blog Listing by Tag: standards
Today Rackspace announced it is open sourcing its cloud platform and releasing it as a project called OpenStack together with others. The code should be available for download (if not now then in a...
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...
This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack#8217...
Most APIs are like hospital gowns. They seem to provide good coverage, until you turn around. I am talking about the dreadful state of fault reporting in remote APIs, from Twitter to Cloud interfaces...
There is always a temptation, when facing a hard design decision in the process of creating an interface or a protocol, to produce two (or more) versions. It’s sometimes a good idea, as a way...
The VMforce announcement is a great step for SalesForce.com, in large part because it lets them address a recurring concern about the force.com PaaS offering: the lack of portability of Apex...
The battle of the cloud frameworks has started, and it will look a lot like the battle of the application servers which played out over the last decade and a half. cloud frameworks (which manage IT...
Events/alerts/notifications have been a central concept in IT management at least since the first SNMP trap was emitted, and probably even long before that. And yet they are curiously absent from all...
It’s difficult to throw a stone these days without hitting a so-called "hybrid cloud." The problem is that the term hybrid, used in this context, appears to mean: "Put any two kinds of clouds...
Check out Randy Bias' latest article as he looks at standards within cloud computing. He explains: "Create them now and stifle innovation or create them later when it’s too late? That seems to be the...
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