Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 31 Mar 2009
There has been an interesting discussion occurring on The Cloud Computing forum hosted on Google Groups (and if you are all interested in Cloud I recommend you join this as it really does have some excellent discussions). What has been interesting about it from my viewpoint is that there is a general consensus that the average CPU [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Mar 2009
Mosso are certainly not intent on letting Amazon have everything their own way, posting on their blog, Top 10 Reasons why Cloud Files + Limelight offers a better experience than S3 + CloudFront.
Competition is a great leveler and fuels innovation so I am glad to Mosso taking the lead here. The reasons that they give are reproduced below [...]
Cloud admin on 28 Mar 2009
Introducing the Open Cloud Manifesto is posted on the Cloud Computing Journal blog on 27th March 2009 and announces the first version of the manifesto will be published Monday, March 30th and will be ratified by the cloud community.
This post is submitted after Microsoft’s Re: Microsoft Moving Toward an Open Process on Cloud Computing Interoperability post on the 26th [...]
Cloud admin on 27 Mar 2009
A complaint made by The Electronic Privacy Information Centre to the US Federal Trade Commission could lead to Google online services being closed down. They want Google shut off until Google adopts procedure and standards for safeguarding confidential information. The Financial Times reported:
In a 15-page complaint to the FTC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) [...]
Cloud admin on 23 Mar 2009
It is great enthusing about the benefits of Cloud Computing, but what are the consequences when it goes wrong ? Of course, there are different levels of ’going wrong’. We have often publicised outages from the likes of Amazon and Google, but given the publicised SLA’s of each some down time is expected. However things can get [...]
Cloud admin on 19 Mar 2009
A poll over at LinkedIn is asking the question “What areas of Cloud Computing most concerns your or your organisation”. The current state of play for the poll is as below:
I am surprised that security is coming is so low and performance is perceived as the number one concern, It will be interesting to monitor [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 15 Mar 2009
The simple answer is 4643.
Amazon recently announced new pricing option where you reserve an instance for one or three years and then have discount on the hourly rate. The table below describes the cost per year if the instance is up for the whole year.
Instance Type
Cost/Year On Demand instance $
Cost/Year for 1 year reserved instance [...]
Cloud admin on 15 Mar 2009
Wayne Horkan has a good post centering on a diagram that he uses to focus discussion Cloud Computing which he labels the Cloud Relationship model. I especially like that it covers the entire stack, and found the whole post a good thorough introduction to anyone interested in finding out more about Cloud Computing.
Cloud admin on 14 Mar 2009
CloudSim is proposed as a framework for modelling and simulation of Cloud Computing environments to support performance evaluation of policies for resource provisioning / application scheduling / policies of federation of Clouds (in a repeatable and controllable manner). For details, please check out their Tech Report (PDF).
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 12 Mar 2009
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) is a new type of storage designed specifically for Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS allows you to create volumes that can be mounted as devices by EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes behave as if they were raw unformatted external hard drives and can be formatted using a file system such [...]
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