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 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 [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Apr 2009
A research paper on Cloud Computing by McKinsey & Company entitled ‘Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing’ has kicked up a right old storm with various luminaries either for or against it. The premise of the results of the article are that for large organisations, if they adopt the cloud model, then they would be [...]
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 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 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 comes [...]
Cloud and Grid admin on 28 Feb 2009
A recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree totally with the article, but the ethos behind the article i.e. making it easier to trial products, try out solutions and build apps /services quicker to be build internal business cases is [...]
Cloud admin on 19 Feb 2009
Gartner has just released a report entitled “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“. It is a well written piece and is very useful if your company is considering a move into cloud either with a consumer offering or building an internal cloud offering.
Cloud admin on 24 Jan 2009
An interesting article at EBizQ looks at some recent analyst reports and supports the prediction that the current global downturn in the economy has resulted in a cost-conscious, capex-constrained economic environment in which cloud and SaaS are more appealing than ever.
Firstly they look at email and come to the conclusion that running an in-house email system [...]
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