jclouds's blog

A lot of us in the cloud community enjoy reading what I refer to as "cloud trivia." Cloud trivia encompasses metrics of measured speed or throughput, potentially across cloud providers. A special favorite of mine is the Rackspace post [1] showing how much faster their 1.5c/hr server is than ec2's 8.5c/hr m1.small. There must be a way to use this data to make cloud offerings more relevant to application or budget requirements.

This blog presents a status update of 5 popular open source projects supporting compute cloud portability.

This blog is about open source cloud computing libraries. Specifically, this is about libraries that abstract away differences between compute clouds such as EC2 and Rackspace. In the following blog, you'll find opinions from consultants, business founders, users of the cloud and even those who run a cloud themselves. They will tell you their opinion on the value proposition of cloud aggregation and abstraction libraries. Some mention their expectations for the future. In a follow-up, I'll discuss some of the tools these leaders mention.