The Week in Review
Friday, August 14, 2009, 5:26PM - John Panagulias
Putting the Cloud Before the Horse argues the importance of architecture and automation when implementing a cloud strategy for the enterprise. Lori MacVittie says to not confuse virtualization with building a cloud environment, the benefits of the later - autonomic, scalability and availability - will far outstrip the former as you move away from personnel-intensive operations.
Speaking of automatic scalability and self-provisioning, check out my synopsis of the recent CloudWorld event and, in particular, Lew Tucker's presentation now available on ZDNet. Tucker is the CTO of cloud computing at Sun.
As I wrote about earlier in the week, VMware's acquisition of SpringSource is a good strategic move as they aim to grow their business beyond virtualization, towards cloud computing with a promising Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. If you're interested in additional analysis on the acquisition, I recommend Forrester's James Staten and his blog post VMWare Completes The PaaS to vCloud, as well as Jay Lyman's article for the 451 Group: VMware-SpringSource about cloud, competition, and open source in that order.
Other highlights:
» VMware Acquires SpringSource to Fulfill Cloud Vision
» RightScale Partners Up for BI in the Cloud
» Rackspace Opens Up Cloud APIs, Bindings - Intensifies competition with Amazon
» EMC, Cisco and VMware to Release Joint Data Center Product
» JVC to Move to the Cloud - Will spend $24.7 million so IBM can lift it into an outsourced cloud
» Best Buy Embraces Cloud Computing - with help from Enomaly
» 3PAR Saves CEDAR Document Technologies Nearly Half a Million Dollars
» ParaScale Forecasts Cloud Storage Opportunities
» High-Performance Computing Isn't Always About Performance
Category: Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service
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