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REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 3: wrap-up)

[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful...

0 replies - 2673 views - 12/10/09 by William Vambenepe in News

Review of Fujitsu’s IaaS Cloud API submission to DMTF

Things are heating up in the DMTF Cloud incubator. Back in September, VMWare submitted its vCloud API (or rather a “reader’s digest” version of it) to...

0 replies - 2960 views - 11/25/09 by William Vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 2: configuration management)

What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data center and in Clouds)? Part 1 of the “REST in practice for IT and Cloud...

0 replies - 2320 views - 07/28/09 by William Vambenepe in News

A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution

Before rushing to standardize “Cloud APIs”, let’s take a look back at the previous attempt to tackle the same problem, which is one of IT management...

0 replies - 5587 views - 04/28/09 by William Vambenepe in News

Code Reports Rake Task

0 replies - 2477 views - 03/30/09 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

Exploring IT management in a changing IT world

The tagline for this blog is “IT management in a changing IT world”. Of course nobody but their authors care about blog taglines. Still, in the unlikely...

0 replies - 2214 views - 03/13/09 by William Vambenepe in News

WS-Discovery and WS-DeviceProfile public review

We are in the middle of the public review period for the three specifications coming out of the “Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile...

0 replies - 2322 views - 03/08/09 by William Vambenepe in News