Virtustream buys cloud pioneer Enomaly
Summary
The idea makes sense because it gives buyers an option to buy discounted resources (a la Amazon’s (s amzn) Spot Pricing instances) and gives sellers the ability to recoup sunk costs they don’t need. That effort, called the xStream Exchange, should be ready in late-2012 or early 2013, after Virtustream is able to integrate the SpotCloud code and make some needed security upgrades. He thinks his company’s concept of infrastructure units — which it defines as “an extensible container of compute, memory, bandwidth and IOPS, smaller than a virtual machine” — will provide a better cloud currency than the standard server-based allocation model. Rogers spent time in China recently working on some partnership deals, and says it’s “absolutely amazing the scale of what’s being developed over there” in terms of infrastructure and government support. He likens Chinese business to a 1950s Mad Men-style environment, where the guy sitting next to you in the boardroom is smoking a cigarette and drinking scotch, and where personal relationships are king.