Cloud Computing and Infrastructure 2.0

@johnar

 

 

My apologies if it came across as trivializing the task. It certainly isn't trivial, there's a lot of hard work to be done (integration is always messy and painful, in my experience) but the foundation does exist already to get started and adding more features/integration capabilities to help make those tasks easier is much easier and faster to do when you just need to extend it out further rather than build it from scratch.

 

 

I'd love to hear more details, if you can share. The concept of abstracting appliances, for example. Sounds like you're trying to normalize management of multiple appliance management APIs...that would be ... ugly.

 

 

That raises a really good point, though. Is it time for some standards in this area? SNMP helped NMS go a long way, perhaps it's past time for something similar on the management/configuration side to ease the kind of integration to which I think you are referring?

 

 

Lori