May 3, 2013 2:42 PM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Amazon,
AWS,
cloud computing,
Cloud Management,
Cloud Operations,
Hybrid Cloud,
IaaSEarlier this week I wrote an article about what I was looking forward to at the AWS Summit in San Francisco. Now that the conference is behind me I wanted to provide some feedback on the event and...
April 29, 2013 3:15 PM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Amazon,
AWS,
cloud computing,
Cloud Management,
Cloud OperationsAs I'm writing this I'm on a plane bound for this week's AWS Summit in San Francisco. Even though AWS is not what I would consider an "Open Cloud" by any stretch of the imagination, I do find the operations aspects of AWS very...
April 27, 2013 12:30 AM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Cloud Applications,
cloud computing,
Cloud Operations,
Open Clouds,
OpenShift,
PaaS,
Red HatI had some great conversations with the Red Hat folks at the OpenStack Summit last week. Even though the focus of the event was around IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and OpenStack specifically, I sat down with the Red Hat OpenShift PaaS...
April 26, 2013 6:25 PM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Cloud Applications,
cloud computing,
Cloud Management,
Cloud Operations,
IaaS,
Open Clouds,
OpenStack,
PaaS,
Red HatYes, I know this is a little late, it's been a long week...
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April 10, 2013 10:58 AM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Amazon,
AWS,
Cloud Applications,
cloud computing,
Cloud Management,
Cloud Operations,
CloudStack,
Google,
Hybrid Cloud,
IaaS,
Open Clouds,
OpenStack,
PaaS,
RackSpace,
VMwareI've been having some great discussions with customers recently that led to this interesting title. Too many customers are looking for "THE Cloud" (as in the one and only technical solution) and want to know how to compare one cloud against another. Because they are looking for...
March 28, 2013 1:04 PM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Cloud Applications,
cloud computing,
Cloud OperationsI have become very dependent on Cloud Computing in my daily life. Let me start with an explanation of that statement and then I'll explain the light bulb moment (panic attack) I had recently. I have developed a policy of any application that I use must store my data somewhere in "the cloud". I...
March 28, 2013 4:26 AM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Cloud Applications,
cloud computing,
Cloud Management,
Cloud Operations,
Open CloudsI’m often asked if cloud computing provides so many great benefits, why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of cloud computing throughout the entire organization? To answer this question let’s step back for a moment and explore why and how most organizations develop and operate their...
March 21, 2013 3:48 AM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Amazon,
AWS,
cloud computing,
Cloud Management,
Cloud Operations,
Google,
HP,
IaaS,
Open Clouds,
OpenStack,
RackSpace,
VMwareA few news articles and a podcast that posted over the last few weeks got me thinking about how open clouds are today.
How "open" are clouds of any type these days? Let's take a look at a few examples and see where they stand:
"Closed Clouds" - Amazon / Google / VMware -...
March 12, 2013 10:13 PM
Posted by: Aaron Delp
Cloud Applications,
cloud computing,
Cloud Management,
Cloud Operations,
Consolidation,
IaaS,
Noisy Neighbor,
Open CloudsWhile speaking on a Cloud Computing panel recently for some government centric customers the concept of cloud consolidation impact came up. We explored this topic for a bit and I believe the resulting outcome was worth sharing.
One of the many advantages of cloud computing today is the...
