http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/my-views-on-oss-esm-part-4/ JOHNMWILLIS BLOG Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/my-views-on-oss-esm-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1658 Demystifying Clouds | John M Willis ESM Blog Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:59:48 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/wp/other/my-views-on-oss-esm-part-4/#comment-1658 [...] Level 3 providers IMHO are the current highest level of the cloud food chain. IMO, 3Tera stands all alone at this level. I first head about 3Tera when I read a Linux magazine article listing them as a top company to watch in 2008. 3Tera provides software that allows a company to run its own Virtual Private Data Center (VPD). A company or hosting provider can install 3Tera’s Applogic software on a grid of commodity based hardware and enjoy all the rewards of having a self contained cloud. 3Tera has partnered with a number of hosting providers that will provide customers their own private VPD isolated on a grid. 3Tera is only about 3 years old and they told me that their goal was to provide Google style commodity computing to the masses. The primary differentiator between the 3Tera offering and EC2/Mosso offerings is that 3Tera’s approach is a holistic approach. When you get a grid using 3Tere’s Applogic software you get a blank template, sort of like a workflow editor to build your data center. Then you can select from a catalog of firewall servers, load balance servers, Apache servers, and MySql servers. Basically they are predefined virtual images. However, the kicker is that when you select one of the cataloged servers the Applogic software understands the context of which you are selecting the server and makes the appropriate configurations automatically. Literally you drag the icons (I.e., servers) on to the canvas and then you use lines to connect the servers. All of the default mounted file systems are connected in all the right ways. All the nasty network configuration parms are set up with best practices. In fact in a demo/briefing I had with 3Tera they built a three tier Apache web and MySQL grid, the complete bundle, and started the image, all in less than 10 minutes. The images were as real as any EC2 image I have ever used.  I was so blown away that at first I didn’t trust them and asked them to putty into the icons and do some basic linux system commands to make sure it wasn’t a demo system. [...] [...] Level 3 providers IMHO are the current highest level of the cloud food chain. IMO, 3Tera stands all alone at this level. I first head about 3Tera when I read a Linux magazine article listing them as a top company to watch in 2008. 3Tera provides software that allows a company to run its own Virtual Private Data Center (VPD). A company or hosting provider can install 3Tera’s Applogic software on a grid of commodity based hardware and enjoy all the rewards of having a self contained cloud. 3Tera has partnered with a number of hosting providers that will provide customers their own private VPD isolated on a grid. 3Tera is only about 3 years old and they told me that their goal was to provide Google style commodity computing to the masses. The primary differentiator between the 3Tera offering and EC2/Mosso offerings is that 3Tera’s approach is a holistic approach. When you get a grid using 3Tere’s Applogic software you get a blank template, sort of like a workflow editor to build your data center. Then you can select from a catalog of firewall servers, load balance servers, Apache servers, and MySql servers. Basically they are predefined virtual images. However, the kicker is that when you select one of the cataloged servers the Applogic software understands the context of which you are selecting the server and makes the appropriate configurations automatically. Literally you drag the icons (I.e., servers) on to the canvas and then you use lines to connect the servers. All of the default mounted file systems are connected in all the right ways. All the nasty network configuration parms are set up with best practices. In fact in a demo/briefing I had with 3Tera they built a three tier Apache web and MySQL grid, the complete bundle, and started the image, all in less than 10 minutes. The images were as real as any EC2 image I have ever used.  I was so blown away that at first I didn’t trust them and asked them to putty into the icons and do some basic linux system commands to make sure it wasn’t a demo system. [...]

]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/my-views-on-oss-esm-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Mission Impossible at John M Willis Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:49:45 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/wp/other/my-views-on-oss-esm-part-4/#comment-290 [...] wanted to say that his demo was proof of that I was wrong (see my joke about demo’s… My Views on OSS ESM (Part 4). He went on to say that Gartner said the same thing a year ago and changed thier story a few [...] [...] wanted to say that his demo was proof of that I was wrong (see my joke about demo’s… My Views on OSS ESM (Part 4). He went on to say that Gartner said the same thing a year ago and changed thier story a few [...]

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