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Will A Slowing Economy Boost Cloud Computing?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:08:15 -0700

This week’s belt-tightening among venture-backed startups is likely to kick off an important phase in the evolution of utility computing and cloud hosting. It’s too early to know all the answers, but here are some of the key questions: Will startups’ enthusiasm for...

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Linux 上的云计算

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:57:32 -0700

Eucalyptus and Enomalism

Enomaly : Elastic Computing (Clarity to Cloud Computing): Home

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:57:40 -0700

Build your own Cloud computing system. Similar to Amazon EC2. Another thing to add to my projects bag! Have you tried this? What kind of applications are you using?

Enomaly : Elastic Computing (Clarity to Cloud Computing): Home

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:57:27 -0700

Build your own Cloud computing system. Similar to Amazon EC2. Another thing to add to my projects bag! Have you tried this? What kind of applications are you using?

Amazon Cuts Prices on S3

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:00:40 -0700

Amazon announced today that it will cut prices for its Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) offering on Nov. 1. The company is essentially offering people who use more storage significant volume discounts. For folks using up to 50 terabytes of storage, the price cuts don’t make much of a difference. In the U.S. they pay 15 cents per gigabyte; in Europe, 18 cents. If you go above 50 terabytes, the price declines by a penny and if you cross the 100-terabyte mark, you see another penny-per-gigabyte decline. After 500 terabytes your price is going to be 12 cents a gigabyte in the U.S. and 15 cents in Europe.

At present you pay 15 cents per GB/month of storage used, regardless of the amount of storage consumed. The current cuts don’t impact the pricing for data transfers and requests made to the Amazon S3 system. Nevertheless, this is still going to save some dollars for startups that are using the S3 service. Amazon, in making the announcement, gave some interesting data points:

* Currently there are over 29 billion objects stored in Amazon S3 vs. 22 billion at the end of Q2 2008. That is sequential growth of 32 percent.
*On Oct. 1, the service peaked at over 70,000 requests per second to store, retrieve, or delete an object.
* Over 400,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Service.

What I was most amazed by was the sheer variety of companies that are using the S3 offering. For instance:

* National Geographic’s topo.com uses S3 to sell maps, download updated trail and trip information and even create trip maps to share with their friends.
* Sonian uses it for large-scale content archiving for things like email compliance.
*Indycar.com and indy500.com utilize Amazon Web Services for web hosting, live video streaming, and live timing and scoring applications.

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OpenNebula :: start

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:58:44 -0700

2008-10-08 - 私事ですが......

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:51:38 -0700

■[技術]Intalio JapanConを覗いてみた

Intalio Japanese コミュニティ - Intalio On-demandが発表されました。

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:51:38 -0700

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:51:08 -0700

[from rugi] Cloud Computing in Plain English con subtítulos en Español | Nubeblog

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:48:05 -0700

Cloud Computing in Plain English con subtítulos en Español | Nubeblog

[from bushwald] VMWare's Most Important Cloud Research? It Might Not Be Technology

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:47:58 -0700

[from bushwald] Data Debasement

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:47:50 -0700

[from swwsman] The iTKO LISA Soapbox: SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization: Skytap Provides Cloud Access and Licensing for ISV Solutions; ITKO LISA is an Initial Partner

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:48:08 -0700

[from swwsman] Will SOA Fold into Cloud Computing?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:48:05 -0700

[from swwsman] Richard Stallman y Open Cloud-Computing

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:47:23 -0700

Linode.com - VPS Hosting

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:48:25 -0700

Aptana Cloud | Aptana

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:47:27 -0700

[from swwsman] Coming to Terms with Cloud Computing

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:48:14 -0700

[from bushwald] 3Tera in virtual Windows server mating call • The Register

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:47:32 -0700

[from bushwald] I.B.M. Releases Bluehouse for Collaboration - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:47:30 -0700

"I.B.M. walked me through an early demonstration of the Bluehouse software, and it seemed to work well. An online meeting started quickly without requiring any software downloads onto my laptop, and I was able to watch as an I.B.M. engineer moved between various projects, sharing a wide range of documents and presentations with different groups of contacts based on their permission settings to see such files." Love that NY Times stylebook with the periods between each letter of IBM. Oh yeah!

[from bushwald] Cloud Computing Definition | Blogging Hyperic

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:43:28 -0700

"Cloud computing is sexy because it taps into the entrepreneur’s 'CIO envy,' as the451group’s Rachel Chalmers called it when we last spoke."

Enomaly : Elastic Computing (Clarity to Cloud Computing)

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:42:56 -0700

Enomaly's Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) is a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for businesses who are looking to design, deploy and manage virtual applications in the cloud and in the process significantly reduce administrative and systems workload. Our browser-based dashboard enables IT personnel to efficiently plan deployments, automate VM scaling and load-balancing; and, analyze, configure and optimize cloud capacity in an easy-to-use utility. We've designed the ECP platform to work alongside your current virtual data center, providing additional value and cost savings.

[from bushwald] IBM bundles up cloud initiatives

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:46:21 -0700

"The company said that Bluehouse would combine social networking and online collaboration tools to help organizations to share documents, contacts, engage in joint project activities, host online meetings, and build social networking communities through a Web browser."

[from bushwald] IBM's House In The Clouds

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:46:07 -0700

"Blue House will also try to reassure businesses of the security of their information by offering companies precise controls over which participants they let at the data. IBM says it will let its customers audit the service's data storage to make sure no information inadvertently slips through those safeguards to the wrong third parties. Because the services will eventually be based on paid subscriptions--not advertising, as in the case of other Web applications like Google's--IBM is also telling users that it won't sift through customers' data to learn about them."

[from swwsman] ¿Windows Cloud? Que miedo!!!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:42:22 -0700

[from swwsman] The Cloud Computing Model Won't Catch Up with SOA Anytime Soon

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:43:07 -0700

Amazon Web Services Developer Community:

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:42:35 -0700

Enomaly : Elastic Computing (Clarity to Cloud Computing): Home

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:15:02 -0700

Enomaly: An Open Source Cloud For the Enterprise

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:40:41 -0700

Enomaly is trying to sell big business on its open-source cloud management and provisioning software by renaming it and packaging it with enterprise-level support, a model popularized by Red Hat. The software, formerly known as Enomalism, will now use the Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform as its new moniker. The software sits between the servers and applications, allocating virtual resources to programs when they need them. Others offering similar management software include RightScale, Elastra and 3Tera.

The Elastic Computing Platform software — not to be confused with the actual infrastructure offered by Amazon’s similarly named Elastic Compute Cloud — allows an enterprise to create a private cloud inside its own data centers. It can also be set up to automatically link a company’s cloud with approved outside cloud providers if the enterprise suddenly needs more processing power.

The software includes security and compliance features necessary to make enterprises take it seriously. In addition, the licensing model allows business users to develop and change the open-source code for their own needs, without having to release that code back to the community. So far, Enomaly’s Elastic Compute Cloud only supports open-source hypervisors such as Xen and KVM, so I’m not sure how many big enterprises, which tend to prefer VMware, will actually find it useful.

Reuven Cohen, CEO of Enomaly, says support for VMware is coming. The competition is offering similar promises, backing up the notion that, to gain enterprise adoption, management software will need to be flexible enough to handle multiple hypervisors and multiple clouds.

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tinydb.org

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:01:08 -0700