Piston Cloud is about to release Airframe, a cut-down version of its Piston Enterprise OpenStack platform built so business users have a free way to evaluate and get comfortable with OpenStack in a pre-production environment.
It’s supposed to be ideal in pilot deployments, proof of concept and lab environments.
The bare-metal cloud management platform is said to install in less than 10 minutes – which, if true, is probably remarkable – and deliver all the core OpenStack services including compute, storage, networking and cloud management.
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Revolution R Enterprise Wins Data Science Technology Award
A big thank-you to all the R users out there who voted for Revolution R Enterprise in DataWeek Awards. We’re so pleased to be recognized by the voters and the DataWeek judging panel with the Top Innovator Award for Data Science Technology. We’re looking forward to the awards ceremony next week at DataWeek SF (in San Francisco, September 24-27). If you’d like to come along and join us and 1000 of the other most innovative data-centric companies who are attending, speaking, and participating in this first annual event, you can register here with the code DataWeek25 for a 25% discount….
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CIO as Innovator: Enabling the Strategy-Focused IT Organization
We are now in process of launching our flagship best practices publication, the Cloud CIO guide @ CloudCIO.info. While the technology aspects of Cloud Computing are important, what is actually most noteworthy about the trend is the transformation of the role of the CIO, to become a board-level change agent specializing in innovation. A headline […]
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Clouds
Now that we are a couple of years into the great cloud journey is it pretty clear that the big bang theory of cloud conversion is ain’t happening.
Yes, ISVs are moving rapidly to the SaaS model and it would be hard to find a software startup who is *not* starting in the cloud, but enterprise adoption of the public cloud is happening at a more stately pace.
In large part this is due to the simplification required to make public clouds efficient and the complexity that characterizes most enterprise IT environments. To put it differently, the public cloud makes app deployment simple by pruning app deployment options to the point that few enterprise applications can fit.
Moving forward, I see two paths for cloud adoption: evolutionary and revolutionary.
- Revolutionary cloud: Public clouds like Amazon EC2 and CloudFoundry.com represents a revolutionary leap forward for companies that are willing/able to abandon their current platforms. The revolutionary cloud offers a high degree of operational productivity at the expense of service choice (e.g., you can have any color you want as long as its black).
- Evolutionary cloud: public/private clouds like VMware’s vCloud Director enable enterprises to get cloud benefits (public/private deployment, low upfront cost, elastic scaling, self-healing) without having to make major changes to their application architecture. The evolutionary cloud offers a lower level of productivity with a greater range of choice (e.g., you trade of productivity for flexibility).
Over time, the revolutionary cloud will offer more choice and flexibility while the evolutionary cloud will offer higher automation. Some questions for enterprise developers to answer as they move along this path include:
- How much control do I have over the deployed application environment? The more flexible the deployment environment, the easier it is to move that application to the public cloud.
- How do I move applications between different clouds? Having a way to move applications between evolutionary and revolutionary cloud architectures is just as important as being able to move apps between different flavors of public clouds
CSA Certification; Amazon’s Glacier; Cloud Tax and More
Amazon launched a low-cost storage service called Amazon Glacier, according to this TechCrunch article. The latest of Amazon’s cloud services, Amazon Glacier provides “secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup,” according to this Amazon Glacier overview.
Massachusetts has been grappling with how to tax cloud computing services and this month, it has decided on the conditions that make the cloud taxable, according to this NetworkWorld article. Massachusetts will collect taxes on SaaS when a license is required to run the service. Taxes won’t be collected on free, open source software.
Clouducation 101: What is the Cloud?
What is the “Cloud”? What is “Cloud” computing? These are questions I get all the time. For the vast majority of people, the “Cloud” is a lofty term having to do something with computing or, let’s be honest, puffy cumulus wisps of moisture floating around in the sky. The truth is the “Cloud” is a marketing term made up to sell a service (note: the quotation marks around “Cloud” were to delineate that marketing term. From here on out, “Cloud” will be written sans quotation). That service, the Cloud, is computing and storage capacity as a service. In human terms, it is a system of delivering computing and storage needs via three types of computing services: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Although this is true, for most people Cloud can be broken down into two categories, Public or Private.
Cloud Encryption and PCI Thoughts
There is a lot of guidance and expertise on achieving PCI compliance. In virtualized and cloud computing environments it is trickier, yet a lot of expertise is building up there as well. Witness the venerable PCI Security Standards organization and its guideline for virtualization, which includes a section on cloud computing as well. Yet in […]
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Eucalyptus Clouds Up With Appcara
Eucalyptus continues its aggressive march through the cloud computing skyscape, with an agreement with upstart Appcara to integrate Eucalyptus private IaaS with public Amazon Web Services. Appcara has said its model-basaed approach competes directly with cloud management leader Rightscale, a company with which Eucalyptus also cooperates.
Appcara’s product, AppStack, “captures and assembles the entire application environment regardless of languages and development platforms and provides 100 percent automation throughout the application lifeycle,” according to CEO John Yung. “Users have found that AppStack has reduced their DevOps effort dramatically – turning painfully manual enterprise application deployment processes into highly automated workloads.”
For Eucalyptus’s part, SVP David Butler says, “Enterprise customers turn to Eucalyptus for open, scalable and fully compatible on-premise clouds to freely manage and migrate workloads based on business demand. By leveraging Eucalyptus’ industry leading on-premise IaaS cloud sofware, and compatability with AWS APIs, Appcara can provide even the most advanced enterprise IT applications with on-demand cloud deployment, real-time configuration and advanced operations.”
I’ll be talking to both companies (among others) at VMworld next week, and will report back on what I hear.
United Apple-Google Front Stymies Kodak Patent Sale
In an unusual rapprochement, bitter rivals Apple and the Android mob including Google, Samsung, HTC and LG have teamed up to buy the Kodak patents on the cheap, according to the Wall Street Journal, a stratagem that had Kodak threatening to pull the sale only Kodak is boxed in.
Analytics for the Cloud
“Big Data” is everywhere. What does it mean? In this article we discuss the impact of cloud and big data technology have on the application performance monitoring space. The number of components, the diversity of the data, the analysis frequency and data granularity results into an extremely complex analytics and Big Data problem. We explore how each of these dimension impact the APM space and how it is shaping Netuitive Analytics product roadmap.