Below is a list of articles I found interesting over the last two weeks and some commentary on what I see going on in the industry. I'm still not 100% on the format so let me know what you like and want to see changed.
Events & Misc. Links
- Portability: No Snowflakes For You - David Nalley put together an awesome post on how thinking about portability and how you may be doing it wrong. Best article I've read in awhile and addresses a concern I see over and over again.
- AWS Summit 2013 Announced - I'll be attending the San Francisco event as well as the Boot Camps and hope to blog while I'm there
- Monkigras 2013 Videos Posted - If you want to see some awesome presentations, go check this out. A must attend event to say the least
- The first Triangle (as in the Raleigh & RTP area) OpenStack Meetup is this week
- Simon's On Structure - Another great and thought provoking article by Simon. Are you a Pioneer, Settler, or City Planner?
- Bay Area CloudStack Meetup Recap
- Apache CloudStack Weekly Update - I subscribe to the AWS, OpenStack, and CloudStack Weekly Updates so I can follow as much as possible. The CloudStack Weekly Update is new so I wanted to highlight it here
- RightScale first to sell Google Compute - GigaOm & DataCenter Dynamics Links
Amazon News
Amazon continues to steam ahead but the last few announcements have been very interesting. In their quest to add more value (and lock-in) to their ecosystem, a bunch of small companies with products built around their cloud were put on notice. How does a small startup compete with AWS when they decide to move into that space? Time will tell...
- Amazon OpsWorks - Build "stacks" and deploy apps easily
- AWS Diagnostics for Windows Servers - AWS pushes into the Enterprise by showing Windows more love
- AWS Trusted Advisor & GigaOm Article - Free trial announced, I see a lot of "little guys" impacted by this one
One big OpenStack story to focus on from yesterday, IBM going "all in" with OpenStack. I saw this one coming a mile away. Even though I'm now employed by one of the vendors I posted about I still contend that it depends on which vendors show up to the OpenStack Party. As an outsider looking in it appears HP is "phoning it in" (and a lot of people are leaving), while IBM and RedHat are getting serious.
- IBM Goes All-In on OpenStack - Wired and All Things D Links
VMware
Beating up VMware has become the cool thing to do. I joked about it on Twitter but I believe the VMware's message from PEX (VMware Partner Exchange) last week sent the wrong message the same way I felt AWS sent out some bad mojo at their conference late last year. The big guys tend to approach this as all or nothing and everyone else is the enemy (it's their job, don't blame them) but most customers I talk to don't see it this way at all.
- James Staten on VMware's Innovator's Dilemma
- Randy Bias' Analysis of VMware's situation - Randy is Cloudcast Alumni and love him or hate him, he will always tell you his opinion
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