Cloud and Grid admin on 28 Feb 2009
A recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree totally with the article, but the ethos behind the article i.e. making it easier to trial products, try out solutions and build apps /services quicker to be build internal business cases is [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 27 Feb 2009
Amazon is currently the big bear of Cloud Computing Platforms. It’s web services division has proved disruptive and consistently shown innovation and breadth of services within its platform. It is growing at a rapid rate. Forty per cent of Amazon’s cross revenues are from its 3rd party merchants. Amazon Web Services is an extension of [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 26 Feb 2009
A new book co-authored by Jim Liddle, one of the contributors to this blog has been released entitled “TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The aim of TheSavvyGuideTo book range is to get people up to speed as quickly as possible on the subject matter of the books.
Although the book covers a plethora [...]
Cloud admin on 23 Feb 2009
The June 2009 issue of Cutter IT journal is on Cloud Computing. In this issue, they will examine cloud computing in terms of strategic approaches, concerns, challenges, compliance requirements, technological options, market opportunities, and the value and impact cloud computing will have in the real world now and in the future. Details below.
Will cloud computing [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 22 Feb 2009
Without a doubt the credit crunch is affecting everyone big and small. Firstly jobs are being shed, even from previously impervious organisations. Microsoft announced that it was cutting 5,000 jobs worldwide, Intel announced it was cutting between 5-6,000 of its 83,000 employees, and SAP announced it was to reduce it’s 51,500 headcount by 3,000 before [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Feb 2009
In this post I will walk you through the high level of securing a normal tiered application running on EC2. First I will cover the basics of what EC2 provides and then briefly discuss how this can be used in a real life scenario.
Security Groups
For Network security EC2 provides a security groups, security groups are [...]
Cloud admin on 19 Feb 2009
Gartner has just released a report entitled “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“. It is a well written piece and is very useful if your company is considering a move into cloud either with a consumer offering or building an internal cloud offering.
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 18 Feb 2009
One of the interesting things about the Amazon success story is that the EC2 virtual server technology is often assumed to originally have been an overspill from Amazon’s own network and that Amazon sold the extra capacity that it had available and that was not being used at peak times. I guess we’ll never know [...]
Cloud admin on 18 Feb 2009
Jean-Lou Dupont has created a Mindmap of all the Cloud Computing players. It’s public and you can clone it or export it as an image. It’s a useful reference of who is doing what in the space.
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 15 Feb 2009
An interesting post asked the question why Amazon S3 is considered cheaper than the alternative - excerpt below:
With a price tag of $0.150/GB/month, storing 1TB of data costs around $150/month on Amazon S3. But this is a recurring amount. So, for the same amount of data it would cost $1800/year and $3600/2-years. And this doesn’t [...]
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