Comments on: Cloud Types: Fabric vs Instance

By: Talking to Joyent’s CTO and co-founder: Jason Hoffman « Barton's Blog

Talking to Joyent’s CTO and co-founder: Jason Hoffman « Barton's Blog — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:36:22 +0000

[...] – the layer currently serving as middleware – is public cloud only. The PaaS fabrics tend to be proprietary and not available for private consumption. Salesforce.com, for example, [...]

By: tecosystems » Cheeburger, Cheeburger, Cheeburger: The Appetite for the Private Cloud

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:47:07 +0000

[...] – the layer currently serving as middleware – is public cloud only. The PaaS fabrics tend to be proprietary and not available for private consumption. Salesforce.com, for example, [...]

By: JasonM80

JasonM80 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:34 +0000

Nice clarification. Some of the commenters have suggested that instance style equates to IaaS, while fabric style equates to PaaS. From your writeup, I think I would generally agree. However, Amazon’s recent feature-adds, the RDBMS and .NET SDK, are more characteristic of PaaS. Perhaps it is possible to be instance style but maintain characteristics of both.

Is Amazon moving in the direction of PaaS or are these features simply a preemptive response to the upcoming release of Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform (a PaaS and fabric style service)? It will be interesting to see what happens in the industry over the next few years.

(I am contracting for M80, working with Microsoft to promote Windows Azure)

By: tecosystems » What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions

tecosystems » What’s in Store for 2010? A Few Predictions — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:18:20 +0000

[...] cloud fabrics, programming language proliferation, mobile application development and the spike in development [...]

By: tecosystems » VMware Taps a new SpringSource: The Q&A

tecosystems » VMware Taps a new SpringSource: The Q&A — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:05:40 +0000

[...] a veneer on top of an Infrastructure as a Service offering – what I have previously termed a fabric. This fabric obscures the underlying complexities of the hardware and software infrastructure [...]

By: DEBEDb holds forth

DEBEDb holds forth — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:30:34 +0000

All your ACID are belong to us…

First hallucination
The hallucinations category of this blog is what may be called a “vision” were it not obviously so “out there”. (Yes, the first hallucination is on the ACID subject, ha ha.)

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By: Malcolm McRoberts

Malcolm McRoberts — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:23:59 +0000

The fabric model sounds very much like a grid. Or maybe a virtualized grid. Also not sure where fabric leave of an PaaS starts.

By: tecosystems » Open Source and the Cloud: Where’s the LAMP?

tecosystems » Open Source and the Cloud: Where’s the LAMP? — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:01:59 +0000

[...] primary styles of cloud implementations, IaaS and PaaS – what I’ve previously termed instance and fabric – we’ve seen dramatically different economic opportunities. With IaaS, the [...]

By: Cloud Taxonomy: Applications, Platform, Infrastructure

Cloud Taxonomy: Applications, Platform, Infrastructure — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:00:42 +0000

[...] O’Grady wrote up a nice post back in November called Cloud Types: Fabric vs Instance, where he described the Platform and Infrastructure layers as Fabric and Instance respectively. [...]

By: Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog : RedMonk: Beyond Java and .NET: What Are We Writing To?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:29:11 +0000

[...] crammed in as well. For all the success of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (what I’ve called instance clouds) play that is Amazon, more of the emerging platforms are Platform-as-a-Service (what I’ve called [...]