With my Untangle router up and running, one of the things I’ve been working on lately at home is different OpenVPN options and configurations. As I’m not running VMware View at home (shocked I’m sure!) I wanted a way to do RDP or VNC connections from an iphone or ipad back into my house. I [...]
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A little home tinkering
I’ve been in the process of updating most of my home infrastructure. It’s funny, one of the main reasons I started XenKibbutz.com was to move production services out of my house and into a proper datacenter. Now, with the proliferation of cloud services, virtualization, and my awesome phone providers, I really don’t have any hosted [...]
Three successful years of XenKibbutz.com
It’s been almost three years since XenKibbutz.com opened it’s doors. I’ve learned a ton about self service provisioning, Xen, and hosted services. While I’m sad to announce that we’ll be closing up shop later this year, there is a light at the other end. I’m going to be ramping up a new hosted virtualization platform [...]
Getting Involved. CIALUG2004 – vEXPERT 2010
First I’ve got to thank Scott Lowe for his blog post “Blogging for the right reasons” for the motivation to get this one wrapped up. It’s been sitting in my drafts for a while now, long enough that vEXPERT2010 was more than one other thing before. This is just my PoV, let me know what [...]
UEC “Cloud in a Box” from Canonical
With all of the development going on in the Ubuntu ecosystem today, one of the more interesting developments in my opinion is the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. UEC is a great way for existing (or new) Ubuntu/Canonical users/customers to build out a supported virtual machine hosting platform that utilizes the same tools as Amazon’s EC2 to [...]