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 - 726 views - 10/15/09 by 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 - 593 views - 09/28/09 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 - 390 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News
What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol
in management APIs?
0 replies - 293 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 - 272 views - 09/04/09 by 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. Here
is...
0 replies - 675 views - 07/27/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 1179 views - 07/20/09 by 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 - 895 views - 06/12/09 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 - 404 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 - 1083 views - 05/04/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 937 views - 04/30/09 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 - 1658 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News
0 replies - 1055 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements
SD Times recently published an interesting article
about “cloud interoperability”. It has some well-informed opinions.
But, like all Cloud-related...
0 replies - 754 views - 04/13/09 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 - 361 views - 04/08/09 by vambenepe in News
