Eucalyptus Now Supports Windows Virtual Machines
Eucalyptus Systems, the open source academic project now shaking the private cloud market, has taken another step to go deep in the enterprise cloud market (See Cloud Ave’s previous coverage of Eucalyptus here). Last year, I wrote a post about the release of Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition and I pointed out how it makes interoperability between […]
Microsoft’s Private Cloud Is #NotACloud?
Image by ahockley via Flickr While talking about Private Clouds on Twitter, Sam Johnston (who is currently with Google and involved in OCCI , Cloud Audit, etc.) used to refer to them as #notacloud. His argument is that the so called Private Clouds are nothing but virtualization with management interface slapped around it. Even though […]
Agility, black swans and the Cloud
Alright, I admit it! This whole public-private-hybrid cloud debate the clouderati love to go back and forth about just — *yawn* — never really — *yawn* — did much for me. Only you crazy engineering types could get so worked up over the purity of a definition. Same thing for the whole “capex/opex” cloud benefit […]
CloudCamp Sydney – The Same Old Memes
Two weeks ago the Australasian CloudCamp tour hit Sydney for an event at the National Innovation Centre of the Australian Technology Park. A crowd of around 90 people turned up for some lively discussions – as always there were some common themes – the legal and jurisdictional aspects of Cloud Computing and the public/private cloud […]
StrataScale Unveils New Cloud and Hybrid Solutions
Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Automated Managed Hosting, and Hybrid Hosting Services to be Available 24/7 through Easy-to-use Storefront The launches are coming thick and fast at Cloud Connect here in Santa Clara. StrataScale is right now announcing the addition of three new cloud offerings. In addition to its physical Automated Managed Hosting service, StrataScale has […]
Apprenda’s In the Money – $5 Million in Funding
I’ve written before about Apprenda, a company I’ve followed since I started blogging. Their company blog (sadly somewhat silent of late) was one of the early places for vendor thought-leadership around PaaS in particular. I was stoked to hear from CEO and co-founder Sinclair Schuller the other day that Apprenda had just secured a $5 […]
Public vs Private Cloud Brouhaha: My Take
Image via Wikipedia The blogosphere and Twitterverse is full of debates about whether private clouds are actually clouds or not. I have had my own share of debates on the Twitter and I thought I will bring it over to Cloud Ave for further enlightenment. For a change, I am going to follow the Redmonk […]
What’s in a Cloud (or Not)
I read a lot of articles on technology and it always amazes me the degree of heated debate that goes on in the blogosphere, social media and elsewhere over simple definitions. What caught my attention today was the number of posts and comments on Twitter about what was or was not Cloud. So the question […]
Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?
Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming up to Cloud technologies. No, they are not queuing outside the Amazon headquarters waiting to order public cloud infrastructure, like the Amazon’s EC2 offerings, yet. But, the idea of private clouds and the advantages of tapping the public clouds for non mission critical operations like testing are slowly making […]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it […]
Riffing on the SaaS for the Government Meme
Sinclair Schuller over at Apprenda is someone I’ve been following now for a number of years. He’s obviously a vendor, so sometimes riffs off things with his own vendor-centric perspective, but that said he’s keen to push the thinking on SaaS generally, regardless of whether there is a “fit” for Apprenda in what he’s discussing. […]
