Metric
The Italian Elections and the Case for Cloudburst
TCP-clouds, UDP-clouds, “design for fail” and AWS
The 93.000 Firewall Rules Problem and Why Cloud is Not Just Orchestration
vShield products packaging explained (with a focus on vCloud Director)
vCloud, the Morphing Channel Behavior and Neural Circuits
My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 4: Managing Workloads with vCloud Connector
VMware vCloud Connector: on the way to the Hybrid Clouds
My first year @ VMware
My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 3: Moving vSphere Workloads into the Cloud
Economics of Cloud Computing – A Different Angle
My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 2: Basic Cloud Consumption
My Cloud Consumer Experience – Episode 1: The On-Boarding
Random Thoughts and Blasphemies around IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and the Cloud Contract
Virtualization Sandbox Vs Cloud Sandbox (from an end-user perspective)
Thoughts Around Service Provider’s Public Cloud Platforms
vCloud Director and Active Directory Backed Authentication
vCloud Director: Catalog Experiments
vCloud Director Networking for Dummies
vSphere, vCloud and the Meaning of being “Open”
Thoughts on VMworld 7.0 and Virtualization 2.0
Open standards, open source, OpenStack and the TCPIP of Cloud APIs
Cloud and the New IT Pillars
Are Hypervisors Cloud Commodities?
VMware, Virtualization… and More
Public Cloud Adoption Curve – is History Repeating?
Don’t Fear the Cloud (the Cloud is Good)
I am back (on the blogsphere)!
From Scale Up vs Scale Out… to Scale Down
XenServer: Why? (Updated)
Ad Hoc Designed Infrastructures: do they still make sense?
The (Potential) Value of Blogging for Your Career
VMware, SpringSource and What’s Not Appropriate to Say
Disaster Recovery Inside-Out for Dummies (with LSI)
Xeon 5500 (aka Nehalem) Marks the Death of Itanium (and More)
Cisco UCS: there is something I am still missing
Hyper-V Server R2: a few additional thoughts
And the winner is… AppSpeed
Hyper-V Server R2 on BladeCenter S Tutorial
VMworld 2009 Europe is coming: do you want to Scale Up or Scale Out?
Enterprise Virtualization In-a-Box
Will Microsoft sunset VMware? – 18 months later –
Distributed IT is (definitely) broken
Plagiarism: did Paul Maritz steal my pitch for the VMworld 2008 Keynote?
ESX 3.5i for free and the impact on Hyper-V and the SMB (my thoughts on Mike’s post)
Storage High Availability and DR for the masses
VMware HA Vs Microsoft Cluster Server: we are at the inflection point
Why Desktop Virtualization is not as easy as Server Virtualization
Site Recovery Manager: what is it (going to be) good for?
Virtualization hardware sizing (quick and dirty approach)
Infiniband Vs 10Gbit Ethernet… with an eye on virtualization
Intel, AMD, VMware and…Aircrafts
Viridian (version 0) is here!
What (really) VMware ESX 3i is (to me)
AMD to add new (interesting) virtualization feature support
My session at VMworld 2007
(One of) the next big things… “from Servers to Services”
A brief architecture overview of VMware ESX, XEN and MS Viridian
No more corporate PC’s… wouldn’t it be nice?
Will Microsoft sunset VMware?
Hardware Virtualization Vs OS Virtualization Vs Application Virtualization
Exposing Physical Layouts to Virtual Machines
VMware HA and DR: case study presentation available
Client Consolidation solutions