Misconceptions About Federated Clouds
As I promote the idea of federated clouds (previous CloudAve coverage), there seems to be some misconceptions among readers and other bloggers. I thought I will use this post to clarify these misconceptions. For beginners, please check out this post on the definition of federated cloud ecosystems. Federated clouds is pushed as an alternative to [...]
Open Philosophy: Innovating Around Roadblocks
I have been advocating mobile apps over native apps in this space. In my opinion, mobile apps based on open standards help us overcome the restrictions thrown on our way with proprietary vendors wanting to influence control over their customers. Even though these restrictions are anti-competitive and, in some cases, goes against the very essence of [...]
Limitations of Proprietary Licensing in the Cloud Marketplace
Image via CrunchBase I am an unabashed advocate of Opensource philosophy. I personally believe that Opensource spurs innovation and offers better security. However, I don’t consider proprietary nature of software and standards as an outright evil. In my opinion, Opensource and Proprietary approaches are two different approaches to solving the same problem. Since I don’t [...]
