Cloud and Dependability
In future, large-scale Internet-based service deployments (/cough cloud), the current and contemporary issues beneath it encountered by consumers will and must be tackled. Current Internet services are not a “cure-all” and are not fully cognisant of end-user requirements, especially for enterprises and mission critical applications. Current Internet services operate on a “best-effort” basis: there is [...]
Adventures in Cloud Interop
Back in May I attended (and presented on OCCI to ISO SC38) the DMTF’s APTS in Boulder Colorado and out of those excellent sessions came a whitepaper that detailed how contemporary cloud standards of OCCI, OVF and CDMI could work together and bring much needed interoperability and portability to the cloud world. That whitepaper is now published as an [...]
Cloud Interoperability
As the proliferation of cloud services increases due to their many advantages, many small and large enterprises across many sectors are eagerly attempting to leverage this contemporary approach to IT. As the cloud services market place grows what soon occurs is there are many different service offerings of the same type. Yet many of these [...]
So much to read, so little time
The great thing about the web, is all the great minds out there. So much to read! This is just my persistent google reader list of things to read, including tabs. Heaven forbid I display my instapaper account and all of my papers that I’ve finally organised using the fabulous Papers2 (just recently released – btw: there’s [...]
OCCI Helping Integrate SLA@SOI and RESERVOIR
Foreword: I found this mysteriously hanging about as an unpublished draft, so it’s better published than not. Background: For a period of months, SLA@SOI and RESERVOIR have been collaborating with a goal of architectural and technical integration. Both SLA@SOI and RESERVOIR are each multi-million Euro funded projects under the European Framework Programme 7. Collaboration activities [...]