The cloud era and open source
,----[ Quote ]
| Questions of “server market share” will go away, replaced by market shares
| for applications and traffic. Or shares for whose cloud programs are living
| in. The answers may prove cloudy indeed.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2379
Too Many Vendors Or Not Enough Innovation?
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| This has obviously been debated ad nauseam, but the perfect storm of open
| source, cloud computing, and Web 2.0 certainly makes for interesting
| speculation.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/05/too_many_vendor.html
Yesterday:
Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate 'Cloud Computing'
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| The IBM-Google cloud, which to Microsoft might look more like an approaching
| thunderhead, runs on Linux, which has long been embraced by IBM as a
| non-Windows alternative.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207404265
Enomaly’s open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloud
,----[ Quote ]
| The platform, Enomalism, is a virtual infrastructure tool that allows
| customers create their own cloud capacity and move virtual machines from
| one’s data center or from anywhere on the cloud to virtually any location. It
| is similar in some respects to VMware’s VirtualCenter VM management platform
| but is designed for larger capacity computing and managing applications in
| the cloud.
|
| [...]
|
| Cohen, who founded Enomaly as a consulting firm four years ago, said he
| prefers Linux’s built in kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology...
|
| ]...]
|
| Enomaly is sponsored (but not financially supported) by Intel. It is released
| under the AGPL license, sort of a GPL3 implementation for hosted solutions,
| Cohen said.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=407
Days ago:
Lost in the Clouds
,----[ Quote ]
| Just as the open source LAMP stack created the current wave of Web 2.0
| companies, so free software will run the magic machinery keeping clouds
| aloft.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/lost-in-clouds.html
Recent:
Red Hat Prepping Managed Services Strategy
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| The convergence of open source with managed services and software as a
| service (SaaS) continues. The latest example: Red Hat, arguably the world’s
| best-known open source company, has created two staff positions to serve
| hosting partners. Plus, Red Hat is evaluating a strategy to work more closely
| with managed service providers, MSPmentor has learned. Here’s the scoop.
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http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/04/21/red-hat-prepping-managed-services-strategy/
Force.com: Salesforce Moves into the Platform Business
,----[ Quote ]
| If you imagine the "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) landscape as a spectrum,
| you have offerings like Amazon's EC2 at one end. EC2 is essentially a
| VM-based technology with some scalability infrastructure, but you have to
| roll everything else yourself, from persistence to failover. In the middle,
| you have products like Google's App Engine, which allow you to deploy an
| application with many of the underlying nuts-and-bolts concerns handled by
| Google, but is still essentially a deployment environment that you hand-code
| Python with.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6477/1/
Sun obscured by The Cloud
,----[ Quote ]
| I wrote previously that "Java-in-the-cloud" will lead us
| to "Platform-as-a-Service" and as I continue to think about it, Sun has more
| of the pieces than any other BigCo--the right of hardware, operating system
| (Solaris) and development environment (Java) than does HP, IBM, or Microsoft.
| And don't forget that they also have MySQL and a huge development community.
`----
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13846_1-9922762-62.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NegativeApproach
Truviso Contributes PostgreSQL Enhancements to Open Source Community
,----[ Quote ]
| As part of its commitment to the open source community, Truviso, a leading
| provider of next-generation business intelligence solutions, today announced
| that it has completed an enhancement to the PostgreSQL open source database
| system that further extends its suitability for streaming data analysis.
| Truviso also announced it will contribute this enhancement to the PostgreSQL
| community, reinforcing the company’s foundational tenet of building upon and
| sharing mutually beneficial improvements to open source code with the
| PostgreSQL community.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080418005165&newsLang=en
Amazon keeps getting the Cloud right while everyone else snoozes
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| The cloud has become one of the most interesting market dynamics since open
| source.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13846_1-9922719-62.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NegativeApproach
Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 - an EC2 for the rest of us?
,----[ Quote ]
| The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a Web-based service that
| allows business subscribers to run application programs in the Amazon.com
| computing environment. The EC2 can serve as a practically unlimited set of
| virtual machines.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=397
Battle of developer ecosystems heads for the cloud
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| Open source comes to platform-as-a-service
|
| Coghead's development service and gallery are specifically aimed at small
| businesses, both developers and customers. It is aiming to recruit
| value-added resellers or independent consultants with 2 to 20 people,
| according to company CEO Paul McNamara.
|
| With a hosted development environment, they can write a Web application and
| get into the software-as-a-service business, he said.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9916413-7.html
Related:
Another step toward the online "cloud computing" life
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| Web-based computing has these advantages: It doesn't matter what kind of
| computer you use. Mac, Windows, Linux, Ubuntu -- they're all the same. It
| doesn't matter whose computer you're using, or where. You don't have to drag
| hard drives or USB sticks or even computers around with you, or copy files
| between a desktop and a laptop machine to keep them up to date. You just sit
| down wherever you get a web connection and dig in. Everything you need is
| stored in the internet "cloud."
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http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/another_step_toward_the_online.php
IBM moves on secure mashups
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| IBM is unveiling technology to secure mashups Thursday and is donating it to
| the OpenAjax Alliance, an organization promoting AJAX (Asynchronous
| JavaScript and XML) interoperability.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/12/ibm-smash-mashups_1.html
Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox
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| That user experience is starting to evolve beyond today's browsing
| experience. The most interesting topic discussed in our meeting was just how
| compelling Mozilla's Firefox will increasingly be as the platform for much
| that happens on the Web. Forget Facebook, MySpace, the iPhone, and other
| so-called platforms. Firefox could well prove to be the most disruptive Web
| platform on the market. Here's why.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9893479-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Start-up Xcerion offers a peek at the clouds
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9893519-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
A walk through Xcerion's icloud
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| Xcerion, a little-known Swedish start-up, has created a browser-based
| environment known as icloud that looks a whole lot like a Windows or Linux
| desktop.
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http://www.news.com/2300-1012_3-6234262-1.html?part=rss&tag=6234262&subj=news
Cloud Computing - Did anybody notice Microsoft’s SQL Server Data Services
Announcement?
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| Linux has an early lead in
| this area with service offerings like Amazon’s Linux based S3 and IBM’s Blue
| Cloud which uses Xen and PowerVM virtualized Linux operating-system images.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/03/14/cloud-computing-did-anybody-notice-microsofts-sql-server-data-services-announcement/
Enterprise Unix Roundup: Unix Heads for the Clouds
,----[ Quote ]
| And if — if — cloud computing advances to the point where we do indeed use
| devices that connect to the cloud with virtually no on-board software,
| Microsoft will be shut out of that part of the cloud, too. Its embedded OS
| has not demonstrated a real market strength or scalability. But Linux has.
|
| [...]
|
| And out on the servers and mainframes that will be serving up this cloud
| goodness? Unix, BSD, Linux ... all secure, all ready to scale for any sized
| job.
|
| Pretty scary ... for Microsoft.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3731186
IBM-Google partnership merges best features of Internet and corporate
computing, IBM exec says
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| Isn’t it an advantage to be more diversified, or would you rather rely on a
| huge cash cow like Windows?
|
| Diversity is generally viewed as an advantage. We think it is. On the other
| hand, having a monopoly has its advantages too. What more could you say? They
| make an enormous amount of money on Office and Windows. They have a very low
| cost of sales, relatively modest amount of development. It’s enormously
| profitable. And that’s the characteristic of a monopoly, which you’re allowed
| to have. You’re just not allowed to abuse them.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/020708-mills.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Is Red Hat's New Development Environment Destined for an Amazon or IBM Cloud?
,----[ Quote ]
| So who will be the one to move their tools environment to the Amazon cloud
| first? Perhaps Amazon will offer several tools options, such as one for web
| apps and mashups, and another (or two) for Java development? You know you
| want to, Jeff.
`----
http://seekingalpha.com/article/56865-is-red-hat-s-new-development-environment-destined-for-an-amazon-or-ibm-cloud?source=yahoo
Aiming for the Clouds: The Red Hat Q&A
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| Q: To get back to the original question, what is your assessment of the
| potential impact?
|
| A: It’s early, but November’s news was a good indication that innovation
| amongst economic models and deployment scenarios is still possible. Not to
| dismiss the importance of some of the new features of RHEL 5.1, but over the
| longer term I think AOS and the Cloud offering are far more important than
| mere bells and whistles, because they make Red Hat a competitor in markets
| where its penetration is currently low. Even if it’s success in those areas,
| then, is minimal, the news remains very significant.
`----
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/11/19/redhat_cloud/
Will the biggest clouds stay open source?
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| Everyone wants to become Google these days. In a way.
|
| Google runs Linux.
|
| A lot of enterprises, from banking to health care, are now looking to deploy
| gigantic Internet-facing applications to customer sets numbering in the tens
| of millions. (Government, too.)
|
| The biggest and best IT system suppliers are gearing up for what they
| call “cloud” computing. IBM floated its offering today.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1684
Xcerion's Internet Cloud Forms Over Google and Microsoft
,----[ Quote ]
| If successful, it may be able to further erode the power Microsoft
| derives from control of the desktop, to beat Google at its
| software-as-a-service play, and to make commodity Linux boxes more
| viable as a computing platform for the masses.
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=R2FGBWGYKLN5OQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197700815&queryText=xml
http://tinyurl.com/ynkp9q
IBM's Blue Cloud: The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT as Service
,----[ Quote ]
| IBM's Blue Cloud, arriving in the first half of 2008, will use IBM
| BladeCenter servers, a Linux operating system, Xen-based virtualization and
| the company's own Tivoli management software.
`----
http://seekingalpha.com/article/54406-ibm-s-blue-cloud-the-tipping-point-for-enterprise-it-as-service?source=yahoo
IBM to turn datacenters into 'computing cloud'
,----[ Quote
| IBM is calling the initiative Blue Cloud, and compared its significance to
| its decision several years ago to throw its weight behind Linux, which helped
| the open-source OS become more widely accepted by corporations.
`----
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071115/tc_infoworld/93434
Red Hat Pits Itself Against VMware
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| Red Hat’s new goal is to underpin 50% of the world’s servers by 2015.
|
| And since virtualization is projected to take over the world by then that’s a
| lot of Xen virtualization – and there’s no extra cost in it like there is
| with VMware since it’s bundled with RHEL. (Red Hat’s telling people they’ll
| save $20,000-$30,000 a server.)
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http://www.clientservernews.com/
RHEL just tripled the size of its ISV ecosystem!
,----[ Quote ]
| Through that series of announcements, Red Hat is lining up its complete RHEL
| strategy and making it clear that it can fit all deployment scenarios -
| traditional or emerging - through the exact same RHEL bits. That proves the
| flexibility of RHEL as a distribution and also factually multiplies the size
| of RHEL’s ecosystem by further enabling all existing RHEL’s ISV on two new
| emerging scenarios, Virtual Appliances and Cloud Computing. While that might
| seem like a trivial statement, it is far from the truth. Just look at VMWare
| for example: while they are getting great traction in the virtualization
| field, it is going to be very difficult for them to enter the two emerging
| fields discussed above, as they have a pretty much empty ISV ecosystem today.
| And you don’t build an ISV ecosystem overnight (you can partner with one or
| acquire one, but not build one overnight).
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http://sacha.labourey.com/2007/11/14/rhel-just-tripled-the-size-of-its-isv-ecosystem/
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