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OpenStack Production Readiness: Rackspace Leads By Example
Last week, OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) released their latest version of cloud platform named Essex. This news was masked by the announcement by Citrix on CloudStack going to Apache...
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OpenStack Momentum Is Amazing
OpenStack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week I was at OpenStack Analyst Day held on the sidelines of OpenStack Design Summit and Conference at San Francisco. I had a chance to talk with OpenStack...
View ArticleTier 3′s Approach To PaaS
From time to time we add videos of services and products offered by vendors. Yesterday, I attended a local event where Jared Wray, CTO of Tier 3 (previous CloudAve coverage), talked about their...
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CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality
Remember BOSH? The open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and life cycle management of very large scale instances of Cloud Foundry, announced a few weeks back? They initially...
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HP’s AWS Strategy
Image Credit: TheVarGuy.com HP yesterday announced that they are releasing their public cloud in public beta. During the media blitz preceding the announcement, Zorowar Biri Singh SVP and GM for HP...
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On The Issue Of Standardization Around AWS APIs
Image via CrunchBase I am an vocal opponent of the idea of standardization around AWS API *at this point of time*. I think that it is too early to standardize and too risky especially when Amazon has...
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Flexiant Releases New Version Targeting The Service Provider Market
Flexiant yesterday announced the release of Flexiant 2.0, the updated and highly polished version of their cloud software. Flexiant is a UK based cloud software provider with their heritage from the...
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Who Will Disrupt AWS?
Last week Amazon Web Services (previous CloudAve coverage) announced that they are lowering their support costs and also introducing a free plan. The AWS Support program just got even better! We have...
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Cloupia Expands Beyond Flexpod As They Update Their Offerings
Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based company offering automation and orchestration solutions, announced last week that they are enhancing their product to meet the needs of...
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Why Google Compute Engine Is The Right Move
Two weeks back at Google I/O, Google announced the release of their infrastructure services offering called Google Compute Engine. This is a pretty interesting move from Google who is late in the...
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Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis
Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech...
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Two Years Of OpenStack: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
OpenStack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week at OSCON (CloudAve Coverage), OpenStack project (previous CloudAve coverage) celebrated its second birthday with much fanfare. Even though I missed the...
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Two Years Of OpenStack: Looking From The Other Side
OpenStack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yesterday I wrote a post about OpenStack and talked about the concerns among the developers that there is too much emphasis given to marketing than engineering....
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OpenStack Elections: Troubling Questions
Last weekend there was an uproar in the cloud community over a post made by Shanley Kane, geek in the valley working for Basho. The post is now removed from her Github account but it was apparently...
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Misconceptions About Federated Clouds
Photo Credit: vibriefings.com As I promote the idea of federated clouds (previous CloudAve coverage), there seems to be some misconceptions among readers and other bloggers. I thought I will use this...
View ArticleVideo: A Peek Into Intel IT
Intel, the portland based microprocessor vendor, is also a large enterprise IT user. They have large number of employees spread all over the world and they have various divisions including...
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SUSE’s OpenStack Cloud Is Good For The Ecosystem
Last week at CloudOpen 2012, SUSE (previous CloudAve coverage) announced the availability of SUSE Cloud, a commercially supported private cloud solution based on OpenStack. SUSE Cloud is a cloud...
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OpenStack Summit – Fall 2012: My Expectations
OpenStack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As I travel to San Diego to attend the OpenStack Summit (Fall 2012 edition), I am thinking about what to expect from the event. I wrote about the enthusiasm I saw in...
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Google Compute Engine Is Gonna Change The Public Cloud Game
During the last Google I/O, Google’s user conference, Google announced Google Compute Engine (GCE). GCE was Google’s answer to Amazon EC2 and they opened up their private beta to handful of people. I...
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Eucalyptus’ AWS Bet
Yesterday Eucalyptus announced the new version of their software and, in the process, more closely aligned with AWS. It is not surprising given the ground realities of cloud infrastructure market. I...
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