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Cloud Foundry Overview , a View by Chris.

by Roger Lund April 19, 2011

written by Roger Lund

Cloud Foundry Overview

A brief look at Cloud Foundry shows it can support multiple frameworks, multiple cloud providers (public and private), and multiple application services all on a cloud scale platform. It was delivered recently by the global leader in virtualization, VMware, and is available today.

After reading the press release of Cloud Foundry, it seems that the clouds framework is becoming more advanced by the day. Just recently they announced a new cloud service, open source PaaS (platform as a service), known as Micro Cloud. Thousands have gathered at the live VMware event showing of this new exciting service. The best thing about cloud foundry is you get to choose your framework, choose your cloud and choose your application services which make this service very versatile.

Early versions of PaaS have shown to be very limiting to frameworks, applications and basically locking developers into restricted movement for everything accessible.

Now there will multiple delivery models of the new Cloud Foundry: New VMware Operated Developer Service, Open Source, Community PaaS Project, New Cloud Foundry Micro Cloud and Cloud Foundry for the Enterprise and Service Providers. All of these services are well versed in open technology, and is extremely essential to all forms of Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry has a basic open architecture that promotes additional programming frameworks to be rapidly supported in the future.

Initially this service will support MySQL, Redis and MongoDB databases.

“Cloud Foundry’s open architecture and community process will enable developers to enjoy PaaS productivity and simplicity while extending the technology to their specific needs.” (Rod Johnson, SVP – VMware).

This looks very interesting and it will go a long way in the cloud computing services.

References/Resources:

http://www.vmware.com/

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/cloud-foundry-apr2011.html

Blog Links:

Cloud Foundry — Delivering on VMware’s “Open PaaS” Strategy

http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2011/04/cloud-foundry-delivering-on-vmwares-open-paas-strategy.html

“In the development area, we are focusing on simplifying application creation, deployment, and operations via an approach we call open platform-as-a-service, or “Open PaaS”.

“Steve, please be advised I am the owner of the trademarks “Open Platform as a Service” Open PaaS” and OPaaS — Now I read that VMware has also invented the “worlds first open platform as a service”… two days ago.”

Launching Cloud Foundry, The Industry’s First Open PaaS

http://blog.springsource.com/2011/04/12/launching-cloud-foundry/

“Cloud Foundry: an open source “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) from VMware allowing easy deployment of applications written using Spring, Rails and other modern frameworks.”

“Cloud Foundry eliminates time spent installing and configuring infrastructure such as application servers and JVMs.”

Christopher Foderick — IT/VMware Intern

Editor’s note; Nice job Chris. I encourage your writing, find a style that seems to fit and build on it. While , I am not by profession, someone that is directly effected by the above’s offering, I think it could have a large effect on business. It is a spirited move by all parties.

To the reader’s, please post any feedback for Chris, and don’t be to harsh, as it is his first blog post.

Roger L

April 19, 2011 0 comments

SafeCopy: My answer to the Mozy changes?

by Philip Sellers February 10, 2011

written by Philip Sellers

I got a comment on my recent Mozy post which offered SafeCopy as an alternative to Mozy. When my current subscription to Mozy ends, I’m certainly in the market for a more favorable solution to meet my needs. Mozy’s new plans, in my opinion, do not offer enough space for the price they charge and they limit the number of computers that can connect to an account . I’d never heard of SafeCopy and so I headed to their website to check them out.

First, SafeCopy looks a lot like Mozy on the surface. I immediately see that they are cross platform with both Windows and Mac compatibility, but they also list iPhone. Digging a bit deeper, I have found that SafeCopy also has a search engine feature for finding and retrieving your data online and thus all your files are from the iPhone or other mobile phone. I have to say, the Google-style search for my backup is cool. The online demo shows that you can see versioning of the individual files, also. Like Mozy, the backups are encrypted. SafeCopy uses 448-bit Blowfish encryption according to their website.

February 10, 2011 0 comments

Cloud

Mozy nixes unlimited backups; disappoints with lack of tools to manage data

by Philip Sellers February 1, 2011

written by Philip Sellers

I have relied on Mozy backup for a few years now. I really like their online backup service. I’ve been a proponent of Mozy for a long time and I’ve written about their service several times on my blog. But this morning, I found out that they had changed the rules of the game and removed the unlimited backup offering. This is a big deal to me, but probably not to most users. This change probably only affects the top 10% of their users, but I could be wrong.

First, lets start with what they changed. Mozy moved from a backup plan of about $50 per year, per computer to a plan of $5.99 per month for 50 GB and one computer or $9.99 per month for 125 GB and up to three computers.

February 1, 2011 5 comments

Apple Cloud Home Tech

IP to the TV: a random collection of thoughts

by Philip Sellers August 11, 2010

written by Philip Sellers

Its a very interesting time for the ole’ television. For the majority of my life, and probably the lives of many older than me, TV has not changed much. Sure, there was that big transition from black and white to color, but since then, TV has been largely the same. In recent years, a big push of innovation has been directed towards the TV marketplace. The advent of plasma and LCD has brought about flat panel TV’s, high definition clarity and broadcast, the decommission of analog signal, the introduction of LED for “green” sets, and now the push for IP delivery for shows and movies.

August 11, 2010 1 comment

Cloud Virtualization

VMworld 2009 First Day keynote notes

by Philip Sellers September 1, 2009

written by Philip Sellers

Notes and things of interest from first day keynote:

12,448 attendees at this year’s VMworld – down from last year in Las Vegas
Tod Nielson, VMware COO, challenged partners last year to try and recruit any of the 40 Fortune 1000 companies not using VMware to purchase VMware – 10 companies were recurited and those partners were rewarded with free passes to this year’s VMworld – not a bad challenge. The same offer is extended to partners who can recruit any of the remaining 30 Fortune 1000 companies not using VMware.
Paul Maritz, President and CEO, takes the stage – talking about cloud initiatives
Martiz talks about how VMware has been driving capital expenditure savings and now also operational expenditure savings.
Talks about the growing family of vCenter products, including Chargeback, Capacity IQ, Orchestrator, SRM, ConfigControl, etc.
Commitment to small business – showed off the IT in a Box solution targeted at small business.
Also targeted it small to medium business – VMware Go announced – service offering for users of the free ESXi product to quickly configure and deploy ESXi for their uses – a way to engage the community which is tapping into free ESX offering.
vCloud Express – a service offering from cloud providers (like Terramark, who demo’d) to quickly and easily provision VM’s in the cloud all based on VMware’s vSphere platform. At rates starting at about 3 cents per hour – or about $40 per month, its a good cost judging from my web hosting days… and its all protected like any other vSphere cluster. I’d certainly pay those prices! I have a friend who runs a hosting company in mind that I may mention this offering to…
We also saw a demo of the PC over IP technology that has been developed. TELUS demo’d and discussed their company all over a PCoIP connection – and it looked flawless.
Last, but not least, Martiz addressed the recent acquisition of SpringSource. As soon as the demo began for this and source code appeared on screen, the flood gates open and people began leaving in mass.
SpringSource’s Rod Johnson took the stage for the demo and showed off SpringSource’s customized Eclipse framework which now offers a Deploy to internal cloud, Deploy to external cloud or Deploy to the local – aka the “very private cloud”.
The integration to deploy to cloud looked, to me, like Macromedia’s half-baked solutions for deploying code in Dreamweaver – it never really does the best job you could on your own – and probably not what a developer really wants – but good for a novice without a sys admin.
Glossed over was SpringSource’s Hyperic offering, though Martiz did remark that he thought this is what monitoring will look like in the future – and I agree. If only they could do it agentless – somehow leveraging ESX instead of agents – fingers crossed.

September 1, 2009 0 comments