Today’s “Nymwar” Protests: Grass-Roots Dissent By The Governed
Who gets to decide what your name is? Upon birth, your parents pick your name, just like they decide what food you eat and when to take a bath, as it is appropriate for parents of infants. After you grow up, naming rules are very different by jurisdict...
Hayden: Google Acting as a Nation-State
Great to see somebody on top of things, here Michael Hayden, previously director of the NSA and the CIA in the context of the Shady Rat attacks: “You see Google acting in some ways as nation-states used to act, exercising to the best of their ability...
Three Questions with PaaS Vendor CumuLogic
This installment of the “three questions” is with CumuLogic‘s founder Rajesh Ramchandani. CumuLogic was started by Sun veterans who had been working with Java for a long time, and naturally their market focus is Java. Compare with App...
The Hamster Business Model
Dave Winer has a wonderful description of the model of many “leading” internet companies: the “hamster” business model. He writes: This is, btw, the user-as-hamster business model. The one where you sit in a cage and make the wh...
Why Software Projects are “80% Done” 80% of the Time
It’s one of the seemingly inexplicable oddities of life in the software business: when you ask developers about their status, they often say “I’m about 80% done with my project” for about 80% of the duration of the project. So t...
Three Questions with PaaS Vendor AppHarbor
The Platform-as-a-Service market is still in its infancy; however, just like developer platforms such as Win32 or LAMP in the past, it will only gain in importance. I thought it would be helpful to collect perspectives from some of the leading PaaS com...
How much cloud do Telstra’s $842 million buy?
Fierce Telecon reports that: Telstra … [is] going to spend over AUD 800 million (USD842 million) to expand its cloud capabilities through 2016. This is presumably to compete with Amazon, Rackspace and the like. Let me see: call it five years, so ...
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 “h...
PaaS Categories: Technical
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is fairly well-known by now. Whether Amazon, OpenStack, Eucalyptus or any proprietary offerings, the basics are all the same: virtual machines, key-value buckets etc. Not so for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). There are...
Platform as a service and redundancy: Nagging questions | ZDNet
Larry Dignan at ZDNet makes similar points on the prospects of bolting PaaS to IaaS as I did in my piece on the EC2 outage and its implications on Amazon’s PaaS strategy.
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...
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