Tag Archives: api

Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?

July 20, 2010 – 12:01

This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there have been two major camps: Amazon API and architecture compatible and VMware’s vCloud. [...]

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Lew Tucker, former Sun Cloud CTO, now Cloudscaling advisor

May 11, 2010 – 08:01

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2010 – Cloudscaling today announced that Lew Tucker, former CTO of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit, has joined Cloudscaling’s advisory board.  Cloudscaling CEO, Randy Bias, expanded on what this means to the company, “If you look at Lew’s history, you will see that he is a true visionary and [...]

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VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND ONE … FIGHT!

September 15, 2009 – 08:00

More and more it’s becoming apparent that VMware and Amazon are headed for a serious collision.  Amazon is eager to capture more of the enterprise business market, VMware’s bread and butter.  Meanwhile, VMware is actively supporting a new crop of Amazon competitors with its recent vCloud Express release.  More importantly, what perhaps neither have realized or, [...]

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Bifurcating Clouds

August 6, 2009 – 08:30

There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium.  If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], and focused clouds. In retrospect I realize now that there are possibly four, not [...]

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DNS-as-a-Service + Dynect Review

May 26, 2009 – 11:04

Domain Name Service (DNS) is a crucial part of the cloud infrastructure stack that is often overlooked. All Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers today deliver it in some form, from Amazon’s automated, but unconfigurable service to GoGrid’s manual, but highly configurable service. Fortunately, while compute clouds are new to this game, there are some old hands [...]

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