I like this analogy in this article from SD Times, Think of Clouds as Restaurants. Marty Puranik makes the point that as Cloud service providers cut costs in a ‘battle to the bottom’ to compete with each other, it’s far more important to look at the services they each provide rather than just the cost per unit of whatever.
VMware and EMC spin off joint Cloud and Big Data initiative
Rumored since this summer, announced today. The joint initiative will pull in resources from Cloud Foundry, Spring, Gemfire and Big Data resources from VMware and EMC.
More info in this article on Ars Technica.
Syncing multiple Dropbox accounts from the same Mac
Perfect – this is exactly what I was looking for. I didn’t follow the instructions as far as adding the two scripts to my Logon items, but creating the two Automator scripts that I can run when needed was exactly what I was looking for.
VMWare rumor: new CEO stepping in and about to spin off CloudFoundry?
This is unexpected: according to sources, GigaOm say VMWare is taking a new CEO from majority shareholder EMC and is spinning off their PaaS offering, Cloud Foundry. These changes are expected to be announced during their second quarter earnings call on July 23rd.
Rumors can always turn out to be nothing but a rumor, but GigaOm’s opinion on this move is that they’re attempting to distance Cloud Foundry’s association from VMWare and EMC, which may be holding back adoption of their service compared with other IaaS and PaaS offerings, since some perspective Cloud Foundry customers may be put off by the perceived platform lock-in by Cloud Foundry using VMWare and/or EMC products. Interesting point of view – have to see how this one turns out.