Management integration

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

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

0 replies - 455 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 - 855 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 - 671 views - 09/28/09 by 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)?

0 replies - 752 views - 07/28/09 by vambenepe in News

A small step for SCA, a giant leap for BSM

In a very short post, Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components. Here is...

0 replies - 709 views - 07/27/09 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 - 1230 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 - 1713 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1109 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements

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 - 1006 views - 03/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Is notification wrapping getting a bum rap?

Looks like the question of whether to wrap SOAP-based notifications is back. Like Gil I prefer to stay away from wrapping notifications but my reasons are...

1 replies - 1808 views - 02/19/09 by vambenepe in News

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 3256 views - 07/22/08 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 - 1894 views - 07/12/08 by vambenepe in News