The Future of OpenStack’s EC2 APIs
Recently, some more talk was had around the future of the EC2 APIs, beginning with some comments on the openstack-operators mailing list, followed by threads on the dev and foundation mailing list. This ultimately resulted in a suggested commit to officially “deprecate” the EC2 APIs from Nova. This commit was rejected, but make sure you […]
Google is Amazon’s Only Real Competition
Recently, Barb Darrow wrote a great note to Google Compute Platform, suggesting “8 things it could do to freak Amazon out.” As long term readers know, I predicted Google’s entry into the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market long before anyone else. Cloudscaling is also well known for having created the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs for […]
Of little clouds and big clouds, local clouds and global clouds
Image: NASA Amazon’s globe-encircling cloud infrastructure is compelling to many. From Virginia to California, from Ireland to Singapore, and from Japan to Brazil; wherever you find yourself there’s a local instance of the same familiar set of services. And, in all likelihood, Australia will soon be added to the list. For those primarily interested in just serving […]
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This is a review post that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. As many of you long time readers know, I’ve been ‘in […]
Yawn, Joyent Announces Windows And Linux Virtual Machines On Cloud
Joyent (See previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based infrastructure cloud service provider, today announced the availability of Windows and Linux virtual machines in their cloud. They are targeting the enterprise customers who want to move their existing apps to VMs on the cloud. The new Windows and Linux solutions are available at all of […]
CloudKick Broadens its Infrastructure Management Base
Cloud management company CloudKick, a Y Combinator startup, is launching its commercial product and announcing they now support the Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, Linode, GoGrid, Slicehost, RimuHosting, and VPS.NET. The CloudKick offering enables users to control cloud infrastructure from multiple different vendors, all from one dashboard which allows both monitoring and management of an infrastructure […]
