CAMP: Will It Be Relevant?
Last week at CloudOpen 2012, a group of vendors in the platforms space announced a new set of specifications to help simplify management of applications in the public and private clouds. Called CAMP, these specifications are submitted to OASIS to develop it as an industry standard. The initial reaction from the industry and some cloud [...]
rPath Press Release: False Promise of PaaS and Impact on Businesses
To add context to the discussion and why I perceive rPath’s use of the term PaaS is actually a misuse of the term, I am posting a press release I got from them on May 9th 2012 with the above title and the content below. ################################################################## Is PaaS (Platform as a Service) an all-encompassing solution [...]
rPath’s Enterprise PaaS Is Not PaaS. Period.
rPath (previous CloudAve coverage) has been pushing their offering as Enterprise PaaS. Recently they briefed me on their announcement made this week around VMworld about Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework. They unveiled this along with Cisco Systems as a way for enterprises to push their legacy applications to cloud. They are arguing that enterprises are [...]
The Bad, The Ugly and The Good Bits :: Sexism, VMworld 2012 & Smart Cool People
The Divide in Technologists… Sexism & Those That are Building Tech There seems to be a pretty distinctive divide in the technology industry today. There are the young, open minded, devop oriented, free-thinking individuals and then there are the old guard of IT. This later group still brings the “booth babes” and finds an incessant [...]
Engine Yard’s Evolution: Support For Node.js
Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage), one of the earliest PaaS players to enter the market, today announced the availability of Node.js support on their platform. This is the next step in the evolution of a company that started as a pure play Ruby on Rails PaaS player on AWS. The last few announcements clearly indicate that [...]
When did Amazon abandon Main Street for ‘the Skyscrapers of Cloud Hosting’ ?
In the competitive world of cloud-based computing infrastructure, Amazon remains top dog. It’s highly visible, its footprint is almost global, it incrementally adds features or cuts prices to keep competitors on their toes, and it generally manages to meet most people’s needs, most of the time. It may not always offer the lowest prices, or [...]
A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in San Francisco for VMware annual conference, VMworld. This will actually be my first time attending the even in person and I suspect I’ve chosen the best year to be there – there are some seismic shifts occurring in VMware’s business and I
Nope, Ben Is Wrong About What I Said And Open Source
Today Ben Kepes of Diversity Ltd. made a post about OpenStack. Without going into the merits of his post, I will like to address a paragraph where he quotes me. At OSCON recently, I joined Alex Williams of TechCrunch and Krishnan Subramanian from Cloudave to discuss the future of the cloud. We spent quite some [...]
OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability
The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product is powered by OpenStack, and combines that with SSD-powered nodes to deliver a compact rack mount [...]
Service Providers And PaaS
As I push the themes of federated clouds and paas as the future of cloud services hard, people always question me about how these two seemingly disparate themes reconcile and how can I tie up different, seemingly, loose ends in my model. I will one day dust off my laziness and write about the big [...]
Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS
Today is an exciting day for anyone who follows the infrastructure or PaaS space today as Rackspace announced the general availability of cloud services powered by OpenStack. It’s also a satisfying day for those who have argued at length with people within the cloud community who have been adamant that OpenStack isn’t actually ready for [...]
AppFog Goes GA, Helps Developers Forget About Economics
AppFog is today announcing it is ready fro general availability and rolling out some changes along side the release. I spent some time talking with AppFog founder Lucas Carlson last week at OSCON and then again this week by phone to dive in on the details of the release. In
VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do
With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely planning to spin off some of its assets into a separate
Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis
Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech community. Even though there were lot of talk about the VMware angle in the story and about Microsoft planning to push Azure as the cloud OS of [...]
Microsoft Offers Hosts Another Cloud to Chose From–White Labels Azure
Microsoft this week announced a new program that will allow hosting service providers to use existing data centers to deliver a white-label version of Azure. This is a progression from the announcement last month that Microsoft was giving developers the ability to achieve symmetry between public and private PaaS with .NET as this announcement heads [...]
