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 [...]
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 [...]
Early Signs Of Big Data Going Mainstream
Today, Cloudera announced a new $40m funding round to scale their sales and marketing efforts and a partnership with NetApp where NetApp will resell Cloudera’s Hadoop as part of their solution portfolio. These both announcements are critical to where the cloud and Big Data are headed. Big Data going mainstream: Hadoop and MapReduce are not [...]
What happens in Vegas…
As I board the plane to head to Las Vegas for 2011′s Interop and Enterprise Cloud Summit, predictably, yet somewhat rhetorically, the great AWS outage post mortem continues to rumble on. Exactly two weeks after the event, blog after blog and article after article continues to serve up a veritable range of delights from the [...]
Cloud-in-a-Van
Yes, you can have your Private Cloud. By mail-order? @reillyusaChristian Reilly IBM Smart TV commercial "computing has left the box"…yes, it’s on a USPS truck on the way to me. Yay ! Mail order cloud ! Nah, the best solution is Cloud-in-a-Van: @DEVOPS_BORATDevOps Borat We launch new product ‘Cloud in Van’. Azamat drive van around [...]
Cloud.com Releases New Version And Gains Momentum
Cloud.com (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform provider formerly known as VMOps, recently announced the new version of their cloud platform, CloudStack 2.2, with some cool features. They have also showcases some of their customers and have promised to showcase more in the coming weeks and months. I have been following Cloud.com [...]
The Hollywood Culture
Debates are fun, especially when you are jousting with such fantastic and respected cloud dignitaries as Chris Hoff, Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley. Come on, I mean who wouldn’t enjoy a good natured, well intended, yet fierce back and forth about the various clouds and their various philosophies ? Well, March 12 was a day [...]
If You’re API And You Know It
One of the most difficult things I am finding in this fractious time of cloud evolution is to define a plan (with any great authority) on absolutely anything strategic. Today’s fast-moving combination of business demands, architectural thought processes, technology shifts, and the sheer number of options within the vendor ecosystem is changing at such a pace [...]
Service Please…
On Tuesday of this week (Feb. 8th) my cloud-buddy, Ben Kepes, lined me up to participate in a Focus Group Round Table event entitled “Forwards and Upwards – 2011 In The Clouds“. Using his excellent moderating skills, Ben championed a very interesting 45 minute discussion (mp3 recording of which can be found here) with myself, [...]
NATO takes tentative Cloud steps, with help from IBM
As part of a restructuring of the organisation’s US-based data centres, the acronym-laden NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) today announced that its ACT (Allied Command Transformation) will be deploying IBM‘s PCS (Private Cloud Solution*) inside its HQ SACT (Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation) in Norfolk, VA. According to IBM’s E.J. Herold, the company is delivering [...]
Clouds and my Coffee
Sydney is an amazing city, much like most Western large cities in many ways and much different too. The CloudBlog team decided to check on how Sydney perceives cloud computing – extremely well it seems. Within a half dozen meetings and one keynote from CloudBlogger Peter Coffee it…
Maestro 3: Build, Test And Deploy In Private Cloud
MaestroDev, the company offering enterprise software build platform and private cloud, today announced the release of Maestro 3, their latest version of platform that features an innovative application layer that deeply integrates with a broad range of open source tools. As the DevOps go towards a more automated approach, a comprehensive platform like the one [...]
The Transient Nature Of Private Clouds
An interesting thread hes been going on within the enterprise irregulars group on what constitutes private clouds –as again very enlightened discussion therein. The issue that I want to talk about is if private cloud do indeed exist, then what is their adoption path ? Lets start from the beginning : the issue is can [...]
Enterprises Consider Business Agility As A Primary Driver Towards Cloud
I recently had a chance to read a Sandhill.com report titled Leaders In The Cloud. It is a pretty comprehensive report analyzing the business value of cloud computing for both customers and vendors. This report has a quantitative survey of IT executives from businesses of all sizes and shapes. Anyone wanting to understand the cloud [...]
Microsoft Releases VMMSSP
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of VMMSSP, which in short form is called as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self-Service Portal 2. VMMSSP is the partner-extensible solution built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and System Center VMM. This announcement marks the second part of their private cloud strategy. Let us [...]
