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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 - 2670 views - 12/10/09 by William Vambenepe in News

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

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

0 replies - 3829 views - 11/11/09 by William 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 - 3654 views - 10/15/09 by William 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 - 2445 views - 09/28/09 by William 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...

1 replies - 3517 views - 07/20/09 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 - 5585 views - 04/28/09 by William Vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 Version 10.2.0.5 of OCAMM (Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler) was recently released. This is the ex QuickVision product from the...

0 replies - 3103 views - 04/16/09 by William 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 - 2321 views - 03/08/09 by William 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,...

0 replies - 5048 views - 07/12/08 by William Vambenepe in News