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There’ve been various discussions in the community on OpenStack Interoperability and Portability. The discussions tend to be centralized around the future of the OpenStack API and whether or not it would make sense to support the AWS API on top of OpenStack to allow for better compatibility with… Read More

Overview Cloudify and Opscode Chef work together to provide the greatest high qualify recipe/cookbook coverage for deployment that is possible.  Cloudify works with Chef by delegating the installation (and potentially startup) phases of recipe lifecycle to Chef for individual services.  Cloudify takes care of full application deployment and coordination,… Read More

Architecting and building a web service in the cloud age is quite simple. Options range from web site generators such as Wix, to Paas providers such as GAE, all the way to the traditional LAMP setup hosted on IaaS that gives you the maximum control and customization power. Read More

Here’s a short post that explains how to install Heat and DevStack on Vagrant # Download and install “(newwindow)Vagrant”:http://downloads.vagrantup.com (1.2.6). # Download an “(newwindow)Ubuntu box”:http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box for the vagrant and place it in your Vagrant folder. # Download this Vagrantfile and place it in your Vagrant folder: #… Read More

OpenStack was first announced three years ago at the OSCON conference in Portland. I remember the first time I heard about the announcement and how it immediately caught my attention. Ever since that day, I have become a strong advocate of the technology. Looking back, I thought that it would… Read More

h2. Devstack is # A great option to install and run an OpenStack cloud on your laptop or inside a VM on a cloud. # Ideal for potential users who want to see what the Dashboard looks like from an admin or user perspective, and OpenStack contributors who… Read More

Peter Chadwick Senior Product Manager – Cloud Infrastructure at SUSE wrote an interesting article arguing  Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise. Chadwick refers to three main points in his arguments: Variety – OpenStack is the only cloud platform that supports every major hypervisor. Familiarity – OpenStack… Read More

Big Data systems by their very nature tend to be…Big.Big in the amount of data, in the number and size of infrastructure behind it, etc. Cloud based infrastructure can be a good fit as a cost effective infrastructure for running those Big Data systems. While this may sound obvious, many… Read More

This Monday we’re launching the “(newwindow)Cloudify online recipe catalog”:/cloudifyRecipeCatalog.html and the Cloudify Player, an embeddable, simple to use JavaScript widget that allows users to launch any Cloudify recipe on the cloud from within any web page, with a single click. The idea behind it is simple: visit a web… Read More

The Promise of a Cloud Application Marketplace The cloud has clearly emerged as the new world. Today, we find ourselves in an era of land-grabbing in which everyone wants the bigger piece of this new world. Amazon has the advantage of being the first to grab. Others would like… Read More

“(newwindow)In the previous post”:http://natishalom.typepad.com/nati_shaloms_blog/2013/05/amazon-marketplace-not-a-fair-play-thoughts-on-an-open-marketplace-alternative-with-openstack.html, I outlined the main lessons learned from the Amazon Cloud Marketplace and suggested an alternative approach for building an open marketplace. In this post I’ll refer to a specific implementation of that alternative approach through a new Cloudify Service called the Cloudify Player. h3. Read More

Preface I am still amazed from time to time to find that even very intelligent people who know a lot about software development, but nothing about cloud computing, don’t seem to know this truth about the cloud “world”: when a machine (VM) goes down, its data is gone forever,… Read More