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From Stack to Cloudscape
Nico Popp shows us a new way to think about the “cloud technology stack”, over at the Verisign Infrablog (or should that now be the Symantic Infrablog?). Unlike the old stack diagram, this one causes one to think …
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Three Questions with PaaS Vendor AppHarbor
The Platform-as-a-Service market is still in its infancy; however, just like developer platforms such as Win32 or LAMP in the past, it will only gain in importance. I thought it would be helpful to collect perspectives from some of the leading PaaS companies, by asking them some key questions about the state of the market…
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How much cloud do Telstra’s $842 million buy?
Fierce Telecon reports that: Telstra … [is] going to spend over AUD 800 million (USD842 million) to expand its cloud capabilities through 2016. This is presumably to compete with Amazon, Rackspace and the like. Let me see: call it five years, so it’s $168m per year if only invested in storage at Amazon, at 1.5…
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Eucalyptus and OpenStack: A Discussion with Marten Mickos
In response to my recent post “Ubuntu, OpenStack, Eucalyptus: When Open-Source Competes with Open-Source”, Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems (and previously of MySQL) offered to discuss the Eucalyptus strategy with me in the “hope … that we would NOT confuse you.” I took him up on it, and a lively and rather interesting discussion…
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PaaS Categories: Technical
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is fairly well-known by now. Whether Amazon, OpenStack, Eucalyptus or any proprietary offerings, the basics are all the same: virtual machines, key-value buckets etc. Not so for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). There are lots of vendors, but the architectures and basic assumptions behind their products differ widely — and those differences are less well-known than…