4 articles Cloud Computing

Apache Cloudstack

Posted on by Ron Jagannathan

CloudStack is apache foundation managed open-source cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. It uses existing hypervisors such as KVM, VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, and XenServer/XCP for virtualization. In addition to its own API, CloudStack also supports the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API[2] and the Open Cloud Computing Interface from the Open Grid Forum. Rather than explain CloudStack here. (I am still learning cloudstack). I think your…

Why Is Microsoft Showing So Much Interest In Linux, Apache Mesos, DC/OS and other opensource software lately?

Posted on by Ron Jagannathan

It appears that Microsoft has decided that the operating system is no longer an important battleground, and that it’s more important to gain market share in cloud (Azure and Office 365) than it is to put energy into battling Linux for application market share. Microsoft’s cloud strategy has shifted to customer choice, including support for…

Why Unikernels Are Great for DevOps

Posted on by Ron Jagannathan

Unikernels are application sized virtualization like a container but use a unique kernel and OS like with a virtual machine. They are an image that contains a library operating system that can be directly be run on a hypervisor. Unikernels are single-purpose virtual machines (VM). They only run one application—which is interesting when you think about it, because that’s…