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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

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

Radiant Logic And ForgeRock Partner To Offer Powerful Identity Solution

Radiant Logic And ForgeRock Partner To Offer Powerful Identity Solution

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 21, 2011

Radiant Logic, the company offering identity and context virtualization solutions, partnered with ForgeRock, open source IAM player, offering a powerful SSO and federation solution with fine grained authorization. This is targeted at the enterprises wanting to take advantage of cloud based solutions while also wanting much fine grained controls over their users. Essentially, this combines […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged briefs, federated identity, federation, forgerock, radiantlogic, sso, web applications

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

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

SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind Of An Impact Will It Have?

SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind Of An Impact Will It Have?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 14, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Clearinghouse, cloud marketplace, enomaly, federated clouds, federation, insights, regional clouds, Spot markets, spotcloud | 2 Responses

ScaleUp Enables A Federated Cloud Ecosystem

ScaleUp Enables A Federated Cloud Ecosystem

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 21, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged applogic, cloud marketplace, federated clouds, federation, Germany, insights, open federated clouds, openstack, regional clouds, scaleup technologies | 7 Responses

WebFinger – Paradigm Changing?

WebFinger – Paradigm Changing?

By Ben Kepes on December 22, 2009

I wrote a post recently about what billFLO is doing for small, Mom and Pop owner of Do it Best stores. This, along with some pretty exciting discussions I’d had both as part of The Small Business Web and privately with some other people, got me thinking about the reality on the ground for SMBs. […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged authentication, federation, oauth, the small business web, webfinger

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