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If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

September 25, 2012

Business

appsecute, Business, cloudcomputing, Future, Infrastructure, management, Organization, PaaS, platform services, Solution

The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a coherent thought leadership piece on the future of PaaS and…
Appcara Delivers Cloud Infra and App Management for AWS Based Clouds

August 21, 2012

Business

amazon web services, Appcara, BMC, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Derek Collison, enStratus, RightScale

Appcara is an unfortunately named (considering the fact that Cloud Foundry creator, and Clouderati pin up boy Derek Collison’s new gig is called Apcera) company in the business of providing automation for cloud deployments. They use a modeling based…
On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

August 8, 2012

Business

amazon web services, AWS, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enStratus, George Reese, NetworkWorld

Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages.…
Project Sputnik–A Beachhead to Dell’s Brave new World

August 2, 2012

Business

Datameer, Dell, GitHub, Open source, OpenStack, Pentaho, Project Sputnik, Ubuntu

At OSCON Dell announced the inclusion of Project Sputnik into its generally available product line. For those not in the loop, Project Sputnik is a developer focused Ubuntu based laptop, the unit is based on the beautiful Dell XPS13…
Appsecute Launches–PaaS marketplace and Management Platform

July 11, 2012

Business

amazon web services, AppFog, appsecute, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Mark Cox, Platform as a service, Single sign-on

A few months ago I was at an event in the US and received a tweet introducing me to some guys back in New Zealand who were apparently building something on top of Cloud Foundry. Now New Zealand isn’t…
The Future Ain’t Homogenized–Please Stop the FUD Vendors

July 3, 2012

Business

amazon web services, Chris Hoff, cloud computing, enStratus, Heroku, McCarthyism, OpenStack, PistonCloud

In recent weeks we’ve had perfect examples of people preaching perspectives from both ends of the cloud dogma spectrum. First up comes JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist at Salesforce who proclaimed that the concept of private cloud was essentially flawed.…
VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

July 2, 2012

Business

amazon web services, BMC, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, Dell, DynamicOps, RightScale, VMware

News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally…
Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis

June 28, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, cloud computing, enStratus, google, google app engine, google compute engine, Google I/O, Representational State Transfer, RightScale

At GoogleIO today, Google announced the limited launch of its Infrastructure as a Service product, Google Compute Engine. This comes as no surprise, the move has been rumored for months and Google does undeniably have some of the largest…
Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

June 27, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, chef, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, Intel, OpenStack, Opscode

The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to…
The Big Opportunities in the Cloud

April 20, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, cloudcomputing, enStratus, Microsoft, OpenStack, VMware

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-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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