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 - 300 views - 11/03/09 by vambenepe in News
Cloud development toolkits like Libcloud (for Python) and jcloud
(for Java) have been around for some time, but over the last two months
they have been joined...
0 replies - 435 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News
What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol
in management APIs?
0 replies - 319 views - 09/09/09 by 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 - 299 views - 09/04/09 by 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 - 421 views - 05/22/09 by vambenepe in News
In the previous entry, I declared that I had a “guess as to why [the DMTF Cloud] incubator was created without a submission”,
that I may later reveal. Well...
2 replies - 1125 views - 05/04/09 by vambenepe in News
Before rushing to standardize “Cloud APIs”, let’s take a look back
at the previous attempt to tackle the same problem, which is one of IT
management...
0 replies - 1720 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News
I am glad to see that, as it inches towards standardization in the
DMTF, the CMDBf specification is getting more visibility. Forrester’s
Glenn O’Donnell...
0 replies - 375 views - 04/08/09 by vambenepe in News
The recent announcement of the Sun Cloud, and more specifically its API
is a good occasion to think about how much simplicity we really want in
our datacenter...
0 replies - 847 views - 03/23/09 by vambenepe in News
The tagline for this blog
is “IT management in a changing IT world”. Of course nobody but their
authors care about blog taglines. Still, in the unlikely...
0 replies - 1007 views - 03/13/09 by vambenepe in News
This is an exciting time for those who want to shrink the computer.
They are having a field day playing with devices powered by Android,
the iPhone’s Cocoa,...
0 replies - 840 views - 03/06/09 by vambenepe in News
I don’t get it. I just read Reuven Cohen’s description of the Unified Cloud Interface project that he recently started. It’s nothing less than using RDF...
0 replies - 1551 views - 02/03/09 by vambenepe in News
