CloudSwitch Releases New Version With Enhanced Enterprise Features
CloudSwitch, Burlington based company founded in 2008 to make life easy for enterprises to extend their datacenter to the cloud, today announced the release of version 2 of their software with enhanced enterprise features. This release quickly follows version 1 of their software released about 6 months ago. With CloudSwitch, enterprises can easily run their [...]
Wikileaks, Amazon And Public Clouds
When Wikileaks released the documents from US State Department, it faced DDOS attacks from people who didn’t like what they were doing. To counter the DDOS attacks, Wikileaks moved to AWS for their hosting needs, a move touted by some in the Clouderati as a validation of public cloud computing. Today, the Wikileaks site is [...]
Enterprise Cloud Computing And Wikileaks Saga
In my previous post, I argued about how public clouds will eventually dominate the enterprise IT scene though better economics. I also pointed out that it is not going to happen anytime sooner because of concerns about security and compliance. Many of the public cloud advocates dismiss such enterprise concerns immediately and some even want [...]
Why Public Clouds Will Eventually Win The Game
Long term readers of this blog know my views on public vs private cloud debate. I believe that private clouds may dominate over public clouds among the enterprises in the short run but, in the long run, most of the workloads will move to the public clouds. The cloud economics will be a major driving [...]
Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus
Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wants you to believe that it [...]
Structure 2010: Public-Private Cloud Flareups
Last week GigaOm organized the third edition of their famous Structure conference. This is one of my favorite conferences because of their focus on Infrastructure topics. Unfortunately, I had to drop out in the last moment as I went down due to a viral attack. Still I managed to catch up with the sessions live [...]
Thinking About Security Is Old School? – A Dangerous Trend
Recently, I was listening to a podcast in which analysts were debating about public and private clouds. During the course of the discussions, one of the participants, a SaaS vendor, made a comment that disturbed me a bit. I think it is important that I address this issue here at Cloud Ave. It is my [...]
Cloud Security Needs A Rethink But The Evolution Will Be Slow
Image via Wikipedia Recently, Andreas M. Antonopoulos wrote an informative piece on Computer World about Cloud Security. In his post, he clearly outlines the mental shift needed on Cloud Security so that auditors and regulators are convinced about the issues of security and compliance. The crucial takeaway from his post is the following we are rapidly moving [...]
Eucalyptus Shakes Up Cloud Interoperability Scene
Eucalyptus Systems, the open source cloud computing project that graduated from the hallways of academia to industry few months back, is back in news again (Cloud Ave’s previous coverage of Eucalyptus is here and here. You can also listen to Paul Miller’s podcast here.). This time, they have made an announcement and its repercussions can [...]
Debunking A Myth: Are Private Clouds Exclusively Single Tenant?
In my post about the Public Vs Private Cloud debate, I pointed out to how the promoters of “only public clouds” idea use the financial component as a requirement in the very definition of cloud computing. In their quest to drive home their point about the economics behind the public clouds, these pundits, either knowingly or unknowingly, promote a [...]
UK Government To Have Countrywide Cloud Infrastructure
According to Reuven Cohen of Enomaly, UK Govt. is planning to release a countrywide Cloud Infrastructure. We, here at Cloud Ave, are a strong advocate of the use of Cloud Computing to make the Government more agile and efficient. You can check out the following posts on the topic. Riffing on the SaaS for the [...]
Can Soc-Nets Live On Public Clouds?
Derrick Harris, writing on GigaOm Pro (Subscription Required), puts forward an argument claiming that Social Networks like Facebook or Twitter cannot live on the public clouds. The real irony here is that, while social networks are cutting-edge web-based services, there is little symbiosis with the other cutting-edge web-based paradigm getting lots of attention lately: cloud [...]
