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Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?
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 … Continue reading
Lew Tucker, former Sun Cloud CTO, now Cloudscaling advisor
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 … Continue reading
VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND ONE … FIGHT!
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 … Continue reading
Bifurcating Clouds
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], … Continue reading
DNS-as-a-Service + Dynect Review
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 … Continue reading