My previous post, Beware Premature Elaboration, discussed some of the issues around cloud computing standards. If you want to hear more about the topic, and especially GoGrid, one of the most innovative cloud providers in the market, check out the Overcast Show #6. My co-host, James Urquhart, and I interview Randy Bias and Michael Sheehan of GoGrid.
We discuss many topics (see Show Notes below), but I think the most interesting is the fact that GoGrid recently open sourced their API specification. As I said before, this is the right way to go. We have a number of open source APIs, including GoGrid, EUCALYPTUS, Enomaly and others, and now the market will start determining the winner.
The GoGrid case is particularly interesting because of two main reasons. The first is that it is a proven API that is up and running in production and reflects a lot of experience from the trenches. The second is they are making a proactive attempt to reach out to other cloud providers and other members in the ecosystem to support their API, as Randy discusses in the podcast.
Listen to the podcast here.
Here are the full Show Notes:
After a long hiatus we are back with the Overcast podcast. In Show #6 we have a discussion with Randy Bias and Michael Sheehan of GoGrid. Some of the topics we cover include:
