[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful...
0 replies - 2704 views - 12/10/09 by William Vambenepe in News
When I left HP for Oracle, in the summer of 2007, a friend made the
argument that Cloud Computing (I think we were still saying “Utility
Computing” at...
0 replies - 2590 views - 12/07/09 by William Vambenepe in News
PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas:
Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...
0 replies - 3898 views - 11/11/09 by William Vambenepe in News
What do we need from an on-demand application platform for
enterprise software? Here is a proposed classification of container
types on which you can...
0 replies - 2306 views - 11/10/09 by William Vambenepe in News
Andi Mann recently wrote an interesting post about virtual appliances . He uses the domain name pleasediscuss.com for his blog so I figured I’d do just that....
0 replies - 1131 views - 11/03/09 by William Vambenepe in News
The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config
changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a
sore point in the Cloud...
0 replies - 3716 views - 10/15/09 by William Vambenepe in News
Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between
virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the
term “virtualization” (and...
0 replies - 2112 views - 09/29/09 by William Vambenepe in News
PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API
project) to abstract and access application-level...
0 replies - 2472 views - 09/28/09 by William Vambenepe in News
VMWare published its vCloud API yesterday (it was previously only available to a few partners) and submitted it to the DMTF, as had been previously announced....
0 replies - 1853 views - 09/04/09 by William Vambenepe in News
I am late to the party for commenting on the upstream and
downstream acquisitions involving SpringSource. I was away on
vacations, but Rod Johnson...
0 replies - 2402 views - 08/27/09 by William Vambenepe in News
In a very short post,
Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL
processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components....
0 replies - 3347 views - 07/27/09 by William Vambenepe in News
I have given up, at least for now, on understanding what Microsoft
wants Oslo (and more specifically the “M” part) to be. I used to pull
my hair reading...
0 replies - 2647 views - 06/12/09 by William Vambenepe in News
A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement).
That’s...
1 replies - 2338 views - 05/27/09 by William Vambenepe in News
You can call it a “Cloud operating system”, an “adaptive
infrastructure framework” or simply “IT management middleware” (my
vote) as you prefer....
0 replies - 1478 views - 05/22/09 by William Vambenepe in News
SpringSource’s Rod Johnson tells us today that his company just bought Hyperic. The press release
is a bit more specific, announcing that SpringSource...
0 replies - 1826 views - 05/05/09 by Masoud Kalali in News
