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 - 464 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
A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement).
That’s...
1 replies - 426 views - 05/27/09 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
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 - 979 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 - 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
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts where I discuss what I see
wrong with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in the way that it's
being sold by...
0 replies - 688 views - 03/25/09 by nealford in News
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts where I discuss what I see
wrong with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in the way that it's
being sold by...
0 replies - 772 views - 03/24/09 by nealford 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
