Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 1, 2008
Is someone going to step in and provide commercial support for the Eucalyptus open-source project basically following the Red Hat model which made Linux commercially successful and generated good revenue for Red Hat?
Here’s what I am thinking based on what I saw and heard at the Cloud Computing Expo (see my notes here):
We know that [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 24, 2008
Here are my notes from the third day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (see also my notes from day 1 and day 2):
Peter Nickolov - President & CTO of 3tera - gave a pitch on how their technology (AppLogic) lets customers use cloud computing for high-availability solutions.
In a nutshell, Peter had an instance of SugarCRM [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 1, 2008
Is VMware’s vCloud - a killer for Amazon’s EC2 services? It definitely sounds like they are shooting to get into the same market.
In a nutshell, Amazon allows you to have your (XEN-based) virtual machines run in Amazon’s data center and execute your application. This is great and makes Amazon a leader in that space today [...]