Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus
Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wants you to believe that it […]
Nimbula Raises 15 Million Series B Round To Shore Up Private Cloud Offering
Nimbula, the company founded by two engineers who were part of the original Amazon EC2 team, today announced that they have raised 15 Million in Series B round of financing. This round was mainly lead by Accel partners. Nimbula was launched in last Structure conference and offers private cloud with Amazon like scalability. This round […]
Why Windows Azure Is Not Available For On-Premise Deployments?
When Microsoft announced Windows Azure appliance few days back at PDC10, I was critical of their plans to sell the technology bundled with hardware from their partners. What I expected from Microsoft was the availability of Azure stack to be used with the existing infrastructure, something like what one can do with Eucalyptus, for example. […]
After Dilly-Dallying For A While, Microsoft Jumps Into Private Cloud Business
After sending confusing signals for some time, Microsoft firmly jumps into Private Cloud game with their “Azure Appliance” announcement today at their Worldwide Partner Conference at Washington DC today. In June this year, I quoted an interview given by Bob Muglia to CNET and ranted that Microsoft’s use of the term cloud for a combination […]
Structure 2010: Public-Private Cloud Flareups
Last week GigaOm organized the third edition of their famous Structure conference. This is one of my favorite conferences because of their focus on Infrastructure topics. Unfortunately, I had to drop out in the last moment as I went down due to a viral attack. Still I managed to catch up with the sessions live […]
Eucalyptus Systems Changes CEO – What’s Next?
Image via Wikipedia On Friday, Eucalyptus Systems, the open source software powering the private clouds in the enterprises, announced that the former CEO of MySQL AB, Mårten Mickos, has taken over as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems replacing Woody Rollins who will now be their CFO. This has taken the entire industry by surprise. I am […]
Video: Private Cloud 101, A Rackspace Video
From time to time we link videos from vendors that offers insight into their thinking on various cloud computing related topics. Here is a video from Rackspace on Private Clouds.
Thinking About Security Is Old School? – A Dangerous Trend
Recently, I was listening to a podcast in which analysts were debating about public and private clouds. During the course of the discussions, one of the participants, a SaaS vendor, made a comment that disturbed me a bit. I think it is important that I address this issue here at Cloud Ave. It is my […]
IBM Tells Reluctant Enterprises "Just Do It"
When you talk to Enterprise folks or to evangelists from companies currently supporting the enterprise IT, they will be glad to point out to reasons why cloud computing is not a fit in their enterprises. Their usual argument will end like “we may put our test and dev environment on the clouds but not the […]
Demand Transparency
Last week saw the emergence of some news that got the usual critics of cloud computing ecstatic about another chance to call bluff on anything cloud. The first one was an extended outage of the bitbucket service hosted on Amazon EC2 and the other one is the lost data on T-Mobile sidekick. We could make […]
Cloud Security Needs A Rethink But The Evolution Will Be Slow
Image via Wikipedia Recently, Andreas M. Antonopoulos wrote an informative piece on Computer World about Cloud Security. In his post, he clearly outlines the mental shift needed on Cloud Security so that auditors and regulators are convinced about the issues of security and compliance. The crucial takeaway from his post is the following we are rapidly moving […]
Eucalyptus Shakes Up Cloud Interoperability Scene
Eucalyptus Systems, the open source cloud computing project that graduated from the hallways of academia to industry few months back, is back in news again (Cloud Ave’s previous coverage of Eucalyptus is here and here. You can also listen to Paul Miller’s podcast here.). This time, they have made an announcement and its repercussions can […]
Debunking A Myth: Are Private Clouds Exclusively Single Tenant?
In my post about the Public Vs Private Cloud debate, I pointed out to how the promoters of “only public clouds” idea use the financial component as a requirement in the very definition of cloud computing. In their quest to drive home their point about the economics behind the public clouds, these pundits, either knowingly or unknowingly, promote a […]
Developers Want Clouds But For Now Private Clouds
According to Charles Babcock of Information Post, the Cloud Computing Survey from Evans Data offers some pretty interesting insights into the mood inside the developer community about Cloud Computing. I thought I will highlight some of the important takeaways from the survey. 48.9% of the 500 people surveyed expect to do some cloud application within […]
SaaS Vendors Target Enterprises Using Private Clouds
In spite of the cost advantages offered by SaaS, enterprise customers are still reluctant to embrace this technology. Security and privacy are touted as biggest reasons for such a reluctance. Enterprises gets edgy as soon as we talk about stuff outside of their firewall. This lack of trust also shows up in the infrastructure space […]
