Archive for February, 2009

Berkeley define what Cloud Computing is

A very good paper has been released by UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (Berkeley RAD Lab). The paper is a very good drill down into all the different aspects of Cloud Computing as well as their view on issues that are prevalent within this model. It is a good read – you can download [...]

Using Amazon EC2 public IP address inside EC2 network

Each AMI instance on EC2 is assigned two IP addresses and corresponding DNS names. A public IP address that is accessable over the internet and an internal IP address only accessable inside internal EC2 regional network. You don’t have any control over the internal IP address and it is assigned randomly when you start the [...]

Finding information about an Amazon EC2 instance

One thing hit me when I was working with EC2 and I wanted to find some information about the instance itself. This did not seem to be readily available and I spent a frustrating 45 minutes trying to get what I was looking for. Eventually I found a very easy way to get the amazon [...]

Open Source Cloud OS

EyesOS is a beautiful OpenSource operating system. When eyeOS first started, the  eyeOS team explained their product  as a “Web Desktop“. It eventually changed to “Web Operating System” in late 2006. It is now being more closely associated with Cloud Computing, blurring the lines between a cloud application and a cloud platform. It caters for [...]