Specs

Missing out on the Open Cloud Computing Interface fun

As a recovering “design by committee” offender I have to be careful when lurking near standards groups mailing list, for fear my instincts may take over...

0 replies - 370 views - 10/21/09 by vambenepe in News

REST-*: good specs, bad branding?

In an earlier post, I argued for standardization of some basic REST-inspired mechanisms for the narrow goal of supporting control interfaces for different...

0 replies - 1072 views - 09/18/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) draft released

Have you developed “Cloud API fatigue” from seeing too many IaaS “Cloud APIs” lately? Are you starting to wonder how many different ways there can...

0 replies - 432 views - 09/16/09 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 - 392 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 - 293 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 - 272 views - 09/04/09 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 - 1180 views - 07/20/09 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 - 1083 views - 05/04/09 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 - 1658 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

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 - 754 views - 04/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Federationing

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

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

CMDBf is a lot more and a lot less than you think

The DMTF CMDBf working group has recently published an updated draft of its specification. The final version should follow soon and I don’t expect major...

0 replies - 678 views - 03/03/09 by vambenepe in News

Analyzing the DMTF incubator process

Depending on how you choose to look at it, either the DMTF has streamlined the process of defining standards or it has created a rubberstamping machine. I am...

0 replies - 347 views - 03/02/09 by vambenepe in News

A new SPIN on enriching a model with domain knowledge (constraints and inferences)

Back when I was at HP and we got involved with what turned into SML (now a W3C candidate recommendation), we tried to make a case for the specification to be...

1 replies - 979 views - 01/13/09 by vambenepe in News