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 [...]
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, [...]
OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included
Yesterday OpenStack rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally answering those who say it isn’t yet ready for real world implementations and specifically includes the following additional components; OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) OpenStack Compute additional functionality OpenStack Image Registry One aspect of the release that [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners
This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware’s CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and developers, there [...]
Right Scale And Zend Announce Portable PHP PaaS
RightScale (see previous CloudAve coverage), one of the leading cloud management companies, and Zend (see previous CloudAve coverage) have announced a solution to deploy and manage business critical PHP applications in the cloud. In this era of open federated PaaS, pushed into prominence by VMware last week, this is RightScale’s way of jumping into the [...]
AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?
Amazon Web Services (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced AWS CloudFormation, which lets developers and system admins use recipes to create and provision resources in Amazon cloud. This is conceptually similar to Opscode’s Chef Recipes which lets ops folks configure some aspect of the systems in their ecosystem. Clearly, AWS must have seen how Chef [...]
Rightscale Adds Dev & Test Support To Beef Up Their Offering
Rightscale (See CloudAve’s previous coverage of Rightscale), the leading cloud management company, today announced their support for Development and Testing in the cloud. This is one feature that was lacking in Rightscale as they try to push themselves hard in the enterprise cloud marketplace. Skytap, the company that was focussing on Labs play earlier, has [...]
Rightscale Now Supports Windows Servers Bringing Parity With Linux
Rightscale, the leading cloud management vendor, today announced support for Windows based applications on the cloud. This puts the support for Windows applications on par with Linux based ones, making cloud automation, management and portability for Windows instances as easy as Linux instances. This also helps Rightscale target organizations using Windows servers for their IT needs. [...]
RightScale Offers Gaming Edition
Cloud Brokers are service providers who sit between the user and the cloud to offer additional value add on top of the cloud. The research firm Gartner lists adding services like security and management on top of the cloud aggregating the services of customers over many different cloud platforms arbitrage between the cloud services making [...]
Rightscale Brings Business Intelligence To The Clouds
Business Intelligence Suites are crucial for the success of any company. They help us understand past, present and future aspects of the business by mining the company data. Once upon a time, Business Intelligence (BI) software were proprietary software and the exorbitant cost made sure that only big enterprises could afford such software. Just like [...]
Talking to CEO Michael Crandell about RightScale and Cloud Computing
Continuing my ongoing series of conversations with those shaping the Cloud Computing landscape, yesterday I spoke with Michael Crandell of Santa Barbara-based RightScale [CloudAve coverage]. The result has just been published as a podcast. RightScale is one example of a growing industry segment that seeks to disguise some of the complexity of maintaining (and, crucially, [...]
