On TOSCA and Cloud Standards. MyPOV
Recently OASIS standards body started work on the proposed Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (or TOSCA) for short, standards specification. The standard aims to deliver on the long-heralded, but much disputed concept of cloud bursting – the ability to move workloads between public and private infrastructure in a transparent way. I posted about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This is a review post that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. As many of you long time readers know, I’ve been ‘in [...]
Coming To A Place Near You: A Private Cloud Spiked With Big Data
Netflix similarity map Yesterday, I moderated a couple of panels at the Big Data Cloud event. I have been a keynote speaker, panelist, moderator, and participant for many conferences in the last few years. It has always been a pleasure to see the cloud and big data becoming more and more mainstream. Here are my [...]
Puppet Labs Scores Series C
In an indication of both the general frothiness of the investment space, and the excitement that investors have in cloud services, automation software vendor Puppet Labs is today announcing a $8.5M series C funding round which includes a strategic move by Cisco, Google and VMware. Puppet Labs has gained some big name customers including Zynga, [...]
Rackspace Private Cloud: Repackaging Fanatical Support Around OpenStack
Yesterday Rackspace announced Rackspace Cloud Private Edition, a repackaging of their Cloud Builder services around the OpenStack product. If you want to hear a purely open source perspective on this move, I recommend you to read Christian Reilly’s article on the topic. However, I am going to approach the topic from the business strategy point [...]
Cloud Spring
Following the November 7 announcement of Rackspace’s tantalizingly named (and OpenStack-powered) Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition, I’ve found that I have descended into doing something I don’t normally do – getting all hot under the collar over what amounts to really nothing more than a clever positioning statement. First, let me clear a few things up. I [...]
CloudU Webinar Recap: Does Data Want to be Free?
Last week we had the latest CloudU webinar, this time looking at the role of Open Standards in Cloud Computing. I was really excited to be joined on the call by Scott Sanchez, someone who is intimately involved with one of the biggest Cloud Open Standards plays, OpenStack. As well as Sanchez, we were joined [...]
Oracle Introduces Cloud and Social. My Perspective
by Oracle_Photos_Screenshots During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees, a number of announcements were made with the usual Ellison flourishes. Curiously these two massive announcements were made towards the [...]
Defining Federated Cloud Ecosystems
Recently, a friend of mine came up to me and asked “Can you succinctly define Federated Cloud Ecosystems?”. That lead to an instantaneous brainstorming between three of us and we came up with a few characteristics that defines Federated Cloud Ecosystems like NIST did for cloud computing. I tweaked the gist from our discussions to [...]
OpenStack Foundation Launched
The OpenStack Project (previous CloudAve coverage), so far under the “control” of Rackspace, announced their intention to launch a foundation which will control the governance and trademarks of the project. This is a big news and warrants a short analysis because I have talked about this issue when it erupted after Rick Clark’s departure and [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Heroku Adds Scala And Cumulogic Goes OpenStack
Gone are the days when I have to emphasize the importance of PaaS as the future of cloud services and we are now seeing a complete transformation of the PaaS space with all the PaaS vendors focussing on multi-language and multi-cloud trend. In fact, the PaaS layer is somewhat commoditized with very little differentiation and [...]
pentOS: Why It Is Interesting?
Piston Computing (previous CloudAve coverage), the OpenStack ecosystem player founded by former NASA architect, yesterday announced the release of enterprise grade OpenStack distribution called pentOS (for Piston Enterprise OS). It is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. With this [...]
Deploying OpenStack Is Difficult? It’s A Myth!!
Ever since Open Source came into existence, one of the biggest myths about them is “it is not user friendly”. Everything from it is not easy to use to it is difficult to even deploy were thrown against open source. Most of the times, it was intentional FUD unleashed by proprietary vendors whose business is [...]
