Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Security 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cloud and HPC admin on 06 Mar 2009
We see these questions time and time again – “How do I design for Peak load” and “How do I scale out on the cloud?”. First lets figure out how to give some definition for Peak load: We will make a stab at defining peak load as: “A percentage of activity on a day/week/month/year that [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 26 Feb 2009
A new book co-authored by Jim Liddle, one of the contributors to this blog has been released entitled “TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The aim of TheSavvyGuideTo book range is to get people up to speed as quickly as possible on the subject matter of the books. Although the book covers a [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 22 Feb 2009
Without a doubt the credit crunch is affecting everyone big and small. Firstly jobs are being shed, even from previously impervious organisations. Microsoft announced that it was cutting 5,000 jobs worldwide, Intel announced it was cutting between 5-6,000 of its 83,000 employees, and SAP announced it was to reduce it’s 51,500 headcount by 3,000 before [...]
Cloud admin on 18 Feb 2009
Jean-Lou Dupont has created a Mindmap of all the Cloud Computing players. It’s public and you can clone it or export it as an image. It’s a useful reference of who is doing what in the space.
Cloud admin on 13 Feb 2009
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 [...]
Cloud admin on 01 Feb 2009
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 [...]
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