Misconceptions About Federated Clouds
As I promote the idea of federated clouds (previous CloudAve coverage), there seems to be some misconceptions among readers and other bloggers. I thought I will use this post to clarify these misconceptions. For beginners, please check out this post on the definition of federated cloud ecosystems. Federated clouds is pushed as an alternative to […]
Nope, Ben Is Wrong About What I Said And Open Source
Today Ben Kepes of Diversity Ltd. made a post about OpenStack. Without going into the merits of his post, I will like to address a paragraph where he quotes me. At OSCON recently, I joined Alex Williams of TechCrunch and Krishnan Subramanian from Cloudave to discuss the future of the cloud. We spent quite some […]
Service Providers And PaaS
As I push the themes of federated clouds and paas as the future of cloud services hard, people always question me about how these two seemingly disparate themes reconcile and how can I tie up different, seemingly, loose ends in my model. I will one day dust off my laziness and write about the big […]
Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis
Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech community. Even though there were lot of talk about the VMware angle in the story and about Microsoft planning to push Azure as the cloud OS of […]
Virtustream Adds More Funding With A Goal Towards Federation
Virtustream, a cloud provider targeting enterprise and government customers, today announced Series B $15 Million funding taking the total venture capital investment to $75 Million. This round of funding is lead by Intel Capital along with Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners and TDF with the addition of a new investor, QuestMark Capital. The additional funding round […]
Alcatel Jumps In With Network Services On The Cloud
Alcatel-Lucent (previous CloudAve coverage), a leading vendor in mobile and networking space, last week announced Alcatel-Lucent Cloudband, set of network services offered through the cloud. Networking is a significant part of cloud infrastructure but it has attracted much less media attention than its counterparts, compute and storage. Part of the reason is somewhat of a […]
ScaleXtreme Ramps Up Server Management For The Federated Cloud Era
ScaleXtreme, Palo Alto based server management company with a focus on the cloud era, yesterday announced the availability Dynamic Server Assembly, an update to their existing free and premium products. This gives their users an ability to create highly structured servers across many different cloud providers. As we move towards a more federated cloud ecosystem, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis
Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage), the virtualization player who is gaining some decent traction recently, today announced the acquisition of Cloud.com (previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform player with considerable traction on the side of Telcos, Service providers and even enterprises. Initially, Citrix will push the Cloud.com product lines and Citrix branded versions will […]
Some Lessons From AWS Outage
Yesterday’s AWS outage has been buzzing around the tech blogosphere even after 24+ hours. As usual naysayers of cloud are up in the arms trying not to miss the golden opportunity to create FUD and competitors to Amazon are tapping into their misery to push their services. Well, people are tuned to accept this as […]
Dropbox Shows Why We Can’t Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined
For the past few weeks, Tech Media is buzzing with discussions on Dropbox (see previous CloudAve coverage) security. Dropbox from their modest beginnings have grown big with 25 Million users. Recently, a security engineer Derek Newton exposed a serious security issue with them where they store the machine hash in an unencrypted form in any machine […]
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 […]
Open Source, Adoption And Whatever
Regular readers of my blog know that I am an unabashed advocate of Open Source. However, in my conversations with the industry, I often come across an argument which I feel is somewhat misdirected. Even though the title of this blog post is a bit rhetorical, these arguments cannot be dismissed outright and needs some […]
VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart […]
