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Misconceptions About Federated Clouds

Misconceptions About Federated Clouds

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 13, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud federation, federated clouds, federation, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights, open source, opensource, proprietary | 1 Response

Nope, Ben Is Wrong About What I Said And Open Source

Nope, Ben Is Wrong About What I Said And Open Source

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 7, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms, Trends & Concepts | Tagged ben kepes, briefs, cloudave, federated clouds, open source, opensource, openstack | 4 Responses

Service Providers And PaaS

Service Providers And PaaS

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 2, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged federated clouds, federated paas, insights, paas, paasfuture, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, service providers | 1 Response

Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers - An Analysis

Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 11, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged apprenda, azure, federated cloud ecosystems, federated clouds, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, platform, platform services, service providers

Virtustream Adds More Funding With A Goal Towards Federation

Virtustream Adds More Funding With A Goal Towards Federation

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 9, 2012

  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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged enomaly, federated clouds, funding, funding round, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, spotcloud, virtustream

Alcatel Jumps In With Network Services On The Cloud

Alcatel Jumps In With Network Services On The Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 21, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged alcatel-lucent, cloud computing, federated clouds, iaas, insights, network, network services, networking | 3 Responses

ScaleXtreme Ramps Up Server Management For The Federated Cloud Era

ScaleXtreme Ramps Up Server Management For The Federated Cloud Era

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 17, 2011

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, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud management, cloud monitoring, federated clouds, insights, management, scalextreme, server management, system admin | 2 Responses

Equinix Announces Marketplace: Will It Help Federated Cloud Ecosystems?

Equinix Announces Marketplace: Will It Help Federated Cloud Ecosystems?

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 24, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, Computenext, equinix, exchanges, federated cloud ecosystems, federated clouds, federation, insights, marketplace, scaleup, scaleup technologies, spotcloud

Defining Federated Cloud Ecosystems

Defining Federated Cloud Ecosystems

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 6, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud brokers, cloud computing, cloud platform, cloud platforms, CloudComputing, definition, federated cloud ecosystems, federated clouds, federation, iaas, insights, openstack, openstack conference | 2 Responses

Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis

Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 12, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged abiquo, acquisition, azure, azure appliance, citrix, cloud platform, cloud.com, cloupia, federated clouds, iaas, insights, m&a, microsoft, nimbula, open source, opensource, openstack, System center 5, vcloud director, vmops, vmware | 13 Responses

Some Lessons From AWS Outage

Some Lessons From AWS Outage

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 22, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, aws outage, cloud computing, disaster recovery, DR, federated clouds, iaas, insights, outage | 13 Responses

Dropbox Shows Why We Can't Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined

Dropbox Shows Why We Can’t Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 21, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged data privacy, data security, dropbox, federated clouds, government subpoena, governments, insights | 2 Responses

Right Scale And Zend Announce Portable PHP PaaS

Right Scale And Zend Announce Portable PHP PaaS

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 19, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged briefs, enterprises, federated clouds, federated paas, open paas, paas, rightscale, zend

Open Source, Adoption And Whatever

Open Source, Adoption And Whatever

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 14, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged adoption, cloud computing, federated clouds, insights, open source, opensource, opensource adoption

VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry - An Analysis

VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 12, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, cloud foundry, Cloudfoundry, engine yard, federated clouds, federation, force.com, google app engine, insights, java, node.js, open source, opensource, paas, paasfuture, rails, salesforce.com, springsource, vmware | 16 Responses

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