ComputeNext: Google For Compute Resources
I recently had a conversation with a stealth cloud startup called ComputeNext which got me fired up because they are doing something that I have been advocating here in this space, emergence of an open federated cloud ecosystem. Well, they are not building a federated ecosystem per se but they have gone one step further […]
SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind Of An Impact Will It Have?
SpotCloud, a compute resources clearing house run by IaaS software provider Enomaly, today announced its public launch. So far SpotCloud was available in private beta with only a select few allowed to test it while Enomaly was busy fine tuning the platform for the public launch. With the public availability of SpotCloud, anyone with excess […]
Why Verizon’s Acquisition Of Terremark Is Not Exciting
Yesterday, Verizon announced that they are acquiring the cloud provider Terremark for $1.4 Billion According to Datacenter Knowledge, Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal that will accelerate the telecom provider’s push into cloud computing. Verizon will pay $19.00 in cash for each share of Terremark, about […]
Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond
Abstract As we enter 2011, the expectations surrounding the growth of cloud based services are very high. In spite of the unwarranted hype and FUD surrounding the cloud based services in 2008 and 2009, the past year saw some level of maturity in both the cloud services itself and, also, in the discussions surrounding cloud […]
ScaleUp Enables A Federated Cloud Ecosystem
Image via CrunchBase Scaleup Technologies (see previous CloudAve coverage), the Germany based Cloud infrastructure provider, is planning to announce support for federation across multiple cloud providers from within their Cloud management platform. This is particularly exciting to me because I have been advocating open federated cloud ecosystem in this blog for a long time and […]
Looking Back 2010: OpenStack Offers Promise
Looking Back 2010 is a series of posts I am planning for this week in which I will highlight significant cloud related events that happened in this year. Please keep in mind that these are my personal opinions based on my industry observations this year. My first pick is OpenStack project (see previous CloudAve coverage) […]
OpenStack Released Today
OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud computing stack supported by Rackspace, NASA and many other companies, unwrapped their first version, codenamed Austin release, today. This marks a crucial milestone of a project that has the potential to change the cloud computing market upside down. Ever since they announced the project during OSCON […]
India’s First Full Fledged Cloud Infrastructure Offering
Tata Communications, India’s leading service provider, announced an expansion of their cloud offerings, making it the first comprehensive India based cloud solution available for customers. Today, they announced the addition of Instacompute and Instaoffice to their list of offerings. The launch marks the company’s expansion in the cloud space to deliver self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application […]
OSCON Week: Openstack.org, A Game Changer?
Yesterday, we saw the announcement by Rackspace that they have joined hands with NASA and 25 other companies to create Openstack.org, an open source cloud community. Rackspace also announced that they are open sourcing their entire cloud stack and give it to the project. As expected, it has created both positive and negative reactions from […]
VMOps Reboots As Cloud.com
Image via CrunchBase Regular readers of CloudAve know that I am a sucker of federated clouds and I have been pushing the idea of regional clouds hard. In this context, I have been talking about enablers like VMOps and regional cloud providers like Reliacloud and Scaleup Technologies . Today, VMOps announced that they are rebranding as […]
Cloud Computing Outside the US
Information Week has an article that talks about the difference between the US and European Cloud Computing markets. The article points out to some numbers given by The 451 Group’s William Fellows The 451 Group’s William Fellows in a “Cloud Outlook 2010” Webcast, says that 57% of spending on cloud computing is done in the […]
The Fate Of Small Web Hosts
Image via Wikipedia Recently, there was a discussion on Twitter about the fate of small webhosts. I thought I will expand my thoughts here in this post. Traditional web hosting ecosystems are huge spanning big hosts offering enterprise level managed hosting to a college kid having a reseller account to sell hosting space to […]
ScaleUp Technologies, Powering The Cloud For German Users
For a long time, I am debunking the idea that the cloud infrastructure market will consolidate and we will end up with a handful of monopoly players. In my opinion this is short sighted idea and it is due to the lack of understanding of the diverse needs of users around the world. One way […]
Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – Not So Fast
This is the second post on the topic I have been emphasizing on many different forums. My earlier post, Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea, laid out philosophical and economic reasonings against the idea of the emergence of handful of infrastructure providers. This idea is a pet theme for many cloud pundits. […]
Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea
Some commentators in the field of Cloud Computing like to promote the idea that there will be a single (or a handful) monopoly player(s) in the Cloud infrastructure market. The biggest reason quoted to justify this claim is the high cost of building and maintaining the datacenters. The supporters of this school of thought argue that not many companies can […]
