them honest. I applaud Amazon if they do in fact
allow EC2 to become a standard.
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
Summary
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a new platform closely modelled on it, will emerge as the leading cloud standard, Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has predicted.
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Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a new platform closely modelled on it, will emerge as the leading cloud standard, Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has predicted.
Shuttleworth told delegates at a BT open-source event on Monday that to emerge as a leader among the alternatives now on offer, a cloud platform must have open-source implementations. He gave the example of the Eucalyptus implementation of EC2, which the Canonical-sponsored Ubuntu Linux distribution has adopted for private and public cloud use.
"The winner will be either explicitly Amazon EC2 or, if [other players] get into gear, an IETF standard closely modelled on EC2," he said, referring to the Internet Engineering Task Force standards-setting body.
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DonnieBoy5th Oct 2009 -
IT_Guy_z5th Oct 2009 -
Did you read the article? Amazon is allowing it to become a standard, so,
there will be multiple vendors offering the
service. There is already an open source solution
(Eucalyptus).
Amazon will have to compete on the merits. That
said, we need to hold Amazon's feet to the fire
early on, and make sure everything is freely re-
implementable by third parties with no license
necessary.DonnieBoy5th Oct 2009 -
What are you smoking?
"and make sure everything is freely re-
implementable by third parties with no license
necessary."
You're not really serious are you? Do you think Amazon is going to give away something they have spent a ton of money to develop? Not likely.
ths405th Oct 2009 -
RE: Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
Except they just had their first DDoS attack, that took down a customer for more than 16 hours..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/05/amazon_bitbucket_outage/
kanned5th Oct 2009 -
ths405th Oct 2009
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