Equinix Announces Marketplace: Will It Help Federated Cloud Ecosystems?
Equnix, global leader in the datacenter space with more than 90 data centers all over the world, today announced a global marketplace for their Platform Equinix customers. Platform Equinix is their data center platform tapping into their vast array of data centers from many different geographical locations targeting everyone from SMBs to enterprises. Platform Equinix is [...]
OpenStack Conference And Design Summit: A Recap
Last week I spent some time at the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference at Santa Clara, talking to developers, ecosystem partners, analysts, etc. on where OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) is headed. There were almost 500 people from the OpenStack community who attended the event. There was excitement in the air and I saw many new [...]
ComputeNext: Google For Compute Resources
I recently had a conversation with a stealth cloud startup called ComputeNext which got me fired up because they are doing something that I have been advocating here in this space, emergence of an open federated cloud ecosystem. Well, they are not building a federated ecosystem per se but they have gone one step further [...]
OpenStack Bexar Release: What Makes It Interesting?
Last week, OpenStack Project (see previous CloudAve coverage) announced the release of their second release codenamed Bexar. This brings OpenStack closer to production deployment and we can expect to see news about OpenStack deployments both from service providers and enterprise. This release not only marked some maturity in the code but the announcement also carries [...]
ScaleUp Enables A Federated Cloud Ecosystem
Image via CrunchBase Scaleup Technologies (see previous CloudAve coverage), the Germany based Cloud infrastructure provider, is planning to announce support for federation across multiple cloud providers from within their Cloud management platform. This is particularly exciting to me because I have been advocating open federated cloud ecosystem in this blog for a long time and [...]
Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?
Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is that Openstack is dumping the API compatibility mode. Nebula, the cloud computing project [...]
Cloud Computing On The Way To Gain Some Traction In The European Market
European industry is very slow to adopting cloud computing compared to their counterparts in US. In my previous posts about the European scene, I have pointed out to the lackluster adoption by the European organizations. I asked them about the European cloud market and what kind of traction they are seeing in the market. Christoph told me [...]
Scaleup Offers Regional Cloud Storage
Scaleup Technologies, the germany based cloud provider, is offering an Amazon S3 like storage solution with data residing inside Germany (See previous Cloud Ave coverage of Scaleup here). I have been long advocating that consolidation of IaaS players will not happen due to the diversity in the world and their diverse requirements. Especially in Europe, [...]
Cloud Computing Outside the US
Information Week has an article that talks about the difference between the US and European Cloud Computing markets. The article points out to some numbers given by The 451 Group’s William Fellows The 451 Group’s William Fellows in a “Cloud Outlook 2010″ Webcast, says that 57% of spending on cloud computing is done in the [...]
The Fate Of Small Web Hosts
Image via Wikipedia Recently, there was a discussion on Twitter about the fate of small webhosts. I thought I will expand my thoughts here in this post. Traditional web hosting ecosystems are huge spanning big hosts offering enterprise level managed hosting to a college kid having a reseller account to sell hosting space to [...]
ScaleUp Technologies, Powering The Cloud For German Users
For a long time, I am debunking the idea that the cloud infrastructure market will consolidate and we will end up with a handful of monopoly players. In my opinion this is short sighted idea and it is due to the lack of understanding of the diverse needs of users around the world. One way [...]
