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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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VMWare, Identity and User-Centricity in the Enterprise
Lots of good commentary on VMWare’s new Horizon App Manager today, which is what their Tricipher acquisition seems to have turned into. The phrase that struck me the most — thus this post — was Krishnan‘s description at CloudAve: a user-centric management service for accessing cloud applications from any device. It clearly is user-centric: it […]
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InfoQ: Interview: VMware Cloud System CTO Explains Cloud Foundry Architecture and Strategy
InfoQ: Interview: VMware Cloud System CTO Explains Cloud Foundry Architecture and Strategy.
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Interview with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby
Worthwhile InformationWeek interview. Choice quotes: InformationWeek: Citrix CEO Mark Templeton described four power centers that seem to be emerging in the cloud: Amazon/Xen, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack. Do you agree with that assessment, and would you modify it in any way? Crosby: I think it’s right. .. VMware’s opportunity is to displace Microsoft, BMC, […]
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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 […]