Making the Case for Smarter Hybrid Cloud Computing
June 27, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
In a world where cloud computing has already become a commodity, solution providers need to find a way to add value. Given the abundance of capital, there is no shortage of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) options. For solution providers to succeed in the age of the cloud they need to find a way to add value above the infrastructure level.
With that issue in mind Joyent this week announced that it is making the SmartDataCenter software the power its public cloud service available for deployment on private cloud. Faced with many of the same issues that plague solution providers, Joyent developed SmartDataCenter to differentiate its services from all the IaaS offerings in the market, said company CTO Bryan Cantrill…
As a derivative of OpenSolaris, SmartDataCenter 7 makes use of containers as an alternative to hypervisors to provide a more efficient cloud computing environment. The basic issue with most IaaS environment, Cantrill said, is they are not truly elastic; rather, customers have to provision a finite amount of resources because cloud service providers require them to pay for a specific amount of infrastructure. Most of the time customers never really fully use the infrastructure, so they wind up overprovisioning their cloud environment…
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