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Review of Fujitsu’s IaaS Cloud API submission to DMTF

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

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

PaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist plaform

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

Thoughts on VMWare, SpringSource and PaaS

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

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)? Part 1 of the “REST in practice for IT and Cloud...

0 replies - 2319 views - 07/28/09 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 - 5581 views - 04/28/09 by William 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 - 8128 views - 07/22/08 by William Vambenepe in News