The Evolution of IT Towards Cloud Computing
I’ve talked about this idea many times and it’s been picked up and echoed by many in the mainstream media. The idea is this: Cloud computing is a new paradigm for IT that displaces the current dominant paradigm, enterprise computing. This is in the same way that enterprise computing (or “client/server”) displaced mainframe computing as [...]
VMware’s Cloud Strategy: Neither Deadwood Nor Sandalwood But More Than A Collection Of Driftwoods
Last week VMworld happened and some of the Clouderati were busy hanging out in the halls of Moscone Center at San Francisco. I was planning to attend the event but had to cancel due to personal reasons. But a steady stream of tweets and blog posts kept me updated about everything from the keynotes to [...]
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 [...]
VMWorld Spoilers: vCloud Express And VMware Go
This is the week of VMworld, the leading virtualization event to be held at The Moscone Center, San Francisco from today to Sept. 3rd, 2009. This event, used as a platform to pimp the products of VMware, is building quite a bit of excitement among the pundit and others who are interested in virtualization and [...]
VMware Announces Cloud OS And Cloud Interoperability Roadmap
Image by Robert Scoble via Flickr In VMworld Europe 2009, VMware CEO, Paul Maritz, announced the technological roadmap for their new Virtual Data Center OS (VDC-OS) and vCloud API to enable interoperability across Clouds. Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming to Cloud Computing by jumping into what are called as Private Clouds, a cloud like [...]
