Red Hat has ben making steady progress toward what is shaping up as a fairly interesting cloud strategy. Building on their Deltacloud API abstraction layer and their CloudForms IaaS software, a hybrid cloud model is starting to emerge. Add to this their OpenShift PaaS system, and you can see that Red Hat is assembling a... Continue Reading →
RACI and PaaS – A Change in Operations
I have been having a great debate with one of my colleagues about the changing role of the IT operations (aka "I&O") function in the context of PaaS. Nobody debates that I&O is responsible and accountable for infrastructure operations. Application developers (with or without the blessing of Enterprise Architecture) select platform components such as application... Continue Reading →
Cloud API Standardization – It’s Time to Get Serious
UPDATE 6/2 Given the recent losses by Oracle vs. Google in their copyright Java farce it looks like using the AWS APIs as a standard for the industry could actually work. Anybody want to take the lead and set up a Cloud API standards body and publish an AWS-compatible API spec for everybody to use??... Continue Reading →
Eucalyptus and AWS – Much Ado About Nothing
UPDATED: Eucalyptus announced a $30M financing round from a great group of VCs. That will buy them some room but if they want to get a good return on the $55.5M they've raised, they're going to need to hit it out of the park. At least they'll be busy spending all that green. Yes, this... Continue Reading →
Talking Cloud in the Enterprise
Despite the fact that cloud is part of the daily conversation in many enterprises, I still find a significant gap in many places in terms of a true understanding of that it means. This is somewhat compounded by the reliance on standard definitions of cloud computing from NIST and other sources. These definitions are helpful... Continue Reading →
How Some Journalists Confuse People About Cloud
Simon Wardley and I had a quick exchange about the sloppily written and factually inaccurate writing of Wired's Jon Stokes. Simon commented about a November post on Wired CloudLine as follows: @swardley: "This Wired post on cloud from Nov '11 - where it isn't wrong (repeating unfounded myths), it is tediously obvious - bit.ly/wWLbsL" I... Continue Reading →
PaaSing Comments – Data and PaaS
I've been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks. Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve, and at one level I fully agree... Continue Reading →
Cloudy Implications and Recommendations in Megaupload Seizure
The FBI seized popular upload site Megaupload.com yesterday. They took the site down and now own the servers. I am not an attorney, and I have no opinion on whether or not the MegaUpload guys were breaking laws or encouraging users to violate copyrights through illegal uploading and streaming of movies, recordings, etc. Right or... Continue Reading →
Cloud Stack Red Ocean Update – More Froth, but More Clarity Too
The cloud stack market continues to go through waves and gyrations, but increasingly now the future is becoming more clear. As I have been writing about for a while, the number of competitors in the market for "cloud stacks" is totally unsustainable. There are really only four "camps" now in the cloud stack business that... Continue Reading →
Don’t Mention the Cloud
The "cloud" term has started to turn like the leaves on the trees outside my Window. It's yellowing, drying out and about to fall to Earth to be raked up and composted into fertilizer if something isn't done to stop it. Where once it was the magic phrase that opened any door, the term "cloud"... Continue Reading →
John Treadway 