Links List 3.27.09

March 27th, 2009 by Julia Lim

John Foley of InformationWeek’s Plug Into the Cloud blog writes about Five Steps To A Well-Tuned Cloud this week and mentions ScienceLogic along with CA, IBM and others as a vendor targeting the need for products that monitor and manage cloud services. As we’ve discussed, there’s a real need here not just to monitor cloud app performance but to do it in a consistent way with how you’re monitoring all the other infrastructure you have.

Gartner, after publicly calling us “cool“, released a report that estimates worldwide cloud services revenue surpassing $56.3 billion this year and surging to $150 billion in 2013. If you are not on the cloud wagon yet, what are you waiting for?

As a follow-up to Dave’s post on IBM possibly buying Sun Microsystems, we share this tidbit about Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, caught off the record gossiping about the acquisition. According to Otellini, Sun was shopped around the Valley and around the world in the last few months.

Instead of bemoaning the fact that IPv6 isn’t being adopted fast enough, IETF is going to do something about it. In this NWW article, Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer for IETF says “…the reality is that nobody wants to go to IPv6 unless they think their friends are doing it, too.” The plan is to create transition tools by the end of 2009 that make it easier to move from IPv4 to IPv6. And in the meantime, Google makes us all feel better by talking about how easy and inexpensive their upgrade to IPv6 was. Hmm, if only Google ruled the world…Speaking of which, I almost forgot about Microsoft and their complaints about the “secret Cloud Manifesto” for interoperability among cloud-computing networks. They claim that they were privately shown a copy of the document, warned it was secret and asked to sign it as is. But, and this is funny, in the process of complaining, they actually “spilled the beans” before the doc went public and got first jump (and first press) on the Cloud Manifesto.

P.S. - the (Open) Cloud Manifesto story gets even better. Apparently, it was IBM and not Enomaly, as previously reported, who was the driving force behind this initiative. The actual document is slated to be released on Monday. I wonder if the drama will continue.

P.P.S. – I literally cannot type fast enough to keep up with this thing. Here’s the Open Cloud Manifesto, already available for your viewing pleasure.

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