Juan J. Martínez used to talk here about Open Source and Other Things.
This is a blog in archive mode, you can read new posts at en_GB@blog
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From Opening the Rackspace Cloud.
Rackspace makes its cloud infrastructure open source! The site of the project is OpenStack.
I read from David Lutterkort blog that Deltacloud Core goes to the Incubator.
Deltacloud it’s an abstraction layer that provides an uniform API to deal with different cloud providers, supporting EC2, GoGrind, OpenNebula, RackSpace, RimuHosting, etc; and obviously RHEV-M, because Deltacloud was initiated by Red Hat as open source project.
According to Lutterkort, a lot of people liked the idea of a OSS cloud API, but they weren’t happy with it being a Red Hat project. To fix that, Deltacloud it’s now an ASF Incubator project, and in the future most likely will become a full Apache Software Foundation project.
With all the recent open core debate, it’s very interesting this move from Red Hat: you don’t like us to have control over a 100% open source project, so we’re donating it to ASF. Brilliant.
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From What Will Kill The Cloud?
It’s a worth reading article, and the quoted text is quite enlightening for me: with cloud computing we’re going back to the datacenter, its bureaucracy, and the control of the companies that own the clouds.
Don’t you agree with me that the cloud computing era (or call it SaaS) will result in less freedom for us (the users), do you?
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From Cómo montamos Menéame en Amazon EC2 (Spanish).
Ricardo Galli explains in the post the migration of meneame.net (the Spanish Digg-alike website) to Amazon EC2, and the new architecture of the service.
The quote says:
[…]It would cost us just a little more than Acens -their previous ISP- (but less than other offerings) but it would give us more flexibility and reliability, so we decided to do the migration.
More flexibility and reliability for a little extra cost. Good point for cloud computing.
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From Powering the Cloud Ecosystem
by Michael Ferris (session held on Red Hat Virtual Experience 2009).
Just in case you need an alternate definition to Cloud Computing Plain and Simple.
The Franklin Street Statement (named for the FSF’s office address) is something like a definition of what should be a free service, as a network service that it’s the result of free software and which shares free data.
Overall I like the idea, although I don’t think some parts are a good idea (we hope to work with organizations including the FSF to provide moral and technical leadership on this issue
; I’d have liked it better being just in the open source arena… is there a definition for a open service?).
Yes, I endorse the Franklin Street Statement.
Anyway, you have to pay for anything. It’s not only a technical definition but a billing strategy. It would be nice if you could implement a little cloud to use it yourself, wouldn’t it?
