Blog Archives

The Future of the Cloud

September 21, 2012

Business

cloud computing, IBM, opensource, OSCON, Platform as a service, Portland

While in Portland for OSCON a few months ago, I was invited to take part in an open discussion with a couple of colleagues, Krishnan Subramanian and Alex Williams. The idea of the session was to have a free…

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OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

August 7, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, hewlett packard, Krishnan Subramanian, Morphlabs, OpenStack, OSCON, rackspace, techcrunch

The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product…

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Cloud – It’s About Flexibility

August 3, 2012

Business

cloud computing, gmail, OSCON, Quality policy, techcrunch

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…

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AppFog Goes GA, Helps Developers Forget About Economics

July 25, 2012

Business

AppFog, Carlson, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, OpenStack, OSCON, platform services

AppFog is today announcing it is ready for general availability and rolling out some changes along side the release. I spent some time talking with AppFog founder Lucas Carlson last week at OSCON and then again this week by…

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Blog Archives

The Future of the Cloud

OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

Cloud – It’s About Flexibility

AppFog Goes GA, Helps Developers Forget About Economics