That's two presents I received this week. They must have been stuffed way back under the branches of the XMAS tree unnoticed.
First, the Elastic Server team pushed out KVM support for our automated factory. This is key to helping private clouds using Red Hat and Fedora infrastructure in the upcoming year, as well as a key milestone to turbo charged Intel support (VT-d) as the new Linux kernel makes its way into the main distros.
And second, the AWS team getting the management console in our hands. Now - I do like my FireFox plugin and will probably use it for some things until I retrain my fingers. And when I am in Elastic Server I use our EC2 manager, but it has a much narrower scope.
What I really like about the new console is I am unbound from Firefox. I am a MacBook-based life form at most times and I do like Safari as well. So more browser options is a big plus. (Have I mentioned I don't like the command line?) And - as people in the office have shown me today - it looks and works pretty darn good on the iPhone as well.
Take the new UI for a spin or for a more in depth review, and also check out what Alan Williamson has to say.
So hats off and happy New Year to the AWS team for giving Elastic Server users and CohesiveFT customers more options in how they choose to manage their infrastructure in the Clouds!
