Cloudiquity

Again the ugly issue of what do you do when the cloud goes wrong rears it’s head. Right now if you login to box.net and try and download a file you cannot download a file. Instead you get a screen like the below. I’m sure Box are aware of this, but it again shows you [...]

Tags: Box, Box.net, Cloud, failure, Storage

As the debate about social privacy settings in the cloud rages on one company is taking advantage of social networks lax privacy to monitor customer comments.
British Telecom has devised software to monitor social networks for negative comments to enable their customer service teams to instantly react and try to turn a negative experience into a [...]

In a recent post CenterNetworks noted that the Amazon S3 service is showing elevated error rates. They noticed that several images were not loading correctly and they heard from multiple CN readers with the same issue on their sites.
They note the issues seem only to be hitting the U.S. Standard centers — other S3 [...]

Tags: Amazon, Cloud Failure, Cloud Storage, s3

Abiquo announced themselves on the world stage recently at the SysCon Cloud Computing expo in New York, which Abiquo completely dominated. Their impressive booth was packed with people the wholetime. If audience feedback and energy is anything to go by, it was clear that they gave by far the most compelling presentations, which was an interesting contrast to [...]

Starting today, Asia Pacific-based businesses and global businesses with customers based in Asia Pacific can run their applications and workloads in AWS’s Singapore Region to reduce latency to end-users in Asia and to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with maintaining and operating their own infrastructure.
The new Singapore Region launches with multiple availability zones and [...]

The upcoming release of GigaSpaces XAP includes the ‘Elastic Data Grid’, which enables deploying a full clustered application with a single API call. Users basically specify their business requirements and XAP automatically performs sizing, hardware provisioning, configuration and deployment. The aim of this is to  provide simplification resulting in reduced effort and cost savings for [...]

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 [...]

Tags: Apache, Grid Computing, Grid Engine, Hadoop, Oracle, Sun

The free beta of the IBM Developer Cloud continues to move forward with more features being added. Recently added were:
- REST and Java API’s
- Instance-independent storage
- RHEL 5.4 base image
- IP address reservation.
Currently you have boot a RHEL image i.e. there is no notion of using your own image and storing it, but IBM confirmed they are [...]

GigaSpaces, in conjunction with MPI Europe, Globant, and Intel recently conducted some benchmarks on the in-memory data caching / data grid element of their version 7 XAP platform on Intel’s Nehalem chipset. XAP’s latest version 7 reached 1 million data updates per second and 2.6 million data retrievals per second with four client threads on the [...]

Cedric Mora recently pushed out his thesis on Cloud Computing in France, “a model that will transform companies”. It is well written and informative with some interesting statistics and observations and well worth a read over the holiday period if you get time.

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