[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]
[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]
[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]
Remember 2006? Things were starting to fall into place for IT management integration and automation:
SDD was already on its way to cleanly describe/package/manage the lifecycle of simple and composite applications alike,
the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to “desired-state [...]
VMWare published its vCloud API yesterday (it was previously only available to a few partners) and submitted it to the DMTF, as had been previously announced. So much for my speculations involving IBM.
It may be time to update the Cloud API comparison. After a very quick first pass, vCloud looks quite similar to the Sun [...]