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Rumors Surface That HP Is Acquiring Box

March 5, 2014

Business

Aaron Levie, autonomy, hewlett packard, Lars Dalgaard, Leo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, OpenStack, SuccessFactors

Note – Despite contacting both HP and Box, neither company would comment on acquisition rumors. Last night I wrote about the rumor circulating on anonymous application Secret that cloud file sharing vendor Box had cancelled its planned (but never…

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GreenQloud Goes Hybrid – QStack Built On Top Of CloudStack

February 25, 2014

Business

cloud computing, CloudStack, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Open source, OpenStack, Scality

I’m a big fan of Icelandic cloud vendor GreenQloud (more on them here) for a number of reasons – firstly they’ve managed to differentiate what they do without resorting to post-Snowden fear mongering. In GreenQloud’s case it’s all about…

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Workload Portability – Running Race Car Simulations Wherever

October 10, 2013

Business

Chevrolet, cloud computing, Corvette, IndyCar, Miller, OpenStack, Pratt, Pratt & Miller

The concept of workload portability is often raised by vendors in very conceptual ways – the idea of being able to move workloads is great, but reality of both practical and use-case issues is a little more difficult. Given…

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The Great Cloud API Debate and VMware’s Hybrid Cloud – Inside Baseball, Unicorns and Rainbows

September 12, 2013

Business

AWS, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Magic Quadrant, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, Paul Miller, VMware

I spent a couple of days this week at CloudBeat, an event that Paul Miller and I have, for the past three years, consulted to on content. The highlights of the show for me where the panel I moderated…

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Democratizing Development – Where PaaS Should Go

September 9, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, cloud computing, EngineYard, OpenStack, Platform as a service, Services, Visual Basic

A few months ago I wrote a post that looked at application development, and the existing tools that help bring the ability to develop software to an entire audience that formerly didn’t have the ability. Over the past five or…

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Cloud Migration Vendors – The End of the Golden Weather

August 19, 2013

Business

cloud computing, CloudSwitch, CloudVelocity, Disaster recovery, OpenStack, Ravello, RightScale, Software as a Service

Over the past couple of years there have been a large number of startups gain attention and funding by promising the holiest of grails – effortless migration of workloads between cloud vendors. This promise, the basis of the hallowed…

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Is Cloud Foundry the Next OpenStack?

August 14, 2013

Business

ActiveState, CenturyLink, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service, VMware

Disclosure – I am an adviser to ActiveState, creator of the Stackato Cloud Foundry-based PaaS. I’ve also consulted to a number of companies mentioned in this article. Full details on my disclosure page. Ever since Pivotal was created with IP from…

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IBM and Cloud Foundry – Because War Makes the Strangest Bedfellows

July 29, 2013

Business

Charles Dudley Warner, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, EMC Corporation, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service

Charles Dudley Warner is credited with making the well-known comment that war makes the strangest bedfellows and last week, in an act that would have impressed both him and The Art of War author Sun Tzu, IBM and Pivotal…

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On OpenStack and the AWS API – Internal Divisions Surface

July 24, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, Cloudscaling, google, OpenStack, rackspace, Simon Wardley

It’s OSCON week, and three years since OpenStack was officially launched – in that time it’s built a vibrant ecosystem, real world customers and more debate than anyone would have ever imagined. There are some notable critics, none so…

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CloudMunch – DevOps for OpenStack

July 23, 2013

Business

chef, cloud, cloud computing, DevOps, google, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service

It’s OSCON week so it’s no surprise that a number of interesting open source-related announcements are happening this week. Yesterday it was Canonical announcing that it was crowdfunding the development of a mobile phone (yes, many of us are…

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