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The Truth About Lock In

The Truth About Lock In

By Guest Authors on February 13, 2013

Last week I was invited to speak at a Microsoft conference in Redmond about building cloud applications for portability across clouds and infrastructure. In my presentation, I approached the issue of application portability from the enterprise perspective. This means that developers generally are not choosing servers, clouds or other infrastructure components. Developers focus on building […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud applications, Enterprise, paas, vendor lock-in

On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability

On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability

By Ben Kepes on November 20, 2012

Recently VMware announced Core, a baseline test that assesses how compatible an application is to the Cloud Foundry open source release. In order to derive this compatibility rating, Core is based on a base set of components – specific versions of runtimes and components that are currently within the Core stable. Krish Subramanian has written […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged ActiveState, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, platform services, rightscale, vcloud, vendor lock-in, vmware | 1 Response

Moving to the Cloud – External Business Considerations

Moving to the Cloud – External Business Considerations

By Ben Kepes on July 9, 2012

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Application programming interface, cloud computing, Customer, e-commerce, Sunk costs, vendor lock-in | 3 Responses

Cloud Migration – The Pain And The Opportunity

Cloud Migration – The Pain And The Opportunity

By Ben Kepes on May 29, 2012

Running a number of businesses, some using the cloud and some not, I’ve seen firsthand the reality of what it takes to move systems from traditional on-premise delivery to the cloud. Whether it’s because of push-back from users, IT department concerns, functional gaps or differences in the way applications are written, the migration is hard. […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Australasia, cisco, cloud computing, e-commerce, ProQuest, survey, vendor lock-in | 3 Responses

TOSCA may prove a prescient name for new cloud standards effort

TOSCA may prove a prescient name for new cloud standards effort

By Paul Miller on January 25, 2012

Image via Wikipedia Last week, open standards body OASIS unveiled yet another shiny new standards effort. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee hopes to make it “easier to deploy cloud applications without vendor lock-in,” and to support moving from one cloud to another. The usual suspects — the likes of IBM, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged Cisco Systems, cloud computing, Enterprise Computing, google, iaas, IBM, Open standard, paas, saas, TOSCA, vendor lock-in

Google Wants More Of Your Data On Their Cloud But .....

Google Wants More Of Your Data On Their Cloud But …..

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 20, 2011

Google today announced that it is opening up their cloud infrastructure to let you store and process your geospatial data. They announced a new web based offering called Google Earth Builder, available in the later part of this year, which will let organizations upload their geospatial data to Google Cloud and let the employees view […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged big data, cloud computing, data, data gravity, data liberation front, data migration costs, data portability, Enterprise, geospatial, geospatial data, google, google cloud, google earth, google earth builder, google maps, insights, vendor lock-in, vendor lockin

AWS Planning To Add VM Export?

AWS Planning To Add VM Export?

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 23, 2010

Little more than a week back, Amazon Web Services announced a new tool called VM Import, which can be used to import virtual machines into Amazon EC2. It was a pretty good tool which will help organization move their VMware based workloads to Amazon cloud. VM Import lets you bring existing VMware images (VMDK files) […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, ec2, eucalyptus, vendor lock-in, vm export, vm import, vm mobility, vm portability, vmware | 1 Response

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