It's interesting that just as Apple announced surprisingly positive quarterly results, Microsoft announced their first decline in sales revenues in 23 years. While Microsoft is not in any kind
Apr
24
2009
Apr
23
2009
Today’s Great Open Cloud Shootout was great fun — at least for me! I had the pleasure to tease these distinguished gentlemen with cloudy questions:
- Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, Sun Microsystems
- Monty Taylor, MySQL Drizzle Geek, Sun Microsystems
- Jeremy Zawodny, MySQL hacker, craigslist
- Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
- Thorsten von Eicken, CTO, RightScale
- Prashant Malik, Cassandra Dude, Facebook
- Mike Culver, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
I tried to provoke the panelists with questions around some areas I had thought out:
- So, what is a cloud anyway?
- Who is the cloud for?
- Why use the cloud?
- Cloud adoption barriers
- Are there cloud standards?
- Cloud Business Opportunities
- Cloud Competition
- Databases & Clouds
Apr
22
2009
I arrived at the MySQL Users Conference just in time for the
The Great Open Cloud Shootout.
Kaj Arno was asking questions to the invited panelists shown in
the picture above. Here is a partial discussion:
What is cloud ?
| Thorsten | Fully automatbale computing infrastructure, changes the way production scale deployments operate, saves time/cost, increases reliability |
| Chander | Elasiticity is an important aspect, Can "shoot for the moon without shooting foot", accessing a pool of resources which is infinite from an individual/organization … |
Apr
22
2009
I arrived at the MySQL Users Conference just in time for the
The Great Open Cloud Shootout.
Kaj Arno was asking questions to the invited panelists shown in
the picture above. Here is a partial discussion:
What is cloud ?
| Thorsten | Fully automatbale computing infrastructure, changes the way production scale deployments operate, saves time/cost, increases reliability |
| Chander | Elasiticity is an important aspect, Can "shoot for the moon without shooting foot", accessing a pool of resources which is infinite from an individual/organization … |
Apr
22
2009
I arrived at the MySQL Users Conference just in time for the
The Great Open Cloud Shootout.
Kaj Arno was asking questions to the invited panelists shown in
the picture above. Here is a partial discussion:
What is cloud ?
| Thorsten | Fully automatbale computing infrastructure, changes the way production scale deployments operate, saves time/cost, increases reliability |
| Chander | Elasiticity is an important aspect, Can "shoot for the moon without shooting foot", accessing a pool of resources which is infinite from an individual/organization … |
Apr
19
2009
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Mon-Thu I'll be attending the MySQL User's Conference here in Santa Clara. The tone of the conference is noticeably different to that of its (even larger) sibling JavaOne in San Francisco, and the topics are very grounded in the practical needs of the Users of the technology. There are many very interesting talks, below is a small selection extracted from my Personal Schedule. Starting with those related to topics we normally cover here: Several BOFs: … |
Apr
02
2009
Marco Tabini has a great post discussing the cost of the cloud, and the current state of affairs. He calls for a simpler cloud platform, not just in terms of cost, but ease of use and products and services that adapt to changes in the market. Though the $100/month Mosso offering is mentioned (this site is hosted on Mosso), I would like to point out the recent acquisitions by Rackspace/Mosso that make their cloud offerings even more compelling than AWS for me.
- Slicehost : Rackspace announced the acquisition in late 2008. This allows me to spin up virtual instances or Slicehost’s version of AMI’s called Slices (this was updated due to Ian’s comment below. You cannot migrate an AMI from EC2 to …
Mar
27
2009
Sun's Open Cloud Vision unveilled: Open Cloud Platform, an open infrastructure powered by Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software technologies. Open APIs, Open formats and Open source.
On March 18th, at CommunityONE aka CloudONE, Sun unveiled the open cloud platform for powering public and private clouds. We also announced that we are building our own Public Cloud. This will include a Storage and Compute Cloud. Our Cloud will be compatible with Amazon S3 and EC2 at the API level. Meaning, we will provide S3 and EC2 compatibility APIs in addition to our own, hence enabling an easy migration from Amazon services to Sun Cloud. All clouds - public, private or hybrid, built on Sun's Open Cloud platform will be interoperable and there will be minimal vendor lockin given the cloud platform will be built on open …
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Mar
27
2009
Sun's Open Cloud Vision unveilled: Open Cloud Platform, an open infrastructure powered by Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software technologies. Open APIs, Open formats and Open source.
On March 18th, at CommunityONE aka CloudONE, Sun unveiled the open cloud platform for powering public and private clouds. We also announced that we are building our own Public Cloud. This will include a Storage and Compute Cloud. Our Cloud will be compatible with Amazon S3 and EC2 at the API level. Meaning, we will provide S3 and EC2 compatibility APIs in addition to our own, hence enabling an easy migration from Amazon services to Sun Cloud. All clouds - public, private or hybrid, built on Sun's Open Cloud platform will be interoperable and there will be minimal vendor lockin given the cloud platform will be built on open …
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Mar
27
2009
Sun's Open Cloud Vision unveilled: Open Cloud Platform, an open infrastructure powered by Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software technologies. Open APIs, Open formats and Open source.
On March 18th, at CommunityONE aka CloudONE, Sun unveiled the open cloud platform for powering public and private clouds. We also announced that we are building our own Public Cloud. This will include a Storage and Compute Cloud. Our Cloud will be compatible with Amazon S3 and EC2 at the API level. Meaning, we will provide S3 and EC2 compatibility APIs in addition to our own, hence enabling an easy migration from Amazon services to Sun Cloud. All clouds - public, private or hybrid, built on Sun's Open Cloud platform will be interoperable and there will be minimal vendor lockin given the cloud platform will be built on open …
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