In this final of four posts series on “What is the Cloud?”, Robert Starmer, CTO and Principal of Kumulus Technologies, explains the differences between the deployment or access models and wraps up the journey through the parts of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s formal definition of cloud …
XaaS- What a Cloud Does For You
In this episode, part 3 of our 4-part series, we dive deeper into the three core on demand services provided by “The Cloud” – Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS,Compute, Storage and Networking), the well known Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and the often confusing (development) Platfom-as-a-Service (PaaS). Robert Starmer, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO, explains what these X-as-a-Service models …
The Ops/Dev Manifesto
We are operators and we have not been consumed by the Dev/Ops world. We still exist, and while we may look more similar than different, our application is the infrastructure that developers build on. We ensure platform stability, and API enabled accessibility, but not guaranteed availability. We provide visibility, but …
Understanding the Business Value of Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
Saas, PaaS, IaaS – What are they anyway? The services a cloud provides to business can be divided into three categories according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cloud model: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While all clouds are built on real, physical infrastructure of …
Five essential characteristics that transform your infrastructure into a Cloud Computing Cloud.
Is your “Cloud” missing pooled resources, how about on-demand access to those resources? If so, you may not actually have a cloud. There are five essential characteristics that a compute cloud must have – or it fails the requirements and it is not a cloud. In part 2 of this …
Answering the question, “What is Cloud?” can be hard. This will help.
With all the opinion-based cloud computing definitions out there, it is hard to come to an agreement about what “the Cloud” or a ‘cloud service’ is. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a clear and concise definition of what “Cloud” is that has been broadly …
What you Must know about the Storage Services Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
Storage is one of the three key resources in any cloud. However there are considerations – do you need persistent storage? Is Block storage the right choice? How about Object storage? In this final of four episodes on enabling an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud services, Robert Starmer, CTO of Kumulus Technologies, …
What you Must know about Network Service Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
The Network Service is one of the three key resources in any cloud. Exactly how to approach compute has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The Virtual Machine is no longer “The” answer. Bare metal is increasingly important, especially in compute-intensive environments used for Big Data analytics. In the world …
What you Must know about Compute Services Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
The Compute Service is one of the three key resources in any cloud. Exactly how to approach compute has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The Virtual Machine is no longer “The” answer. Bare metal is increasingly important, especially in compute-intensive environments used for Big Data analytics. In the world …
Understanding the Three Key Cloud Services Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
Pools of Storage, Networking, and Compute resources comprise the essential elements of a cloud. In this first of four episodes on the topic, Robert Starmer, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO, explains some of the considerations for enabling these services of an Infrastructure as a Service offering– as may be enabled by software …