Egenera Touts Choice In Converged Infrastructure
When it comes to datacenter operations, there is always this debate on converged infrastructure: Should one buy readymade converged infrastructure offered by hardware vendors or use software for...
View ArticleVMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source....
View ArticleOpen Source, Adoption And Whatever
Image via Wikipedia Regular readers of my blog know that I am an unabashed advocate of Open Source. However, in my conversations with the industry, I often come across an argument which I feel is...
View ArticleOpenStack Cactus Adds Some Interesting Features
OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage), the Open Source Cloud Platform project spearheaded by Rackspace, today announced the release of the next stable version, codenamed Cactus. Even though this...
View ArticleCan Office 365 Help Microsoft’s Future?
Microsoft today took the wrappers off their Office 365 offering and allowed any business to try out the beta version. The general availability is scheduled for sometime later in the year. Office 365 is...
View ArticleRight Scale And Zend Announce Portable PHP PaaS
RightScale (see previous CloudAve coverage), one of the leading cloud management companies, and Zend (see previous CloudAve coverage) have announced a solution to deploy and manage business critical...
View ArticleGoogle Wants More Of Your Data On Their Cloud But …..
Image via Wikipedia Google today announced that it is opening up their cloud infrastructure to let you store and process your geospatial data. They announced a new web based offering called Google...
View ArticleDropbox Shows Why We Can’t Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined
For the past few weeks, Tech Media is buzzing with discussions on Dropbox (see previous CloudAve coverage) security. Dropbox from their modest beginnings have grown big with 25 Million users. Recently,...
View ArticleSome Lessons From AWS Outage
Yesterday’s AWS outage has been buzzing around the tech blogosphere even after 24+ hours. As usual naysayers of cloud are up in the arms trying not to miss the golden opportunity to create FUD and...
View ArticleDesigning For Failure: Some Key Facts
The AWS outage from last week brought the idea of “design for failure” into focus in many of the discussions around the cloud world. Looking back at the outage, it is pretty clear that only those apps...
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