Tibco joins the Cloud Club

Another leading vendor, who I know as the premier complex event processing company, Tibco, has also announced a cloud offering called Silver - or to narrow that down, a Platform as a Service offering on top of Amazon EC2. They'll have a large list of development languages and libraries ("Java, C++, and Ruby with support for .NET and Spring" - although some blogs list a larger set of future languages it will support).

Interestingly, they claim they'll make it easy for users to move between Cloud Computing environments, which is one of the current gotachs of Cloud Computing - cloud vendor lockin due to proprietary APIs.

Of course, it'll have auto-scaling, ("self-aware elasticity" in their marketing speak), which seems to be the next big feature that everyone new to the market needs to support.

(see http://www.tibco.com/company/news/releases/2009/press967.jsp)

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New Cloud Computing Offerings

The projects that I'm working on at Smart Services CRC have Cloud Computing (and Cloud Everything-Else) as a recurring theme, and so I've been trying to keep tabs on what's emerging both in the market, and in the academic and blogger discourse on the subject.

Here's an announcement of 2 more Cloud Computing offerings, from Verizon and Carpathia. Interestingly, the Carpathia offering includes auto-scaling, which is hot on the heels of the Amazon EC2 announcement of the same feature.

http://cloudpundit.com/2009/06/03/verizon-and-carpathia-launch-hybrid-offerings/

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