{"id":2010,"date":"2014-06-13T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrahamsconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:41:26","slug":"cloud-talk-includes-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrahamsconsulting.com\/blog\/cloud-talk-includes-rihanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Talk Summons Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cloud<\/a><\/p>\n

Before the advent of Cloud technology, the purest meaning of the cloud<\/a>\u00a0 conjured up soft white puffy images against a back drop of\u00a0 clear blue skies.<\/p>\n

Or<\/p>\n

Grey, turbulent pillow puffs overlapped by ominous darkness to warn of deadly weather which left us with\u00a0 memory strands of\u00a0 the illustrious blue.<\/p>\n

But when cloud is paired with Rihanna?<\/p>\n

Well,<\/p>\n

We have cloud talk.<\/p>\n

Did you see the fashion awards last week? Couldn’t she have benefited from a few clouds in strategic places?<\/p>\n

Benefit?<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s my award, I can wear a naked dress if I want to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um…<\/p>\n

I have found that a dialogue is often more engaging for stimulating conversation…<\/p>\n

So lets refocus our cloud talk to explore why the private cloud has stalled.<\/p>\n

Shall we?<\/p>\n

According Eric Knorr’s\u00a0 article, “Why the private cloud has stalled<\/em>,<\/a>” that was published in Information World on June 2nd, there are two main reasons:<\/p>\n

The immaturity and expense of available private cloud solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because the notion that rare is valuable persists on all levels of society, it has wormed its way into cloud talk. Therefore IaaS, which is one of\u00a0 the three major solutions of the OpenStack\u00a0 framework in addition to commercial IaaS solutions from Microsoft and VMware,\u00a0 would be adapters of the private cloud are caught\u00a0 in a quandary.<\/p>\n

So what is OpenStack<\/em>?<\/p>\n

It is an open source infrastructure as a service\u00a0 initiative that\u00a0 creates and manages large groups of virtual private servers<\/a> in a cloud computing<\/a> environment which makes it critical to the process of a private cloud deployment.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Go ahead, applaud me. I wanted to make sure rare language did not confuse you. So I chose to define it for you.<\/p>\n

This quandary presents real questions characterized by a murky and winding pathway to answers:<\/p>\n