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ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service

ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service

By Ben Kepes on February 11, 2013

I’m always interested to speak with companies trying to build innovative solutions outside of the US. Despite living away from the epicenter of technology myself, all to often I find myself displaying a Valley-centric perspective on companies and the solutions they bring to market. It’s good for all of us

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged chef, Cloudswitch, ComodIT, Configuration management, enstratus, puppet, rightscale, software as a service

Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

By Ben Kepes on June 27, 2012

The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to get going with these tools. They’re not focused on idealogical battles, but rather on finding easy […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, chef, cloud computing, enstratus, george reese, intel, openstack, opscode

Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

By Ben Kepes on November 15, 2011

Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there is a significant amount of activity in terms of startups being founded and funded. Today it’s the turn of Boundary, […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, amazon ec2, chef, devops, microsoft, puppet, Puppet Labs | 1 Response

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 17, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, chef, Cloudfoundry, crowbar, dell, enstratus, opscode, paas, paasfuture, platform services, rightscale, ubuntu, vmware | 2 Responses

Opscode Chef, The Secret Sauce Behind Dell Open Source Crowbar

Opscode Chef, The Secret Sauce Behind Dell Open Source Crowbar

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 3, 2011

Dell recently announced an OpenStack cloud solution that came with an installer, called Crowbar, which makes installation of OpenStack Cloud on bare metal servers seamless and less time consuming. In fact, with Crowbar, one can install OpenStack cloud on a rack within 30 mins or so. Dell has decided to open source Crowbar under Apache […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, chef, cloud computing, crowbar, dell, iaas, Infrastructure services, open source, openstack, opscode | 1 Response

Amazon Quietly Announces AWS CloudFormer

Amazon Quietly Announces AWS CloudFormer

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 10, 2011

Amazon made a quiet announcement on Wednesday in their forums about a release of a new prototype tool called AWS CloudFormer. This is a deviation from the usual practice where they announce newer features to their cloud offerings, however tiny the feature is, through a midnight blog post. The new tool allows users to create […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, aws cloudformer, briefs, chef, CloudComputing, Cloudformer, puppet | 1 Response

AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?

AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 25, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, aws cloudformation, bitnami, Cfengine, chef, cloudformation, ecosystem, insights, puppet, rightscale | 6 Responses

Openstack iPad App Is Coming To A Store Near You

Openstack iPad App Is Coming To A Store Near You

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 26, 2010

After Openstack was launched with much fanfare during OSCON, there has been a flurry of activity on the development community with thousands of contribution from hundreds of developers. Even though the main contribution is towards compute and storage, there are many smaller projects underway in the Openstack ecosystem. One such project is the iPad app […]

Posted in Open Source | Tagged chef, cloud computing, ipad, open source, openstack, opscode, rackspace

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