I found this month old blog on DevOps and the cloud and it resonated very well with how we've found ourselves presenting the information. It's a great write-up and the best summary I've seen to date. Matt Zimmerman and you can find Matt Zimmerman's DevOps-Cloud blog post here.
This is a very cool move by RackSpace (and others - RightScale, etc.) to widen the options for companies that are planning to adopt cloud computing. And it could have some serious long term impact on the future of private cloud implementations. "Do you want an Amazon API for your private cloud - like what Eucalyptus is offering? Or do you want an open source API for your private cloud?" Assuming that the implementation is on par with Amazon - most companies would probably go open source. We shall see...
Here is a link to the eWeek Article.
Clyde Logue is co-founder of, and Vice President of Product Management for, StreamStep. Prior to co-founding StreamStep, Clyde was Director of Release
Management at Liberty Mutual, where he oversaw and lived the challenges of release management
firsthand. At Bottomline Technologies, Clyde led product management for enterprise and banking industry customers. Previously, he co-founded
mValent (acquired by Oracle)
Clyde holds an MBA from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College
and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas.
