Creating JBoss Appliances in the Cloud – reduce cost and complexity and decrease time to market
One of my favorite quotes from the JBoss days back in 2006 was Marc Fleury‘s: “Digital Foundation == (Virtualization + SOA + Web2.0)^OSS”
In this blog, not much words, rather one picture trying to show where we stand since and position JBoss in the cloud and what it means from an IaaS, PaaS and SaaS perspective.
First let’s define cloud. Bob Mc Wirther gave a simple, yet good answer to this:
- OS-level virtualization
- Not “grid” like Google App Engine or Sun Grid Engine
- Virtual Hardware + OS and we built-up from there
Everyone has their own definition or opinion on what a cloud is. Often people sees it as 3 layers or levels of abstraction:
- IaaS (Infrastructure As A Service), then
- PaaS (Platform As A Service) and then way up high, we have
- SaaS (Software As A Service).
Now to the picture:
IaaS is where Red Hat’s Virtualization RHEV lives, PaaS is where JBoss Offering lives, SaaS is where ISV’s service lives
Note: JBoss on Amazon EC2 (in the cloud), just completed the Beta program. GA offering would be by January.
If you want to find out more, please check the references below:
•http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/redhat/
