Sun Open Cloud Platform

The following notes about Sun’s Cloud offerings are taken from CommunityOne East Web Event.

Sun Cloud – First cloud offered by Sun is “Sun’s Public Cloud”.  This cloud for tinkering, for the Open Community, etc.   The cloud is available as Project Kenai.

At the lowest level (IaaS) Sun is offering

1. Compute Service – Virtual Machines, Networking, Storage
2. Storage Service – Storage Objects, WebDAV and S3.  Based on Open Storage (ZFS).  Open Office can save directly to this already under “Save to Cloud”.

To access and provision in their cloud, Sun is offering two methods:

1. Virtual Data Center – a GUI Driven provisioning system to provision Compute Services and Storage Services.  Drag and Drop GUI networking, servers, etc.
2. Open API (Sun Cloud API) – Public  RESTful API under Creative Commons license, open to all, to programmatically provision.  Starts with a single URL and all functionality discoverable under that.  Code libraries in  Java, Python,  Ruby and PHP.

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