[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 - 2673 views - 12/10/09 by William Vambenepe in News
Things are heating up in the DMTF Cloud incubator. Back in September, VMWare submitted its vCloud API (or rather a “reader’s digest” version of it) to...
0 replies - 2962 views - 11/25/09 by William Vambenepe in News
PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas:
Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...
0 replies - 3830 views - 11/11/09 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 - 3658 views - 10/15/09 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 - 2446 views - 09/28/09 by William 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...
0 replies - 2136 views - 09/15/09 by William Vambenepe in News
What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol
in management APIs? For all the arguments we had in the design of WSDM and...
0 replies - 1244 views - 09/09/09 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 - 1818 views - 09/04/09 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 - 3316 views - 07/27/09 by William 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...
1 replies - 3518 views - 07/20/09 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 - 2620 views - 06/12/09 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 - 1455 views - 05/22/09 by William 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....
2 replies - 3925 views - 05/04/09 by William 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...
0 replies - 2830 views - 04/30/09 by William 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 - 5594 views - 04/28/09 by William Vambenepe in News
