Sun Solaris On Demand Program (Mostly Vapor)
Today Sun announced a new Sun Solaris On Demand Program. At first glance it appears to be their first attempt at an on demand cloud computing solution built on Solaris Containers. Upon closer examination I found a few issues with their supposed cloud offering.1. The pricing is fishy. "Play in Sun's sandbox free for 90 days." Then what? How much?
2. Virtualized Tenancy - Quote
"Worried about having to re-architect your application for multi-tenancy? With the Solaris On Demand program for ISVs you don't have to. Solaris On Demand virtualizes compute resources through Solaris Containers. Each container is isolated from other containers, providing a secure execution environment for separate application instances. So you can run your OnPremise software On Demand without re-architecting." ... What does that even mean? The sun virtualization will scale for you, I doubt it.
Whether you're using containers or traditional virtualization, serving a single tenant application in a VM doesn't magically make it "Multi-tenant" Sun makes no mention of how they auto-magically achieve a multi tenant environment, other then it just happens (Like magic). For the most part this new on demand cloud solution appears to be primarily vapor or an attempt to grab some consulting work.
Sun yet again has done a great job at showing how clueless they really are when it comes to cloud computing and virtualization.
Learn more http://www.sun.com/third-party/ondemand/index.jsp
Labels: Cloud Computing, sun, Virtualization
posted by enomaly
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12:34 PM
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What "you don't have to re-archetect your app" means to me is that no changes are required in order for it to run in Sun's cloud.
I don't believe they intend it to mean your app will become multi-tenant or that it will scale; simply that you don't need to change anything in order to avail of this offering.
It still seems to be bad marketing on Sun's part. I think what they're trying to show is that one big box can hold multiple customers in isolation if you deploy with containers like they were virtual machines. To make it a cloud solution they'd need to allow it to span multiple servers, and hopefully cheap x86 servers so this doesn't turn into a hardware sales grab.
I think you may be doing Sun a disfavor here. Sun uses Solaris containers for zones on trusted computing systems, and the defense / intelligence community rely on this to separate content at different classification levels. It's unique to Solaris for the moment, and quite robust. Note: I don't work for Sun, we just use their technology.
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