Category Archives: Cloud

When someone sells you a software-defined product, for example software-defined networking, software-defined storage, a software-defined data center, etc, what she sells you is a controller made with software. This controller “sits” between the hardware and you. When I write “you”, … Continue reading →

Title: About those that use Gmail Alternative title: There are people that use Gmail and prefer it to Hotmail

Title: Users switching from Gmail to Hotmail Alternative title: Hotmail sign in page picture of users’ reactions

Now I am confused. Is it SkyDrive or SkyDive?

Citrix is in need of an open source cloud operating system for its upcoming cloud computing offering. In other words, Citrix plans to offer cloud computing services and it needs open source software that will implement, deliver and manage these … Continue reading →

When refering to public and private clouds, people consider as public the clouds that their resources are located in the cloud hosting provider’s data center and are leased to organizations, whereas people consider private the clouds that their resources are … Continue reading →

From http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/appliance/ I learned that service providers, large enterprises and governments can deploy the Windows Azure Platform Appliance in their own datacenters and that the Windows Azure Platform Appliance consists of Windows Azure, SQL Azure and a Microsoft-specified configuration of … Continue reading →

This is the third post (and hopefully the last) of my opinions about the cloud (the other two posts were “Hosted services with a vengeance” and “Redefining the whole networking paradigm”). By now you must be reeeeeeeeeally tired reading from … Continue reading →

On December 17, 2008, I wrote a post titled “Hosted services with a vengeance“. In that post, I argued that hosted services are not trying to fool us by changing their name to Cloud Services, but they provide new options … Continue reading →