Upon2020 (archive)
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Ubuntu, OpenStack, Eucalyptus: When Open-Source Competes with Open-Source
The Ubuntu project today announced: …that future versions of Ubuntu Cloud will use OpenStack as a foundation technology. Eucalyptus will continue to be a available for download and will be supported … but also: Ubuntu will provide tools to automate the migration process to the Ubuntu Server 11.10 release when it is released in October…
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User-Centricity, App-Centricity and the Cloud
This post has been prompted by a tweet exchange today between myself and James Urquhart. He wrote: Basically, as compute moves from server to app centric model, networking moving from switch/router to connectivity-centric ops model. Let me first totally agree with what he says there: things like OpenStack allow us to move up one level…
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Four Competing Visions of PaaS Evolution
I spent some time recently trying to understand how platform-as-a-service efforts might evolve from here. The OpenStack Design Summit this past week, and the Talk Cloudy To Me event of the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Saturday were particularly helpful. I figure I might as well blog what I found… which is four competing…
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InfoGraphic: How Big Is Cloud Computing?
Really interesting graphic. Can’t vouch for the numbers but their ballpark seems right. Via: Wikibon
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OpenStack: The House Elves Of Your Datacenter
One of my goals attending the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara this week was to figure out just what exactly OpenStack is and what it wants to become. Listening to so many talks and discussions, I now understand it: OpenStack is the house elves of your data center, and a set of magic incantations…