Would you like some management with that appliance?
Andi Mann recently wrote an interesting post about virtual appliances . He uses the domain name pleasediscuss.com for his blog so I figured I’d do just that. More specifically, I have three comments on...
View ArticleCloud + proprietary software = ♥
When I left HP for Oracle, in the summer of 2007, a friend made the argument that Cloud Computing (I think we were still saying “Utility Computing” at the time) would be the death of proprietary...
View ArticleA week of Oracle Middleware, Management and Cloud
Oracle has a busy week in store for people who are interested in application management. Today, the company announced: Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, to package and easily deploy virtualized...
View ArticleIntroducing the Oracle Cloud API
Oracle recently published a Cloud management API on OTN and also submitted a subset of the API to the new DMTF Cloud Management working group. The OTN specification, titled “Oracle Cloud Resource Model...
View ArticleAWS CloudFormation is the iPhone of Cloud services
Expanding on tweet that I wrote soon after the announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The iPhone unifies the GPS, phone, PDA, camera and camcorder. CloudFormation does the same for infrastructure services...
View ArticleDMTF publishes draft of Cloud API
Note to anyone who still cares about IaaS standards: the DMTF has published a work in progress. There was a lot of interest in the topic in 2009 and 2010. Some heated debates took place during Cloud...
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