Manageability

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 480 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud...

0 replies - 877 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API project) to abstract and access application-level...

0 replies - 689 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1238 views - 07/20/09 by 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 - 1726 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1126 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements

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 - 438 views - 03/08/09 by vambenepe in News

WS Resource Access at W3C: the good, the bad and the ugly

As far as I know, the W3C is still reviewing the proposal that was made to them to create a new working group to standardize WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer,...

0 replies - 1901 views - 07/12/08 by vambenepe in News