Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 15 Jan 2010
Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud.
There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation job. The Grid Engine also understand [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 23 Oct 2009
a new report from analysts The 451 Group outlines the success to date that GigaSpaces has had in the Cloud Sector. The report talks about how GigaSpaces now has 76 customers using its software on cloud-computing platforms. This is up from 25 on Amazon’s EC2 in February. GigaSpaces have moved forward their cloud strategy in [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 22 Aug 2009
What does it take to make a Cloud Computing infrastructure enterprise ready ? Well, as always, this probably depends on the use case, but support for real-time scaling and SLA support must figure highly.
Software that purports to scale the applications on the cloud is not new, have a look at our prior blog post on this [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 24 Jul 2009
We had a meeting with Amazon in the UK recently and covered off some off the pressing issues that we wanted to speak about and also learnt some other of what Amazon have lined up.
First, what is not going to happen anytime soon:
- From what we heard Amazon are not going to resolve the [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 08 Jul 2009
From the Amazon Web Services Blog:
Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon Elastic MapReduce and the ways in which it can be used to process large data sets on a cluster of processors. Since the announcement, our customers have wholeheartedly embraced the service and have been doing some very impressive work with it (more on this in [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 03 Jul 2009
When deploying on EC2 even though Amazon provides the hardware infrastructure, you still need to tune your instances operating system and monitor your application. You should review your hardware/software requirements and review your application design and deployment strategy
The Operating System
Change ulimit
‘ulimit’ Specifies the number of open files that are supported. If the value set for [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Jun 2009
Having worked on a number of projects with Amazon Web Services recently the one non-technical thing that has stood out is the billing model that Amazon adopts which basically forces the company to have a credit card available and then Amazon produce an email with the least amount of information possible on it to tell [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Jun 2009
The recent Cloud Views conference presentations can be viewed below:
Prof. Pedro Veiga Presentations / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009
View more OpenOffice presentations from Paulo Calçada.
Luis Alves Martins Presentation / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009
View more OpenOffice presentations from Paulo Calçada.
Carla Pinheiro Presentation / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009
View more OpenOffice [...]
Amazon Web Services admin on 01 Jun 2009
There is a good PDF whitepaper on using Oracle with Amazon Web Services which can be downloaded here.
A tutorial by Amazon on creating an Active Directory Domain on Amazon EC2 is a thorough article and well worth the read if you intend to implement this functionality on the cloud.
Simon Brunozzi from Amazon gives a good [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid admin on 16 May 2009
This session was presented at Cloud Slam 09 by Nati Shalom CTO of GigaSpaces. It provides a practical guideline addressing the common challenges of developing and deploying an existing enterprise application on the cloud. Additionally, you will get the opportunity for hands-on experience running and deploying production ready applications in a matter of minutes on [...]
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