Author Archives: @cloudjunky

Is anyone innovating the Cloud like Amazon?

By @cloudjunky | December 5, 2009

I am a little worried that this blog is becoming a constant affirmation of Amazon and their Cloud services However it doesn’t seem that any other people are innovating like Amazon is. I am probably referring to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors rather than the platform guys. With the announcement a couple [...]

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Azure Virtual Machine Role

By @cloudjunky | November 18, 2009

I think everyone knew about it or suspected it but the ‘Azure VM Role’ was announced today at PDC. This functionality would allow you to run a full operating system instance and maintain administrative rights on the Azure platform. The scenario provided by Bob Muglia was that of choosing a base operating system instance, installing [...]

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Bridging the gap to the Cloud

By @cloudjunky | November 18, 2009

In an earlier post I discussed why Amazon’s IPSEC support was important for Enterprises giving them the ability to treat the cloud provider as an elastic resource yet maintain security of data transfer.
At PDC today Bob Muglia (President of Server and Tools) discussed ‘Project Sydney’ as a way to bridge the gap between the cloud [...]

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Elastic Private Clouds are the new Black

By @cloudjunky | September 29, 2009

I spent the night on Google Reader catching up on things I haven’t read for awhile and I strayed on a couple of posts related to Private Clouds and elasticity/scalability. One article even discussed that private clouds can aid in reducing OPEX. Check them out here and here.
“Private Clouds provide many of the benefits of [...]

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Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud

By @cloudjunky | August 27, 2009

Amazon has released their Virtual Private Clouds allowing people to extend their network and services to Amazon’s cloud services. Werner Vogels (Amazon’s CTO) describes VPC in his blog. The Virtual Private Cloud is particularly important because it opens the doors wide open for Enterprises to use cloud services. It gives them the ability to embrace [...]

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What is Cloud?

By @cloudjunky | August 20, 2009

You hear this quite a bit certainly from Infrastructure people – What is Cloud? How do you define Cloud?
It’s a really easy answer and I believe these series of headings are a good basis for it.
Elastic
Probably the first rule of cloud is elasticity in the sense of dealing with scalability to meet demand and also [...]

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