Cloud Management

Should Cloud Management be delivered as a SaaS application?

What is OpenStack?

The OpenStack Summit took place a couple weeks ago in Portland to announce the "Grizzly" (G) release and to begin the design activities for the "Havana" (H) release (due in Fall 2013)....

Software-Defined vs. Services-Defined

Is “Build Your Own Cloud” the new IT Gym Membership?

Understanding Cloud Computing Forecasts

10 Questions for the 2013 OpenStack Summit in Portland

Extending the Concept of “Application Tiering” to Cloud

While the discussion about Cloud Computing has evolved over the past few years, far too often it still devolves into a semi-religious debate about Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud. Traditional IT viewpoints say that security and reliability should rule the day, while more progressive viewpoints...

Some Simple SDN Use-Cases

Even though I have deeply ingrained networking DNA from having worked many years at Cisco, I've tried to avoid writing about SDN too much. Does it get a lot of hype? Yes. Is it...

Be Aware of Your Cloud Computing Costs

Several years ago, it wasn't unusual to hear people say that public cloud computing was significantly cheaper that trying to build a private cloud computing environment. This was mostly because people would see the cost/hour (in USD pennies) and immediately think this was significantly less than...

Is IT the Last Major Open-Source Project?

Traditionally, internal IT organizations have leveraged proprietary software and public Internet services have been built using open-source software. Some of this behavior was driven by legacy...