Author Archives: Thorsten
OpenStack: game changing open source cloud platform
Today RackSpace announced that it is open-sourcing it’s cloud platform, i.e. the code that powers CloudServers and CloudFiles, at openstack.org. We’ve been working with RackSpace for quite a while and have also participated in this new initiative at a workshop … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Rackspace
Tagged Cloud Computing, Openstack, Rackspace
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VMops rebrands to Cloud.com and open sources
Pretty bold move by VMops! They evidently bought the cloud.com domain and are rebranding to Cloud.com on the occasion of their new release, now called CloudStack 2.0, which they’re also open-sourcing at open.cloud.com. With this they’re joining the open source … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud.com, EC2, Eucalyptus
Tagged Cloud Computing, Cloud.com, VMware
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Accelerating Cloud Adoption
Over the past weeks we’ve been releasing a number of new features in response to numerous requests from our user base to broaden the reach of the RightScale platform. Just today we launched support for Amazon’s new Singapore region, see … Continue reading
RightScale Meetup next week and iPad contest
We’re holding our second RightScale Meetup next week: April 21st in New York, in conjunction with Cloud-Expo. The first one was really exciting with a lot of information for the attendees and well as feedback for us, so I’m looking … Continue reading
Thoughts about the Amazon Simple Notification Service
Amazon just released a new service, the Simple Notification Service (SNS), which is a distributed message delivery service roughly similar to AMQP or JMS message services. It uses a publish-subscribe paradigm and supports push delivery of notifications using HTTP and … Continue reading
Benchmarking Load Balancers in the Cloud
Load balancing is one of the technologies that virtually all our customers are using within EC2, and there is an increasing set of options available for doing it. We’ve been giving advice to our customers for years on what we’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, EC2
Tagged Benchmark, Cloud, Cloud Computing, EC2, Load Balancer
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RightScale ServerTemplates Explained
One of the distinguishing features of RightScale is that from day one we’ve focused on automating the configuration management of servers. The reason is simple: you can’t get the benefits of the cloud if you have to spend a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, EC2
Tagged Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, RightScale, ServerTemplate
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Top Cloud API Sins
… while I’m at it, I might as well… Here is a short list of the top poor design decisions that I’ve seen in cloud APIs. Let me rephrase that… Here’s a short list of the top API features that … Continue reading
Cloud API requirements
Adrian wrote an interesting post on cloud APIs and whether a standard cloud API makes sense or not. I’m still of the opinion that there is too much diversity out there and that the time is not ripe yet. There … Continue reading
Amazon Consolidated Billing and Reserved Instances
Amazon added consolidated billing a couple of days ago. It allows you to consolidate multiple accounts onto a single bill so your credit card only gets one hefty charge instead of many smaller ones from all the accounts you might … Continue reading
