Open Cloud Initiative Is Dead Long Live OCI
First let me make it clear that Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) is not dead and it is going to stay for a long time advocating openness. Also, I will fight all I can to keep it going. Having said that I am writing this post to re-emphasize something which I have been saying all along. [...]
Quick Take: AT&T Joins OpenStack
OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) got a big boost today with the announcement that AT&T is joining the OpenStack community. According to a blog post by AT&T, they are becoming the first US Telco to join OpenStack community. We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack [...]
OSCON Week: Open Cloud Initiative Launched To Drive Open Standards In Cloud Computing
This is OSCON Week here at Portland, Oregon and it is time for some interesting news involving openness and cloud computing. Last year it was OpenStack and this year, even though the impact factor is not similar, it is Open Cloud Initiative (OCI). Open Cloud Initiative is a non-profit organization put together by a bunch of well known individuals who advocate openness [...]
What is Really Holding the Cloud Back?
As I was listening to speakers at Structure Conference this year, something caught my attention and changed my thinking on cloud priorities. When IT decision makers are asked to rate the top challenges for cloud adoption, security always rises to the top. Security, security, security. At Structure, I heard something slightly different from Microsoft’s Satya [...]
Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. Specifically, Amazon has changed our entire industry in profound ways often not attributed strongly enough [...]
Openstack Enters Feature Freeze Stage
Openstack (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the open source cloud computing play by Rackspace, NASA and many other vendors, has entered an interesting milestone last week. According to Openstack roadmap, the first version of the stack will be released on October 21st 2010. In preparation for this release date, they have entered the feature freeze [...]
Citrix’s Confusing Open Cloud Strategy
Early this week Citrix announced their Citrix Open Cloud framework and ever since I am confused both about their name and also their strategy. Part of my confusion is due to the vague information, without any specifics, on their website and seemingly arrogant response on Twitter by some of their top executives when asked to [...]
OSCON Week: Openstack.org, A Game Changer?
Yesterday, we saw the announcement by Rackspace that they have joined hands with NASA and 25 other companies to create Openstack.org, an open source cloud community. Rackspace also announced that they are open sourcing their entire cloud stack and give it to the project. As expected, it has created both positive and negative reactions from [...]
VMOps Reboots As Cloud.com
Image via CrunchBase Regular readers of CloudAve know that I am a sucker of federated clouds and I have been pushing the idea of regional clouds hard. In this context, I have been talking about enablers like VMOps and regional cloud providers like Reliacloud and Scaleup Technologies . Today, VMOps announced that they are rebranding as [...]
Video: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud – Panel Discussion
There was a panel discussion held sometime back during the collaboration summit 2010 and the topic was “Does Open Source Means Open Cloud”. Since this topic is closer to my heart and of interest to many of Cloud Ave readers, I am embedding the video here. You could also view the video directly on this [...]
ScaleUp Technologies, Powering The Cloud For German Users
For a long time, I am debunking the idea that the cloud infrastructure market will consolidate and we will end up with a handful of monopoly players. In my opinion this is short sighted idea and it is due to the lack of understanding of the diverse needs of users around the world. One way [...]
Open-Xchange Gains SaaS Traction
Open-Xchange, pushed as an open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, is a versatile collaboration tool helping enterprises, academia and government take advantage of their smart collaboration capabilities. In this era where having a good collaboration platform is turning out to be a competitive advantage, Open-Xchange is better positioned in the marketplace due to their open [...]
OpenECP, An Enomaly ECP Fork
Image via CrunchBase I am a strong supporter of Open Source Software and a proponent of the importance of open source in cloud computing. It is my strong opinion that open source will empower the customers giving them access to the software even after the company behind the product goes out of business. In this [...]
RIP: Sun Cloud
In March of last year, then independent Sun Microsystems announced their plans for cloud computing. There were some people who dismissed it outright and many more who were skeptical of Sun’s plans. I was in a minority and was pretty excited about the announcement because of its potential to keep the clouds open. In the [...]
Winners And Losers of 2009 – III
This is the final post of this series and this year. After talking about the winners and losers of 2009, let me briefly talk about some of the cloud computing providers who are neither the winners nor the losers in the year ending today. The fortunes of these companies could go either way based on [...]
