This post is the second in a series: To read them in order, start here. There are three trends that I have seen happening over the past few years that are indirectly or directly influencing the future of networks; The first is the use of FPGAs and ASICs to solve problems around distributed applications and network […]
Category: PaaS – Platform as a Service
PaaS Element Types
Please Note : This post builds directly on the previous post “A viable PaaS Model” What are PaaS Element Types? PaaS Element Types are the constructs required to build a PaaS. Each PaaS Element Type builds upon the previous, I’m not the first to come up with the overall concept of Types building upon one […]
A viable PaaS Model
What makes a PaaS a PaaS? I’ve seen many discussions on blogs and twitter around this topic, so much so that many people are tired of talking about it because it always leads to cyclical discussions. I for one haven’t been satisfied with any of the answers that I have seen. Some people try to […]
Defying Data Gravity
How to Defy Data Gravity Since I have changed companies, I have been incredibly busy as of late and my blog has had the appearance of neglect. At a minimum I was trying to do a post or two per week. The tempo will be changing soon to move closer to this…. As a first […]
IaaS and SaaS lead to PaaS
Most people currently portray the Public Clouds as a stack consisting of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Worse still, they try to define Private Clouds in the same way. In a discussion I had with Christofer Hoff – @Beaker he accurately pointed out that this isn’t entirely the case, that they are all really Integrations. This blog […]
The Future of PaaS in the Enterprise – The Service Oriented Platform
Anyone who followed Cloud Computing last year watched several changes occur throughout the space. These changes were happening in the view of what Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds were defined as, the interest in IaaS solutions in the Enterprise and within Service Providers, and finally a renewed interest in the potential of PaaS. Currently Public […]
Current PaaS Patterns – Types of PaaS
There are many definititions of PaaS that I have run across, the most succinct of which is “A Service where Code is uploaded and executed”. While succinct, this leaves a lot of “wiggle room” for what PaaS really is. The secret is PaaS isn’t one thing, it is a broad array of things that can […]
Cloud Escape Velocity – Switching Cloud Providers
The term Escape Velocity is the speed needed to “break free” from a gravitational field without further propulsion according to Wikipedia.org. Data Gravity as explained in THIS previous post is what attracts and builds more Data, Applications, and Services on Clouds. Data Gravity also is what creates a high level of Escape Velocity to move to […]
Data Gravity – in the Clouds
Today Salesforce.com announced Database.com at Dreamforce. I realized that many could be wondering why they decided to do this and more so, why now? The answer is Data Gravity. Consider Data as if it were a Planet or other object with sufficient mass. As Data accumulates (builds mass) there is a greater likelihood that additional […]
An Administrator’s view of Open PaaS and VMforce
After posting about How Development works on Open PaaS and VMforce, I felt it was time to provide an equivalent view from an Administrator’s perspective. Before going deep, I thought I would provide a comparison of what things look like between the Developer’s view of things vs. the Administrator’s. Please note that this is derived […]
AppCloud appears to be VMware Open PaaS Cloud backend name
As I continue to go through VMC related code, I have come across a few code entries talking about AppCloud. At first I thought this might be a reference to EngineYard’s AppCloud solution. This brought to mind the rumors I mentioned in previous posts, but after further digging and reading the following code and code […]
How Development works on Open PaaS & VMforce
After having gone through the materials available (both the easy to find and the difficult to find) I have created what should be an accurate view of what the environments inside a VMware Open PaaS and VMforce world should look like. In this post is a series of diagrams that I have created based on […]
Walk-through of the VMforce / Cloud OS / OpenPaaS Demo
This post attempts to walk-through the demo that was shown at the Ruby Conference. I was not actually at the conference, but I am reconstructing what happened based on materials and information that was tweeted and the presentation materials. The walk-through above shows a sophisticated PaaS layer (reminding me of the Google AppEngine PaaS) where […]
VMware quietly shows Cloud OS, OpenPaaS, and VMforce at Ruby Conference
Yesterday, VMware previewed the first concrete evidence that they are moving forward on the OpenPaaS initiative, the VMware Cloud OS, and VMforce at the 2010 Ruby Conference in New Orleans. At the conference Derek Collison demonstrated an early preview of the VMware Cloud OS via. a command line interface that he and Ezra Zygmuntowicz created. […]
Where most Enterprise IT Architectures are today
Most Enterprises are architecturally in a rigid and fragile state. This has been caused by years of legacy practices in support of poor code, design patterns, underpowered hardware (which focused on increasing MHz not parallelism/multi-cores). What follows is a brief review of what has led us here and is needed background for the follow-on post […]
CAP Theorem and Clouds
A background on CAP Theorem: CAP Theorem is firmly anchored in the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) movement and is showing promise as a way of classifying different types of Cloud Solution Architectures. What follows is an explanation about CAP Theorem, how it works, and why it is so relevant to anyone looking at Clouds (Public, […]
The Real Path to Clouds
I’ve been spending a great deal of time as of late researching the background and roots of Cloud Computing in an effort to fully understand it. The goal behind this was to understand what Cloud computing is at all levels, and is quite a tall order. I think I have it figured out and am […]
Is it me or is it EngineYard ? Updated – (The Answer is BOTH)
UPDATED: So after doing some additional reading at the suggestion of @drnic, I read what @tmornini said about the changes occurring. What is the stated view of events? EngineYard is growing up. I can believe this as a plausible explanation, I state this because I have personally gone through this type of change at several of the startups […]
Data Gravitas 