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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

Open Philosophy: Innovating Around Roadblocks

Open Philosophy: Innovating Around Roadblocks

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 8, 2010

I have been advocating mobile apps over native apps in this space. In my opinion, mobile apps based on open standards help us overcome the restrictions thrown on our way with proprietary vendors wanting to influence control over their customers. Even though these restrictions are anti-competitive and, in some cases, goes against the very essence of […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged Apple, iphone, mobile web apps, open architecture, open formats, open protocols, open source, open standards, proprietary

Limitations of Proprietary Licensing in the Cloud Marketplace

Limitations of Proprietary Licensing in the Cloud Marketplace

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 6, 2008

Image via CrunchBase I am an unabashed advocate of Opensource philosophy. I personally believe that Opensource spurs innovation and offers better security. However, I don’t consider proprietary nature of software and standards as an outright evil. In my opinion, Opensource and Proprietary approaches are two different approaches to solving the same problem. Since I don’t […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged aws, cloud computing, ec2, license, microsoft, opensource, proprietary | 1 Response

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