Upon2020 (archive)
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VMware, CloudFoundry and Clayton Christensen
At the OpenStack Design Summit yesterday, Gordon Mangione of Citrix stated in his keynote that VMware takes almost 80% of all virtualization revenue. Regardless of how accurate this number is, it is large, and so it should not be surprising that VMware wants to protect that revenue stream. But the market is rapidly moving up…
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Why the EC2 Outage Might Have Killed Amazon’s Shot at PaaS Dominance
Today is Monday morning after the biggest cloud outage ever, and one thing is certain: CEOs in so many board rooms around the world are heatedly demanding from their CTOs that something like this never happen to their businesses again. CTO: “but we did plan for fast recovery into a different availability zone. Who knew…
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The Ever-Growing List of PaaS Companies and Paas Projects
I’m trying to keep track of platform-as-a-service companies, products and projects. Here’s my current list: Company/Project Hosted? Open source? Technologies supported Status ActiveState Stackato N ? Perl, Python extensions to CloudFoundry private beta Amazon Beanstalk Y – Java production AppHarbor Y – .Net production Apprenda SaaSGrid – – .NET production Cast – Y multi alpha…
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“HTTPS Now” Campaign Unfortunately Does Not Fix the Problem
EFF activist Eva Galperin in quoted in a ReadWriteWeb article introducing their new campaign: “HTTPS provides the minimum level of security for websites. Without it, no site can make any meaningful security or privacy guarantees to its users.” Well, wouldn’t that be nice! Particularly if HTTPS actually were providing that security. For a counter-point, read…
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Consolidating blogs (Hi netmesh.info visitors!)
Pardon the dust, I’m attempting to merge several blogs of mine here at upon2020.com. Netmesh.info visitors, relax, you are in the right place. ;-) Going forward, upon2020.com will be my canonical blog, and other blog URLs will (hopefully) redirect to here. If not, please let me know!