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		<title>Cloud Cafe #15 &#8211; RightScale the On-Ramp to the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/cloud-cafe-15-rigthscale-the-on-ramp-to-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this podcast I was able to speak with Michael Crandell the CEO of Rightscale on their recent &#8220;Multi-Cloud&#8221; provider support for Flexiscale and GoGrid. Micheal walks me through the new announcement and I hit him with a few questions. We also talk a little bit about what they are doing with Eucalyptus, the open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The On-Ramp to the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RightScale announced today that they are adding support for two more cloud infrastructure providers. They have added support for Flexiscale and GoGrid. Some have considered RightScale as sort of the on-ramp to Amazon&#8217;s AWS. With this new multi cloud infrastructure support they might start calling them the on-ramp to the cloud. Press Release Listen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/do-we-need-a-cloud-standard-or-just-one-good-old-it-management-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CohesiveFT&#8217;s Elastic Servers Available for Deployment to FlexiScale&#8217;s On-Demand Cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cohesivefts-elastic-servers-available-for-deployment-to-flexiscales-on-demand-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Press Release&#8230; CHICAGO and LIVINGSTON, Scotland – June 24, 2008 – CohesiveFT, providers of the Elastic Server Platform, an on-demand service for dynamic assembly and deployment of virtual machines, and FlexiScale, a leading provider of true on-demand Cloud computing, today announced a technology partnership to enable deployment of CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers to FlexiScale&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matching the Customer With the Right Cloud (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/matching-the-customer-with-the-right-cloud-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, I created a &#8220;Cloud Vendors A to Z,&#8221; and I have received a little push back from some of my new Cloud friends (mostly vendors). I put a stake in the ground by categorizing cloud vendors as either level 1, level 2, or level 3. Although I am still refining my definitions, the bigger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/groundwork/cloud-vendors-a-to-z/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST&#8230; Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised) Cloud Vendor Level Type Status Based Off Beta Status Notes 3Tera 3 Server Not a Provider (1) Software Based Production 3Tera does provide hostingÂ however their goal is to be a software solution not a hosting solution Adobe Air 1 Application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Movements</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/cloud-movements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s have a cloud party 2009. Here is a list of my predictions. Mosso adds a new service that is 3Tera like and now Rackspace has the holy trinity of hosting providers. 3Tera and Rackspace partner. Rightscale becomes cloud agnostic by building their own grid framework. Rightscale is acquired by a big player (e.g. Sun). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<title>Level 2 Cloud Provider Matrix</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/level-2-cloud-provider-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Level 2 Providers Amazon Mosso Flexiscale Pay as you go y n y No lock in y y y Dynamic provisioning n y y Load Balancing n y y Firewall Support n y y Autonomics n n y Clustering n y n Live Image Migration n n y Snapshot Image y y n Customizable Images [...]]]></description>
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