I’ve spent the weekend beta-testing Interoute’s exciting new Virtual Data Centre proposition and I feel compelled to share my experiences. VDC, as its known internally at Interoute, is a recent technology development from the development group based in London. It attempts to fuse the flexibility and elasticity of public cloud computing offerings, with the home-territory of Enterprise VPN business to which Interoute’s dense IP/MPLS network has always been strong and dependable, having arguably pioneering MPLS VPN technology in Europe. As a well-known critic of poor implementations of virtualisation technology within Interoute, I was invited to participate in an early beta trial and comment freely. Continue reading…