Tag Archives: Red Hat

February 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Ravello and the Developer’s Application Hypervisor Attract $26M in Funding

By Ben Kepes

While in Israel last week, I took the opportunity to meet with Ravello, a company just coming out of stealth that aims to ease the process of development and deployment of enterprise applications. Founded by the creators of open source hypervisor KVM, Ravello aims to enable the replication of existing

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January 28, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future

By Ben Kepes

News recently that VMware, fresh from spinning out most of its developer focused non-virtualization assets in the Pivotal Initiative, has put a huge $30M finding into Puppet Labs. As part of the deal, VMware and Puppet will team up to produce a new IT management solution for VMware customers to use that leverages the automation [...]

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August 30, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

PaaS API Specification Submitted to OASIS–CAMP Blowing Around in the Tumbleweeds

By Ben Kepes

I took some time out of my day at CloudOpen today to dial in for a briefing from some of the companies behind a new industry standard, Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) management Application Programming Interface (API) specification. I’m always dubious about these sorts of initiatives,

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April 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Linux Foundation Launches CloudOpen Event

By Ben Kepes

I’m a firm believer in the value that an open approach towards cloud computing can bring. Aside from any technical benefit (of which there are many) open appeals to my sense of community, of fairness, of democratization. For this reason it was exciting to hear an announcement from the Linux

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