On Wednesday (April 14th), Ross Cooney and I organised and held the second CloudCamp Dublin. The event was kindly hosted by Microsoft in their great venue in Sandyford. The event had over 80 attendees from a large variety of backgrounds. Notably this time, there was a large number of people from the provider market-section. Following [...]
I originally posted this over on the SLA@SOI blog. (PS: apologies for the strange capitalisation, it in fact should be emboldened – seems to be a “feature” of my current theme) The Open Virtualisation Format (OVF; DSP0243) is a schema for describing a virtual machine or a collection of virtual machines. The initiative is the [...]
Sam Johnston posted a nice useful layered model of current cloud computing. Simon Wardley on the OCCI mailing list noted a brief history of the terms used back in 2007 so I thought I’d compare the two below. Everything that is old is new…