Haroon is an IT industry veteran and has more than 10 years of experience in designing, deploying and managing LAN/WAN operations, virtual infrastructure, IT administration and project management. Haroon currently serves in capacity of Director of Information Technology, Senior Network Engineer and Virtualization Architect for a firm which owns online and traditional schools and property management business.

GoGrid Opens European Operations in Amsterdam

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it has established its EMEA Headquarters, GoGrid AMS BV, and a new data center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to provide fully integrated, on-demand cloud infrastructure services around the globe. Uniquely architected for seamless, scalable, worldwide customer infrastructure deployments, GoGrid leverages a common architectural footprint that ensures [...]

A big cloud on the horizon proves to be good news in computer industry

BEIJING – Global data-storage suppliers are looking at China’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market as demand surges on the back of a rise in cloud computing. “The data quantity in medium-sized companies has seen an average increase of 59 percent annually. Demand could be huge in the next three to five years,” said Adrian [...]

Green IT and Cloud Summit 2012

Third annual conference to feature 25 top Green IT and Cloud technology companies. Join the 2012 Green IT and Cloud Summit in Tysons Corner, Virginia on April 18, 2012. The third annual Green IT and Cloud Summit will feature top technology firms, dozens of high profile speakers and exclusive panels geared toward a national audience [...]

VMware: Unable to migrate VM, missing snapshot file and out of space Error

The error in the headline is right out of snapshot hell. If you have virtual machines (VMs) with large memory requirements, you probably know that you need extra space on the datastore to store the Memory Swap file (.vswp). When datastore housing the VM runs out of diskspace, you will not be able to create [...]

Invalid configuration for device 4 Error When Cloning or vMotion a Virtual Machine

When performing vMotion on a Virtual Machine (VM) or a template on vDS (virtual distributed switch) configuration, you may come across this error: Invalid configuration for Device ’4′ I experienced this error in my lab over the weekend and removing the VM from the vDS portgroup fixed the issue. According to VMware, the cause of [...]

WSO2 Joins Cloud Security Alliance

WSO2 today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the non-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing and education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing. As a member of the Cloud Security [...]

Thanks to the Patriot Act, Cloud Data in EU not Safe

Microsoft has acknowledged the fact that its EU based cloud data is accessible to the Patriot Act.  If ordered, all US based companies are required to provide access to US authorities under the patriot act. Read on… Microsoft’s UK head admitted today that no cloud data is safe from the Patriot Act — and Microsoft [...]

Nexenta Lands in China’s Cloud Valley

Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that the company had signed an agreement to base its Greater China presence in Beijing’s Cloud Valley. Nexenta will use its presence in Cloud Valley to support its growing ranks of customers and partners. Cloud Valley is a 7,000-square-meter technology campus and the creation of [...]