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Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 450 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

Enumeration of PaaS container types

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 - 525 views - 11/10/09 by vambenepe in News

William Vambenepe on SpringSource acquiring Hyperic

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 - 755 views - 05/05/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Cloud API: what’s cooking between IBM and VMWare?

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 - 1120 views - 05/04/09 by vambenepe in News

A pulp view of Cloud computing politics

As promised, here are some more thoughts on the creation by DMTF of an incubator for Cloud standards. The first part of this blog asks whether DMTF will play...

0 replies - 975 views - 04/30/09 by vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1108 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements

Reality check on Cloud portability

SD Times recently published an interesting article about “cloud interoperability”. It has some well-informed opinions. But, like all Cloud-related...

0 replies - 792 views - 04/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud computing: would you like flexibility with your simplicity?

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 - 842 views - 03/23/09 by vambenepe in News

Managing the stack from top to bottom, including virtualization

The press release for the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 came out yesterday, but that’s not all: the Oracle VM Management Pack for...

0 replies - 667 views - 03/06/09 by vambenepe in News

Unified Cloud Interface: setting RDF for failure?

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 - 1546 views - 02/03/09 by vambenepe in News

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 3253 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News