Dreamhost... 

How they use Dell Pweredge C servers hardware/Chef/ Crowbar and Openstack

Dell finance attract to a new growing business unit...

http://i.dell.com/sites/content/shared-content/solutions/en/Documents/dreamhost-openstack-cloud-case-study.pdf

Can any cloud catch Amazon Web Services?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-20098812-240/can-any-cloud-catch-amazon-web-services-part-1/

  A deveopers cloud... 

  Self Service....

  RDS,ELB,ElasticCache,SQS,SNS hard to keep up 

  PaaS vs IaaS.. devs who like to push the boundies... locked into frameworks,,,

  Spot instances... 

  Operational experience... 

vFarbric Data Director

req esx esxi

Moving up the stack... 

Policy based self service of data bases

postgresql.. sybase and EMC's greenplum

 vFabric Postgres free for non production

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/08/vfabric-data-director-dbaas.html

DBaaS will be important – “self service” isn’t a word applied to the world of databases today for the most part.   Developers turn to strange alternatives when there isn’t a simple path for them to develop what they want…

Elastic...

vsphere for databases..

optimized for vsphere 5..

dbaas

greenplumb hadoop.. oracle... 

full external api... 

backup and cloning abilities..

create replica of databases.. schmea backup schedule... 

Cloud.com’s CloudStack Goes 100% Open Source

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/post-citrix-acquisition-cloud-coms-cloudstack-goes-100-open-source/

collectdViewer

http://bergmans.com/WebSocket/collectdViewer.html

The system combines the use of WebSockets and the new AMQP plugin for collectd 5.0.0 to achieve a data display update rate in the browser of two times per second.