Ok, Let’s Get Some Definitions & Operational Models Straight Here! PaaS is NOT…
I just got signed up for Cloud Connect Chicago and started checking out some of the talks. One talk jumped out, being that it is about PaaS Technology. After reading it though I immediately felt the need to straighten out some things that looked misleading. Maybe the presenter (JP Morgenthal) will lay these things out [...]
Day #1 => Cloud Expo & Cloud Bootcamp
Thanks to Larry Carvalho and Krishnan Subramanian for lining me up to speak at the kick off bootcamp keynote and for a PaaS Session at the Cloud Expo Boot Camp. I had a great time and was able to cover some great material with the audience. It was great to hear a number of companies [...]
An Open Source Software ala VMware Guide :: A.K.A. Get Clarity on Contributing to the CloudFoundry Project!
I’ve jumped into committing some source code to the Cloud Foundry Project and I wanted to document the process so far. The Cloud Foundry project is a little trickier than most open source projects, because there are a host of tools around the process. As that is the case, it isn’t a simple github repository [...]
CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality
Remember BOSH? The open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and life cycle management of very large scale instances of Cloud Foundry, announced a few weeks back? They initially released it with support for VMware infrastructure and Amazon EC2. Since it was open source, there were expectations that others will build the necessary interface for [...]
VMware’s CloudFoundry Strategy
Last week, CloudFoundry project (previous CloudAve coverage) celebrated its first birthday and they made a few announcements that gave indications on their plans with the popular PaaS platform. Before I talk about it, I will briefly cover the news for the sake of completion. Some of the announcements that came out of the event include: [...]
Cloud Foundry 1 Year Anniversary & New Bits (Code Included)
Today was the 1 year anniversary for the Cloud Foundry Open Source PaaS Project. For info on what PaaS is, especially related to open source and related to Cloud Foundry check out my 5 part series at New Relic’s Blog; Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.1, Part 3.14159265, Part 4, and Part 5 (which I …
FeedHenry Powers Mobile Application on Cloud Foundry
In researching a development whitepaper that I’m soon to publish, I’ve been struck by how development is now a strongly bifurcated role – there is a segmentation of needs and skills between those building for the backend – who need to think about scale, DevOps and stability, and those building for the frontend who worry [...]
Tier 3 Brings Out The Heavy Guns!
There are cloud offerings and then there are cloud offerings. As of today, Tier 3 just loaded up some big guns. Over the years Tier 3 has provided an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) play using various geographically located data-centers with high level disaster recovery, high availability (99.999%), utility compute, and high speed storage to [...]
Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director
Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like” functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another step closer today with the beta release of version two of
AppFog, Fort of Awesome & Node PDX Updated!
Time for the secret to be out of the bag. I’m currently working on contract with the awesome company of AppFog in the Fort of Awesome. Let me tell you, it is indeed awesome too! You might ask why I am working with them? How do I align with them? What is it they do? [...]
ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services
With the multitude of PaaS vendors that now exist, most providing an all-things-to-all-people polyglot solution that is (in my view at least) largely undifferentiated from their competitors, there is an increasing focus on vendors making partnerships that allows them to build both mindshare and market penetration. The latest is ActiveState who has announced that their [...]
Two Events That “Clouded” Our Thinking In 2011
2011 is long gone and I should have done this post last week. However, I still think it is relevant to highlight some changes in our thinking about the cloud that happened due to events in 2011. Whether many agree with me or not, I see 2011 as a year where cloud computing moved from [...]
CloudFoundry Strikes Again: Uhuru Software Delivers Another .NET implementation
Just two days back, CloudFoundry community got excited about the support for .NET on the CloudFoundry framework. Even before the euphoria subsided, there is another announcement coming today, this time from Uhuru Software, about another implementation of .NET on CloudFoundry. Uhuru is a startup coming out of Stealth mode, founded by Microsoft veterans, offering comprehensive [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Tier3 Adds .NET Support To CloudFoundry By Forking It
Today Tier3, Bellevue based enterprise cloud hosting provider, announced that they are adding .NET support to CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) by forking it. With this, they are essentially pushing VMware’s PaaS solution into Windows shops who might be interested in using an open source alternative. Remember it is not a mono implementation but .NET based one of [...]
Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep
I’m sitting on the bus this morning. As happens almost every day of the week. I’m flipping pages, sort of, it’s an eBook on my Kindle App. I’m reading about Steve Jobs taking over the Macintosh Program at Apple. How things started to fall into place for Apple, for the Macintosh, and how Jobs saw [...]
