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 - 415 views - 10/21/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 1159 views - 09/18/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 465 views - 09/16/09 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 - 435 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News
What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol
in management APIs?
0 replies - 319 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 - 299 views - 09/04/09 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 - 1235 views - 07/20/09 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 - 1124 views - 05/04/09 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 - 1718 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News
SD Times recently published an interesting article
about “cloud interoperability”. It has some well-informed opinions.
But, like all Cloud-related...
0 replies - 795 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 - 375 views - 04/08/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 847 views - 03/23/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 696 views - 03/03/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 356 views - 03/02/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 1005 views - 01/13/09 by vambenepe in News
