#cohesiveft

[iotturkey]

Introduction to AMQP Messaging with RabbitMQ

[cloudofdata]

In search of a middle ground

We love polarising things, pitching one (artificially) extreme view against another. One has to 'win' and one has to 'lose.' One has to be good and one has to be evil. PaaS has to be dead, Apple has to be cool, and Microsoft has to be the evil empire. And, all too often, it's nonsense. There's clearly value in painting broad landscapes, and using caricatures to help everyone understand the players and their roles. But if we're not careful, we end up backing everyone into a corner. We take caricatures to extreme, and tip from exaggerating pros and cons into actively misrepresenting. Lying, even.

But we keep doing it.

My final moderating gig at CloudExpoEurope this week was pitched as exactly that kind of clash of opposites; virtual machines versus containers.

Luckily, my pro panel comprised HybridCluster's Luke Marsden, VMware's Joe Baguley and CohesiveFT's Chris Swan. HybridCluster is clearly in the container camp, and everyone knows where VMware is coming from... but everyone concerned recognised that there's actually a place and a role for both VMs and (often lighter, but more tightly focused) containers.

Pragmatism. Here's to more of it.

[sdxcentral]

New Post has been published on SDNCentral

New Post has been published on http://www.sdncentral.com/guest-blog-posts/openflow-is-sdn-sdn-is-not-only-openflow/2013/01/

OpenFlow is SDN, SDN is Not Only OpenFlow

A brief summary of the roots of Software Defined Networking (SDN), our predictions for the future of application layer emphasis, and a proposal to create a broader “big tent” definition.  Download the Complete White Paper PDF. Here are the highlights of our thinking: Software Defined...

[parkparadigm]

According to analyst TechMarketView, around half of the suppliers on the framework are SMEs, and include cloud computing hosting provider ElasticHosts, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider HTK, enterprise cloud control provider CohesiveFT and cloud consultants ZumZum, have also been named on the contract.

G-Cloud open for business - ComputerworldUK.com

...nice to see CohesiveFT in the mix.

[parkparadigm]

Actually, CohesiveFT is among the fastest developing and most innovative Cloud Computing companies in Europe. They were among the first to realize the great potential of cloud technologies and its overall ideology and now benefit from their pioneering spirit and courage. The company can be depicted as one of the Top 100 cloud companies in the world, according to various industry sources, although it lacks the financial power of well established companies with decades-long history. Nevertheless, CohesiveFT could create real sensation among investor if its founders decide to place an IPO on the floor of a leading stock exchange.

Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars: CohesiveFT | CloudTweaks.com - The Cloud Computing Community

...nice to have fans. Go CohesiveFT!

[parkparadigm]

VPN-Cubed is the first commercial solution that enables customer control in a cloud, across multiple clouds, and between private infrastructure and the clouds. VPN-Cubed provides an overlay network that allows the customer control over addressing, topology, protocols, and encrypted communications for their devices deployed to virtual infrastructure or GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure. VPN-Cubed gives customers the confidence and flexibility to utilize cloud computing by offering a layer of security that the customer controls inside of 3rd party environments.

CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed® Now Available for GoGrid’s Cloud Infrastructure | Press Releases @ Your Story

Congratulations to Craig, Pat, Dwight and the team!

[parkparadigm]

Most everyone is familiar with the concept of a supply chain—an interlinked vector of individual participants who cooperate to satisfy end user demand. In retail, for example, Wal-Mart capitalized on its supply chain efficiencies of coordinating product sourcing, transportation logistics, and sales data feedback to fuel its leap to biggest retailer in the world. Many of us in the tech industry are familiar with the analogous chain that ties together ODM (Original Devices Manufacturers like HTC), transport firms, product designer (e.g., HP), and retail outlets—all coordinated to deliver a, say, server to an IT operations group so that it can install it in response to demand from an applications group. But I'd like to posit that in cloud computing, particularly the private variant, another supply chain exists, one based on virtual resources within the data center. In this supply chain, demand emanates from a member of an applications group who (in the vision of cloud computing) fills out a web form that identifies type and amount of resources, (e.g., two virtual processors, so much memory, network connectivity, storage, and so on) clicks the submit button, and, voila, compute resources appear, ready to use, in a matter of minutes. It is the job of IT Operations to emulate Wal-Mart and coordinate sourcing, logistics, and shelf (or in this case, rack) stacking to ensure sufficient resources are available to meet application group demand.

Why Private Cloud Will Make IT Think Like Wal-Mart - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

...I think cohesiveFT's ElasticServer solves at least some of this problem...

[parkparadigm]

Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the eponymous open source private cloud platform, has gathered a little ecosystem of third-party software solutions such as AppScale, Canonical, CohesiveFT, RightScale, rPath and Ylastic that make Eucalyptus more usable and accessible.

Eucalyptus Gathers Followers | Cloud Computing Journal

ahh, ecosystems...the future of business.