AWS, Eucalyptus And My Own Hallucinations On This
Yesterday blogs and Twitter were full of opinions about the AWS-Eucalyptus partnership. I even made joke on this discussion when fellow CloudAve blogger Christian Reilly asked for a quick take. @reillyusa First step to acquisition. Send me my $10 — Krish (@krishnan) March 22, 2012 The punditry was at the peak yesterday about the topic […]
OpenStack Vibes Around CloudConnect
CloudConnect 2012 at Santa Clara, the conference organized by UBM, has come to an end. This week, there were quite a few OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) related news and I thought I will do a single blog post talking about them. Some of them came during the event and some outside of it. This post […]
Banking Sector Gets More Comfortable With Cloud
The cloud naysayers get their highs by claiming that banking sector will never embrace cloud. But, to their dismay, banking sector was much more open to the idea of cloud computing than many expected. This trend is only continuing to improve as more and more financial institutions invest in cloud infrastructure. Even though I cannot […]
Rackspace Private Cloud: Repackaging Fanatical Support Around OpenStack
Yesterday Rackspace announced Rackspace Cloud Private Edition, a repackaging of their Cloud Builder services around the OpenStack product. If you want to hear a purely open source perspective on this move, I recommend you to read Christian Reilly’s article on the topic. However, I am going to approach the topic from the business strategy point […]
Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution
Last week at OSCON 2011, Dell unveiled Dell OpenStack Cloud, its OpenStack based solution to go against the likes of IBM targeting both the enterprise and service provider markets. While talking about Dell’s attempts against the unified computing efforts by IBM, Cisco, HP and Oracle, I highlighted how Dell is taking a more “open” approach […]
OSCON Week: Eucalyptus Systems
I was at OSCON 2011 for two days. Like last year, OpenStack was garnering the media attention this year too. I thought I should check out the other open source cloud platform (open core, to be precise), Eucalyptus Systems, and see how they are doing. I spoke with Brady Murray, Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus […]
Cloud.com Scores A Big Win With GoDaddy
GoDaddy, the domain registrar, yesterday unveiled their cloud plans with a goal to eat into the public cloud pie. They are calling their service Data Center On Demand and it is currently in limited release phase. It is generally expected to be available in July. Unlike Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy’s plans requires customers to have […]
Skytap Talks Hybrid To Go Deep Into The Enterprise Market
Skytap (see previous CloudAve coverage), Seattle based company focussed on cloud automation, today announced a move towards Hybrid clouds, clearly aiming to take advantage of the enterprise interest in hybrid clouds. They announced a set of security and usability features which will allow enterprise customers to create and deploy hybrid clouds very fast. As more […]
HP Joins The Hybrid Cloud Race
HP, who was a reluctant player in the cloud game for a long time, today announced some products and services aimed at enterprises who are looking forward to move to hybrid clouds this year. They are trying to position themselves as a cloud provider who can keep enterprises secure. Leaving aside all the marketing talk […]
Skype Downtime And The Cloud Fail
Skype went down this morning and, as expected, Techmeme and Twitter are already going crazy with the news about downtime. There were speculations about problems with their centralized infrastructure used to authenticate users (which was a cause of trouble in one of the past outages) and some were even talking about “The Cloud Fail”. Whether […]
Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud
On the sidelines of Dreamforce, I had a chance to talk to two people who have their hands dirty in the enterprise IT. During our conversation, one of them mentioned to me that he wouldn’t be surprised if an analyst firm comes out and says that all the enterprises are active in cloud computing in […]
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Eucalyptus Joins Hand With RedHat Targeting Private Cloud Market
Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage), the academic project turned commercial venture offering private cloud solutions for enterprises, today announced a partnership with RedHat (see previous CloudAve coverage), leading enterprise Linux vendor who is shifting their focus to cloud computing recently. This partnership suits both the companies and it can go a long way towards […]
Enterprise Cloud Computing And Wikileaks Saga
In my previous post, I argued about how public clouds will eventually dominate the enterprise IT scene though better economics. I also pointed out that it is not going to happen anytime sooner because of concerns about security and compliance. Many of the public cloud advocates dismiss such enterprise concerns immediately and some even want […]
Why Public Clouds Will Eventually Win The Game
Long term readers of this blog know my views on public vs private cloud debate. I believe that private clouds may dominate over public clouds among the enterprises in the short run but, in the long run, most of the workloads will move to the public clouds. The cloud economics will be a major driving […]
iPad In Enterprise: IT Folks Can Have One Too
Ever since iPad has been released by Apple, there are discussions on whether iPad is an enterprise material or not. However, we are seeing increased iPad adoption in many organizations including some big enterprise players. However, there is another trend slowly shaping up without much media fanfare. Slowly, there are tools available for IT folks […]
