Comments on: Skytap Matures Into A Cloud Automation Provider

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[...] have to go lengths to get it fixed. Skytap provides the capability to move applications with ease. Krishnan Subramanian wrote earlier this year that Skytap is a hot company to watch due to its ability to “enable IT organizations the [...]

By: Jeremy Lapon

Jeremy Lapon — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:06:41 +0000

That’s a super-strong and seemingly very defensive reaction to an innocent question (“How is this new?”)… most articles I read about the Cloud (including Wikipedia) mention automation, and indicate that RackSpace, Amazon, CloudShare, Surgient, VMlogix, Akimbi, Scalent, Cassatt, Egenera and others have had that capability including APIs for years. It was a bit surprising to not see any of them mentioned, and to have this functionality seemingly hailed as so groundbreaking (your words were “has completely
altered the game”).
Again, my -personal- favorite, having used it and liked it and its free price, was CloudShare (my affiliation was stated openly in my original post; note that I am not nor have I ever been any sort of full-time ‘employee’ of CloudShare). Hope you didn’t take too much offense – again, none was
intended, and I’m personally a bit surprised by the strength of your response, as I’d expect as a public blogger you’re used to such questions…?
Best regards, hope you approve this comment too to show both sides of the
debate, and have a better day

By: Krishnan Subramanian

Krishnan Subramanian — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:35:47 +0000

Jeremy, I am not sure if you are associated with Cloudshare or not. If yes, it is a shame that such cheap shots are brought in by your company to this blog. If not, you have no idea about what I was briefed and what I intend to do regarding Cloudshare. Usually, I don’t respond to jerky comments but I am responding because I know that I am giving equal opportunity to both the companies. It will just take a minute for me to expose your unreasonable accusations. If you want to debate about any of my writings like a grown up adult, I am happy to do it.

By: Jeremy Lapon

Jeremy Lapon — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:39:22 +0000

How is this new? I’ve been a consultant to CloudShare, and they’ve had this capability for over a year. They also have a GUI that seems to
top SkyTap’s and CloudShare is free. I’m a bit surprised you didn’t mention Skytaps’s competitors. Google “CloudShare Pro” and it’s all over the net, including USAToday. This article could have been better researched and more than simply repeating SkyTap’s PR.