Paul Miller

On stage at CommunityOne East in New York just now, Dave Douglas (Senior Vice President, Cloud Computing and Developer Platforms) and Lew Tucker (CTO, Cloud Computing) just unveiled a RESTful API to Sun’s new Cloud.
Walk-on parts during the hour-long streamed presentation included two recent podcast victims; EUCALYPTUS Project Director Rich Wolski and RightScale CEO Michael [...]

There’s an oft-repeated truism that Cloud Computing’s service providers will always wish to ‘move up the stack’ toward the higher-margin nirvana of the layers above.
In conversation with RightScale CEO Michael Crandell yesterday it would appear that he, at least, sees little need to join this scramble upward.

 

 Standard Podcast [44:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download