Steve Wilson sur Twitter : "Cloud Computing in Hyderabad candid photo #india #candid #cloud #cloudcomputing... Two Years Of OpenStack: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. By Krishnan Subramanian on July 24, 2012 OpenStack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week at OSCON (CloudAve Coverage), OpenStack project (previous CloudAve coverage) celebrated its second birthday with much fanfare. Even though I missed the OpenStack day at the conference, I did get a chance to talk to OpenStack team, developers, practitioners, well wishers, etc. during the event.
I think it is time to do a reality check on the project and, for a moment, I am taking out my open source evangelist hat. Before I talk about the good, the bad and the ugly, I want to wish a very happy birthday to OpenStack and I also hope that the project thrives big so that the future of infrastructure market is a federated cloud ecosystem (something I have been advocating for years now). The Good Excitement about the project is unabated. The Bad The last point in the previous section is the first point in this section. The Ugly Krishnan Subramanian Director, OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat. How Cloud Computing Is Forcing IT Evolution CIO. CIO — I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week's Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interesting, offering a good perspective on just how dramatic an effect cloud computing is having on IT.
Summed up, the capability and agility of cloud computing is forcing an extremely rapid evolution. In a sense, these effects are akin to what would happen to an established living ecosystem were significant change to occur within. One could expect to see existing species be stressed by the development of new characteristics in the ecosystem, forcing them to adapt rapidly to survive. Those that fail to adapt will, inevitably, dwindle into extinction. Cloud Allows for Data Center Scale Two of the presentations at the Cloud Connect conference addressed how organizations are transforming data centers as a result of the need for scale and density. Switch is an exemplar of the new breed of data center operator. Continue Reading. The failure of Jane Crow and the “separate but equal” doctrine in technology. The concept of “separate but equal” is not an unknown one, particularly not in the United States. The belief that any group can be segregated from the whole based on specific physical characteristics and yet remain equal to other groups is one that has been firmly rejected for many years.
Yet while we laud the significance of movements and court cases throughout recent history that have successfully argued that such isolationist doctrine is ipso facto unequal in many industries, we continue to create just such “separate but equal” organizations. Then we wonder why they are not successful in creating leaders and generating opportunity for their members.
One of the little-known court cases that led to desegregation in the United States in the mid 20th century was a 1950’s case, Sweatt v. Painter. The field of technology seems an unlikely one in which to argue we are repeating history to the same effect. The focus of most women’s groups in technology has been on women, not technology. Europe to issue tough new data-protection rules soon. Jaspersoft aims its open-source analytics suite at PaaS developers | Application Development. Open source BI (business intelligence) vendor Jaspersoft wants its software to become another arrow in the quiver for developers using commercial PaaS (platform as a service) offerings. The community edition of Jaspersoft's suite is now available on Red Hat's OpenShift and CloudForms services, the company said Thursday. Another announcement with VMWare is coming soon. [ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in InfoWorld editors' 21-page Cloud Computing Deep Dive PDF special report. | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. ] Rather than a packaged SaaS offering, Jaspersoft's move is meant to give developers using those services an easy way to add embedded analytics to their applications, said Karl Van den Bergh, vice president of products and alliances.
Jaspersoft plans to target other PaaSes, initially ones that are "Java-centric," as Jaspersoft is under the covers, he said.
IaaS. PaaS. SaaS.