What’s Cloud Management ?
This last year has been immensely interesting for me as I watched the shaky cloud market mature. The change in people’s state of mind was rapid. The discussion advanced quickly from “the cloud will not prosper” to “Can we trust its security?”, and on to the current mood – “the cloud is here to stay”. […]
Defining Federated Cloud Ecosystems
Recently, a friend of mine came up to me and asked “Can you succinctly define Federated Cloud Ecosystems?”. That lead to an instantaneous brainstorming between three of us and we came up with a few characteristics that defines Federated Cloud Ecosystems like NIST did for cloud computing. I tweaked the gist from our discussions to […]
Can SpotCloud Gain Traction?
Enomaly Inc., the private cloud player based in Canada, today announced a new clearinghouse cum marketplace for trading excess cloud capacity. It is called SpotCloud and the idea is to create a central platform from where excess cloud capacity can be sold and bought based on location, cost and quality. SpotCloud acts as an intermediary […]
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 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 […]
