Management integration

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

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

0 replies - 445 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

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 - 849 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

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 - 666 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

Toolkits to wrap and bridge Cloud management protocols

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 - 432 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News

Separating model from protocol in Cloud APIs

What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs?

0 replies - 318 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News

VMWare publishes (and submits) vCloud API

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 - 298 views - 09/04/09 by vambenepe in News

A small step for SCA, a giant leap for BSM

In a very short post, Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components. Here is...

0 replies - 707 views - 07/27/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1229 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

With M (Oslo), is Microsoft on the path to reinventing RDF?

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 - 925 views - 06/12/09 by vambenepe in News

IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware

You can call it a “Cloud operating system”, an “adaptive infrastructure framework” or simply “IT management middleware” (my vote) as you prefer....

0 replies - 416 views - 05/22/09 by vambenepe 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

A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution

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 - 1706 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1106 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 - 791 views - 04/13/09 by vambenepe in News