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 - 116 views - 11/25/09 by vambenepe in News
In an earlier post,
I argued for standardization of some basic REST-inspired mechanisms for
the narrow goal of supporting control interfaces for different...
0 replies - 1169 views - 09/18/09 by vambenepe in News
What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data center and in Clouds)?
0 replies - 756 views - 07/28/09 by vambenepe in News
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
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
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 - 1828 views - 02/19/09 by vambenepe in News
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 - 3273 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News
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
