
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 - 2956 views - 11/25/09 by William Vambenepe in News

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 - 3652 views - 10/15/09 by William Vambenepe in News

I don’t know anyone in Silicon Valley who can code and doesn’t
fantasize about writing an accidental killer app. One that gets
designed during a long...
0 replies - 2255 views - 10/05/09 by William Vambenepe in News

I am late to the party for commenting on the upstream and
downstream acquisitions involving SpringSource. I was away on
vacations, but Rod Johnson...
0 replies - 2372 views - 08/27/09 by William Vambenepe in News

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 - 2319 views - 07/28/09 by William 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...
1 replies - 3517 views - 07/20/09 by William 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 - 5581 views - 04/28/09 by William 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 - 8128 views - 07/22/08 by William Vambenepe in News