Utility computing

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

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

PaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist plaform

I don’t know anyone in Silicon Valley who can code and doesn’t fantasize about writing an accidental killer app. One that gets designed during a long...

0 replies - 590 views - 10/05/09 by vambenepe in News

Look Ma, no hypervisor!

Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its...

0 replies - 425 views - 09/29/09 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

Are these your files? I found them on my cloud

Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking? It can happen in different ways. See for example this recent research paper, titled “Hey, You, Get...

0 replies - 859 views - 09/03/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on VMWare, SpringSource and PaaS

I am late to the party for  commenting on the upstream and downstream acquisitions involving SpringSource. I was away on vacations, but Rod Johnson obviously...

0 replies - 855 views - 08/27/09 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 - 1179 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud APIs need to be complemented by Cloud processes

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 - 406 views - 05/27/09 by vambenepe in News

IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware

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

William Vambenepe on SpringSource acquiring Hyperic

SpringSource’s Rod Johnson tells us today that his company just bought Hyperic. The press release is a bit more specific, announcing that SpringSource...

0 replies - 729 views - 05/05/09 by Masoud Kalali 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 pulp view of Cloud computing politics

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