Early on, Amazon EC2 was recognized as the leading IaaS provider because of their ability to easily provision new virtual machines with a variety of configurations (size, speed, attachments, etc.) Virtual machines are a powerful, yet simple tool for en…

I’ve been asking some people in the industry a real simple question, “Is Cloud Foundry a Platform as a Service”?The obvious answer would seem to be “yes” – after all, VMware told us it’s a PaaS:That should be the end of it, right? For some reason, when…

Derick Harris asks the question, “Will cultural pushback kill private clouds?” His questioning comes from a piece provided by Lydia Leong where she notes that many enterprises have fat management structures and aren’t organized like many of the leaner …

The analysts at Saugatuck Technology recently wrote a note on “Cloud IT Failures Emphasize Need for Expectation Management”. One comment caught my attention:
“Recall that the availability of a group of components is the product of all of the individual…

Redhat recently announced an upgraded version of OpenShift with exciting new features including support for Java EE6, Membase, MongoDB and more. See details at: https://www.redhat.com/openshift/blogs/whats-new-in-openshift-august-2011
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One of the primary benefits of a cloud computing environment is the increased automation. The Provisioning Service is perhaps the core mechanism to deliver this. To better understand the kinds of things we might orchestrate, take a look at the followin…

Cloud provisioning has focused on the rapid acquisition and initialization of a new server, disk or some other piece of infrastructure. Provisioning a single piece of infrastructure is now quite easy. Provisioning an entire set is much more complicated…

Are Enterprise Architects Intimidated by the Cloud? EA’s are often the champion of large change initiatives that span multiple business units. If they’re not on board – we’ve got problems. Here’s why I ask the question:1. It’s my perception (perhaps in…

The most recent version of Cloud.com is now offering a ‘bridge’ for the core AWS EC2 services:”CloudBridge provides a compatibility layer for CloudStack cloud computing software that tools designed for Amazon Web Services with CloudStack.The CloudBridg…

Last week, I had an interesting discussion with a product owner at an ISV. We discussed his offering; it was core plumbing-middleware-kind-of-stuff. When I asked about how he differentiated his offering from others on the market the answer was that the…

In the early days of cloud computing emphasis was placed on ‘one size fits all’. However, as our delivery capabilities have increased, we’re now able to deliver more product variations where some products provide the same function (e.g., storage) but d…

The Tough Auto Scaling Service is our offering to enable the automated scaling of an application tier at runtime. System data collected by a monitoring service provides the intelligence to provision or deprovision resources according to SLA’s. Out of t…

The Tough Cloud Monitoring solution is our next generation offering targeting virtualized workloads, as well as PaaS services, housed in either traditional data centers or private cloud environments. By monitoring, we mean ‘health and performance’ moni…

Last week, MomentumSI announced the availability of our Tough Load Balancing Service along with a Cloud Monitoring and Auto Scaling solution. The concept of load balancing has been around for decades – so nothing too new there. However, applying the ‘a…

For some time now, I’ve been watching cloud architects consider their strategy for deploying wide-scale Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Many of my friends are quick to draw the standard Gartner cloud stack (SaaS, PaaS followed by IaaS). And althoug…

Today, Amazon released their latest offering, CloudFormation. Simply put, CloudFormation is the service we’ve all been waiting for. The entire topology of an application can be described including the images, storage, security, load-balancing, auto-sca…

Phil – You know I love hyperbole as much as the next guy, but come on… discrediting the private cloud?? (and to those who aren’t aware – I’ve corresponded with Phil for just over 7 years and have a sincere respect for him… but that doesn’t mean I w…

Why self-service private cloud?Improved agility — Deployment cycles shrink from months to minutes, making IT far more responsive to business lines and other internal customers.Reduced capital expense — Utilization of hardware capacity improves dram…

Application performance engineering is a discipline encompassing expertise, tools, and methodologies to ensure that applications meet their non-functional performance requirements. Performance engineering has understandably become more complex with the…

Here’s a few quick links:The MomentumSI SOA Manifesto from 2007:http://schneider.blogspot.com/2007/10/enterprise-soa-manifesto.htmlOur discussion forum on the 2009 SOA Manifesto:http://www.SOAManifesto.comThe 2009 SOA Manifesto:http://www.SOA-Manifesto…

Expropriated Reuse is a form of reuse that focuses on the here and now. The goal isn’t to define some new service and hope for ‘accidental reuse’ or even to put forward a case for ‘planned reuse’. Instead, it’s the act of going out and find…

In my last post, I argued that the concept of ‘accidental services’ or ‘build it and they will come’ is a bad idea – because … they typically don’t come. Services that are created with a very specific consumer in mind are typically limit…

“Accidental Reuse” is a term that I’ve been throwing around a lot lately. In layman’s terms, it means, “If you build it, they will come.” This notion has been disproved in virtually every field (except in the Field of Dreams) – and I suggest it is even…

SOE isn’t dead but my primary go-forward blog will be:http://cloudv.blogspot.com

From the Barack Obama campaign site:”Obama will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure …

It looks like RightScale is going to be a ‘multi-cloud management suite’, see;http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/10/using_the_cloud_to_build_highl.html#comment-2061

In March of 2008, RedMonk analyst, James Governor, submitted his list of “15 Ways to Tell if it’s not Cloud Computing”. The consultants at MomentumSI have found 16 corrections:

It was my pleasure to be a guest on the Real World SOA Podcast with David Linthicum. Take a peek:http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2008/10/my_conversation.htmlTopics:- How do we help organizations with SOA?- What is the purpose of a SOA…

Recently, there’s been more chatter about how (or if) you should talk to the business about SOA. Yesterday, I sat in on the SOA Consortium conference call where this was the main theme. Interestingly, the moderator posed the questions and a couple part…

If you haven’t already checked out Amy Shuen’s book, “Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide”, you should grab a copy; it’s worth the read. Amy discusses the trends around Web 2.0 in the clearest, most concise manner I could have hoped for. Enough bragging about he…

Imagine for a moment that Olympics took place in China – and all the world came out to watch. You’re with a shoe company called Puma, who for many years hid in the shadow of branding giant Nike. But this Olympics you made some interesting bets, inc…

Imagine for a moment that a Microsoft research group finished a beta version of a project that they had dubbed ‘Photosynth’. Their pet project was to allow users to create panoramic virtual environments by using regular 2-D digital cameras. Users w…

Imagine for a moment that an online ‘virtual book store’, called Shelfari, created a widget that displayed pictures and descriptions of the widget owners favorite books. These widgets could then be embedded inside of blogs and social networks so th…

Joe McKendrick is one of my favorite bloggers over at ZDNet. However, I’ve found some of his stuff to be a bit hum drum. That is, until I found his ‘secret’ posting site…Joe 2.0 (like Jeff 2.0), is spending much more time thinking, writing and talkin…

The time of death for the corporate data center was pronounced at 11:03EST, August 21st of 2008. Forensic pathologists continue to investigate the death, however, it is known that the patient had stability issues, persistent hemorrhaging and had been c…

I recently had a conversation with one of my good friends at IBM. He had mentioned that IBM is doing a better job of differentiating between “Business SOA” and “I.T. SOA”. Interesting… what did he mean? After drilling him with questions it came down …

I just noticed that Richard Holcomb is new CEO at StrikeIron, see:http://www.strikeiron.com/company/management.aspxStrikeIron has been pioneers in the ‘Data as a Service’ space for some time. Congratulations!

At MomentumSI, we keep a close eye on the various RFP’s that are issued relating to SOA. Yesterday, one caught my attention, and I’d love to hear from the blogging community on what they think.The issuer is the Rhode Island Administration of State Cour…

I’ve been sending out emails and making some phone calls asking a simple question. How are companies prioritizing the various aspects of SOA Governance, using the following categories:A. Plan Time Governance – Ensuring that business initiatives aligned…

Programming COBOL on the mainframe was the preferred platform of the generation before me. Don’t get me wrong, I did my fair share. I did it, but I remember thinking that it was “my fathers platform”. I was a PC guy. When it was time to develop some ne…

David Linthicum accurately assesses my feelings:http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2008/07/esbs_on_trial.html”I think Jeff may be a bit grumpy from even having to respond to this. However, once again, as I mentioned in my previous post, …

Several people have sent me the latest Linthicum article on the back channel. People are asking if I agree… http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2008/07/are_esbs_hurtin.htmlDave comments:First, if there is indeed “enterprise architecture…