Comments on: Cloud: Interoperability & Portability http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/10/12/cloud-interoperability-portability/ Ruminations & Reflections on Technology & Business Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:38:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andre Leibovici http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/10/12/cloud-interoperability-portability/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Andre Leibovici Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:26:54 +0000 http://blog.skreddy.com/?p=200#comment-73 I do not disagree with your ideal Interoperable and Portable cloud environment. However as a Cloud Computing and Virtualization enthusiast I must admit that despite the efforts aiming for the ultimate scenario we are operationally in living hell. Even with the advent of hypervisor commoditization, up to this point in time there is no online portability between clouds (public or private). The first ecosystems to help administrators to manage environments from different vendors are only now appearing on the scene and even like that they don’t deliver interoperability and portability. VMware has today 70% of the market share and they clearly state that they do not have plans to make their Virtual Infrastructure compatible to other hypervisors. Microsoft announced support to the VMware APIs however how far can they go supporting API’s from a different vendor. There is certainly need of an open API to make the dream come true. To see a workload being transferred from Amazon EC3 to Microsoft Azure or to your private Cloud without disruption I think we will all have to wait for a while. In saying that I would not disregard the fact that there is serious money involved in this market and vendors and consumers will certainly make use of it. Andre Leibovici http://virtualcloud.wordpress.com I do not disagree with your ideal Interoperable and Portable cloud environment. However as a Cloud Computing and Virtualization enthusiast I must admit that despite the efforts aiming for the ultimate scenario we are operationally in living hell.

Even with the advent of hypervisor commoditization, up to this point in time there is no online portability between clouds (public or private). The first ecosystems to help administrators to manage environments from different vendors are only now appearing on the scene and even like that they don’t deliver interoperability and portability.

VMware has today 70% of the market share and they clearly state that they do not have plans to make their Virtual Infrastructure compatible to other hypervisors. Microsoft announced support to the VMware APIs however how far can they go supporting API’s from a different vendor. There is certainly need of an open API to make the dream come true.

To see a workload being transferred from Amazon EC3 to Microsoft Azure or to your private Cloud without disruption I think we will all have to wait for a while. In saying that I would not disregard the fact that there is serious money involved in this market and vendors and consumers will certainly make use of it.

Andre Leibovici
http://virtualcloud.wordpress.com

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