Position Paper: Five Attributes Of Enterprise Cloud Applications

Abstract: In this position paper, we define the five core attributes of a modern enterprise cloud application which includes Simplicity, Cloud Scale Architecture, Open APIs, Mobile Platform Support and Social Awareness. We expect this definition to help organizations differentiate between a true cloud application from a cloud-washed application. Such an understanding will help enterprises to [...]

Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond

In the beginning of this year, I wrote about my plans to divide my writings here into briefs, insights and research reports. My first report was supposed to have come up in the beginning of January but various reasons lead to delaying the completion. Even though it is a bit late now to talk about [...]

Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?

Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is th…

Some Observations On Google’s Mobile Strategy

Today, Techmeme is full of news coming from Google’s Mobile press event. The two interesting announcement from Google areA way to instantly send links, maps, etc. to Android phones from desktops. It is a clever interplay between three Google properties…

OSCON Week: Microsoft And Interoperability

Using Microsoft and Interoperability in the same sentence makes me chuckle every time. Well, partly it could be due to my open source bias and I am not denying that. Off late, Microsoft has been making half-hearted attempts to embrace open source. I us…

OSCON Week: Cloud Summit

The highlight of this year’s OSCON is a stronger focus on issues related to cloud computing. This was evident from a full day event in the form of Cloud Summit on this topic. This event was organized by Simon Wardley, formerly of Canonical and now a …

OSCON Week: Openstack.org, A Game Changer?

Yesterday, we saw the announcement by Rackspace that they have joined hands with NASA and 25 other companies to create Openstack.org, an open source cloud community. Rackspace also announced that they are open sourcing their entire cloud stack and give…