Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

I'll tell you something. When the user community starts saying it. You better believe it. It got slashdotted ! We already cooked up the Vyatta Virtual Appliance. And it is definitely will be the one I will be using during my trip to Uganda in Nov. There I will be: Organizing workshops Liaising with vendors (VMware, Sun, others) Setting up training labs Advocating the use of Virtualization and setting up a complete enterprise on it! And Vyatta will be our router there! I will talk more about our trip to Africa. We have been pretty busy with the delegation here. (They are still here) and I've given some trainings/introduction to: VMware's Virtual Infrastructure (Both server side and client side- ACE that is) Open Source technologies (Routers, IPS/IDS, firewalls, ldap, LMS, CRM, CMS..list is endless) WiMAX Amazing thing was that the folks were truly excited and happy. I'm pretty excited myself as it is really an amazing opportunity to show how we can deliver a low cost yet...

I will be presenting some "Next-Gen" infrastructure to some of the delegates from Uganda (where we are doing a project for 5 Universities) in next two weeks. I will be talking about some real kick ass infrastructure. Money is a definite issue so we will be proposing a prototype "Virtualized Infrastructure" for the pool of 5 Universities. The developing nations are picking up the threads by adopting the roadmap for a wireless infrastructure. Look at the nations where WiMAX is getting adopted. So what are these developing nations up to? GigaOm was on a road trip and saw an emerging " Wireless Peru " going full blast with it. Intel is going full blast with its WiMAX trial in India And there are a dozen alleged trials in the offing Uganda already has one setup in Kampala (We'll be travelling there in November to discuss and explore the possibilities of setting up robust but cheap, sustainable yet high-performance Infrastructure.) They will be expanding t...