Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Jan 2009
There are a number of options if you want to explore open source cloud. Below we touch open just a few:
Eucalyptus framework: Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 27 Jan 2009
Nimbus is an EC2 implementation to provide compute cycles in the cloud for scientific communities. Nimbus is an open source toolkit that allows you to turn your cluster into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. NImbus provides:
Two sets of Web Service interfaces: Amazon EC2 WSDLs and Grid community WSRF
Implementation based on the Xen hypervisor (KVM coming soon)
Can be configured [...]
Cloud admin on 26 Jan 2009
Amazon EC2 provides 5 different instance types and publishes compute capacity as EC2 Compute Unit. But what do they really mean as actual cpu’s reported to the operating system?
Its quite easy to find out. /proc/cpuinfo provides information about CPU and their speed. In the table below I have attached the output of more /proc/cpuinfo [...]
Cloud admin on 24 Jan 2009
An interesting article at EBizQ looks at some recent analyst reports and supports the prediction that the current global downturn in the economy has resulted in a cost-conscious, capex-constrained economic environment in which cloud and SaaS are more appealing than ever.
Firstly they look at email and come to the conclusion that running an in-house email system [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 23 Jan 2009
When a distributed application is running in-house the IT has a lot of control over the environment. They know exactly about the hardware and resources available:
network bandwith available
network latency
Now move to EC2 and other than some vague figures there is very little documented.
The guys at RighScale did some tests for ‘EC2-EC2′ bandwidth and ‘EC2-S3′ [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 23 Jan 2009
For those who want to understand more about Oracle technology in the Cloud then have a look through the presentation below.There is also details of a customer success story (Harvard Medical School) on Slide 28 for those interested in real cloud use cases.
"Oracle in the Cloud" AWS Webinar
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Cloud admin on 22 Jan 2009
Appistry blogged about their top 10 Cloud posts of 2008. There is some interesting topics and information. The original article can be found here and the post summaries are reproduced below:
The Blind Men and the Cloud, by Sam
In this post I unveiled the first, if not only, poem about cloud computing. It continues to be [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 21 Jan 2009
In case you missed it, Amazon have released a web based management console. You can see a Flash video of this in action here.
Does this signal the death knell for ElasticFox and Ylastic ? Only time will tell, but Amazon’s strategy of providing tools and going up against its partners is a fine line to [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Grid admin on 21 Jan 2009
Below is a very interesting presentation by GigaSpaces (Nati Shalom and James Liddle) on how the use of virtualisation can save costs. This also includes a a case study as well as some interesting “real cloud use cases”.
Savig cost using application level virtualization
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Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Jan 2009
Many organisations are used to using virtualisation in-house probably from the use of VMWare. Often the organisational need is to move an existing virtualised application hosted on VMWare to a cloud provider, such as EC2. If this is your scenario, standards won’t help but you can still achieve what you need to do. The basic [...]
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