What’s in a name in open source?
What does community mean to you?
Community is an overloaded word, it can mean anything. Community can mean just people who use your product. Or maybe it’s those who build your product, or maybe it’s the business partners who are using it. Or maybe it’s…
Keys to turn your open source project into a business
Broadly speaking, there are two types of open source software. The free software, which has a reciprocity requirement in it. Open source software which doesn’t.
Docker Red Hat and Containerization Wreck Virtualization
Conversation has popped up around a few tweets Alex Williams regarding virtualization at the Red Hat Summit. One of the starts to the conversation. How Project Atomic fits with Docker, geard, etc. http://t.co/qjFFGR2nI8— Alex Williams (@alexwilliams) April 15, 2014 Paraphrased the discussion has been shaped around asking, “Why is OS-level virtualization via containers (namely Docker) become such a massive hot topic?” […]
Architectural PaaS Cracks or Crack PaaS
Over the last couple years there have been two prominent open source PaaS Solutions come onto the market. Cloud Foundry & OpenShift. There’s been a lot of talk about these plays and the talk has slowly but steadily turned into traction. Large enterprises are picking these up and giving their developers and operations staff a …
I’d be Crazy to Kick @Krishnan Out
My long-time friend, CloudAve author and co-editor Krishnan could not have picked a worse week to announce his turning RED: his news quickly got overshadowed by a deluge of even Bigger and REDder news from REDwood Shores: Oracle with Microsoft, Oracle with Salesforce.com, Oracle with NestSuite .. whose next? 🙂 Anyway, the signs of […]
From Red Shoes To Red Hat
I have been advocating cloud and services based architecture for several years. I come to cloud evangelism and analyst role with some ops background. The first thing I learned about cloud is that we cannot take anything for granted. Before I came into IT, I was a Physicist by training and was doing research in […]
Ravello and the Developer’s Application Hypervisor Attract $26M in Funding
While in Israel last week, I took the opportunity to meet with Ravello, a company just coming out of stealth that aims to ease the process of development and deployment of enterprise applications. Founded by the creators of open source hypervisor KVM, Ravello aims to enable the replication of existing applications, with no changes, such […]
VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future
News recently that VMware, fresh from spinning out most of its developer focused non-virtualization assets in the Pivotal Initiative, has put a huge $30M finding into Puppet Labs. As part of the deal, VMware and Puppet will team up to produce a new IT management solution for VMware customers to use that leverages the automation […]
OSCON 2012 => Monday Ignited, Tuesday OpenShift Session ++
OSCON 2012 Opening Doors Today kicked off with a monster Reggie Biscuit from Pine State Biscuits. If you live in Portland or are visiting just for the conference and like soul food of the tastiest nature, check it out. My first day ended up not as planned. Instead of attending sessions I ended up meeting […]
Ok, Let’s Get Some Definitions & Operational Models Straight Here! PaaS is NOT…
I just got signed up for Cloud Connect Chicago and started checking out some of the talks. One talk jumped out, being that it is about PaaS Technology. After reading it though I immediately felt the need to straighten out some things that looked misleading. Maybe the presenter (JP Morgenthal) will lay these things out […]
Is Open Compute Ready for Prime Time?
I just returned from the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in NYC. It was an eye opening experience. I thought I would share my take aways plus talk about what I perceive as a core issue: can the Open Compute Project (OCP) grow beyond Facebook? By that, I mean there is a clear challenge right […]
Life On The Open Waves
For those of you who are either generally interested or perhaps following from afar, it has certainly been difficult to miss the numerous goings-on within the OpenStack community over this last couple of weeks. In what could yet turn out to be the biggest soap opera to appear out of Texas since “Dallas”, there is certainly no shortage of drama – the […]
