Cloud admin on 27 Aug 2009
It’s often said that the Cloud will be a game changer and disruptive and that statement is put out there for the future but I believe we have already seen a huge example of this in the mobile telecommunications domain. We have seen in the last twelve months the beginning of a fundamental change 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 [...]
Cloud admin on 03 Aug 2009
The Windows Azure cloud platform includes Windows Azure, a Web-based Microsoft SQL Azure, and connectivity / interoperability services with .NET Services. As with other Cloud platforms, Azure is a consumption-based pricing model. A summary of the pricing is below and more details can be found here:
- Compute @ $0.12 / hour
- Storage @ $0.15 / [...]
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 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 and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 08 May 2009
Some of the key things to think about when putting your application on the cloud are discussed below. Cloud computing is relatively new, and best practice is still being established. However we can learn from earlier technologies and concepts such as utility compute, SaaS, outsourcing and even internal enterprise centre management, as well as from [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Apr 2009
Compliance and regulatory concerns are often voiced when it comes to Cloud Computing, and often many of the interesting types of applications organisations would like to deploy to the cloud are often those governed by some form of regulatory standard. Lets look in more details at one of these.
PCI DSS is a set of comprehensive requirements for [...]
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 [...]
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 09 Mar 2009
Simone Brunozzi, technology evangelist for AWS in Europe, posted some further success stories / use cases for Amazon Web Services in Europe and Asia on the Amazon blog – I’ve reposted the article below as it always makes interesting reading to see how companies are embracing cloud computing, and particularly what the details are of [...]
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