cloud

Ninefold (http://ninefold.com/) are a new cloud provider on the Australian scene, backed by Maquarie Telecom. They have a cloud compute and cloud storage offering and are being quite secretive about the implementation of the service. Just having a quick look at their documents, I'd have a quick guess as to what they are using.

First for the cloud storage, it looks like they are using EMC Atmos (http://www.emc.com/products/detail/software/atmos.htm). Their API guide is full of HTTP code like:


1 POST /rest/objects HTTP/1.1
2 accept: */*

I just heard a great definition of the different *aaS on the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast (http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=19367). In the "Building the Cloud" episode, I believe it was Rod Haywood who defined the different services by the consumers of them.

IaaS: Infrastructure as a service. Buying VMs. This is consumed by System Administrators who expect to be getting a vanilla OS and do the configuration and application installation for the end users. Used for deploying "applications in the cloud" rather than "cloud applications".