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 - 851 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 672 views - 10/05/09 by vambenepe in News
Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between
virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the
term “virtualization” (and its...
0 replies - 482 views - 09/29/09 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 - 463 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 - 432 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News
What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol
in management APIs?
0 replies - 318 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 - 298 views - 09/04/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 891 views - 09/03/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 906 views - 08/27/09 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 - 1230 views - 07/20/09 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 - 425 views - 05/27/09 by 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 - 419 views - 05/22/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 755 views - 05/05/09 by Masoud Kalali 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 - 1122 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 - 975 views - 04/30/09 by vambenepe in News
