Comments on: Cloud Foundry lets apps span cloud providers

By: Scott McDonald

Scott McDonald — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:28:37 +0000

I’m curious – what are the advantages to using Cloud Foundry versus running Ubuntu LTS on my laptop, in vmware, in aws, linode, rackspace, etc… Ubuntu LTS is solid, free, great trusted packages. Basically I’m doing everything I’m reading here already but using a common linux distribution that’s free. I can easily set those stacks up to be fully replicated across multiple cloud vendors with automated traffic failover via dnshat.com. Why should company’s consider Cloud Foundry instead of hiring dime a dozen unix engineers to build out cloud infrastructures using systems they already familiar with? Not trying to bash – really want to know what/where the advantages are for Cloud Foundry…

Thanks,
Scott McDonad

By: Diane Mueller

Diane Mueller — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:56:13 +0000

There’s nothing “theoretical” about running anywhere, ActieState’s Stackato which is based on Cloud Foundry — has already extended it’s Private PaaS support to vSphere, XenServer, KVM, or OpenStack whether you host it on Amazon, RackSpace, HP Cloud Services or on your own private cloud.

Cloud Foundry open source project what’s really enabling Werner Vogel’s “1000 platforms to bloom”.

Major kudos to the excellent Cloud Foundry engineering team and the extensive Cloud Foundry Open Source community for accomplishing so much in such a short time – proving once again that Open Source collaboration benefits everyone.

By: Chris Tacy

Chris Tacy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:34:02 +0000

Fantastic piece as always Derrick. Love it. In addition to the values you note, however, I think it’s important to also think of the value to developers in companies in being able to provide multi-infrastructure redundancy and fail-over. After all, none of us have forgotten the EC2pocalypse, right?