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The Wisdom of Clouds
What the iPhone teaches us about cloud adoption

James Urquhart

27 Jun 2009 | 11:24 pm

Chris Hoff (now a colleague at Cisco, but long a phenomenal blogger in his own right) described in a recent post a fascinating analogy for the inevitable adoption of cloud computing--the adoption of the Apple iPhone: While I have often grouped Cloud Computing with the consumerization of IT (and the ...
The new generation of cloud-development platforms

James Urquhart

22 Jun 2009 | 2:15 pm

Software development "in the cloud" has been one of the really interesting developments to come out of the cloud computing market so far. While many early players, such as Zimky and Coghead died on the vine, there is a pretty robust Platform as a Service (or "PaaS") market out there today, with Google App Engine taking the most visible lead, and a pretty solid stable of Ruby on Rails-based hosting providers telling a compelling story of their own. Such success is driving some new players to seek the spotlight, however. I wanted to highlight two that I found most interesting. They are very…
IBM releases new enterprise cloud portfolio

James Urquhart

15 Jun 2009 | 11:26 pm

IBM launched late Monday a new portfolio of products and services for the enterprise cloud computing market, which the company claims builds on lessons learned from earlier cloud initiatives. Targeted at providing standardized platforms for specific computing workloads, the products and services, launched under the Smart Business and IBM CloudBurst ...
Open Cirrus research cloud gains new members

James Urquhart

8 Jun 2009 | 11:01 am

HP, Intel, and Yahoo are announcing Monday at the first Open Cirrus Summit that they have signed on three more research organizations to their joint cloud test bed. The new institutions include the Russian Academy of Sciences, South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, and MIMOS, a strategic research ...
The cloud conversation is changing

James Urquhart

6 Jun 2009 | 5:00 am

Update: Updated link to Hoff's terminology map and related image to his latest version. I was privileged to be a part of the Enterprise Cloud Summit that took place at the beginning of Interop in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The program was excellent, with an all-star list ...

Sustainable Global Clouds
VMware Studio 2.0 Beta is here!

Tarry Singh

4 Jul 2009 | 6:30 am

Some nice features I see with this stuff. I am downloading this baby, I’d suggest you do that too! Besides several fixes multiple new features have been added: * Windows Support (32 bit and 64 bit) 2003 & 2008 Server * Create multi-VM vApp and multi-VM VA [...]
The Rise Of Clouds

Cloud Researcher

3 Jul 2009 | 5:38 am

The concept fulfills the long-held dream of computing as a utility and thus represents an inflection point in the geography of computation and IT service delivery. It tries to replace the traditional ‘desktop-as-a-platform” with “internet-as-a-platform”, which can dynamically provide always on and always available IT services to address a wide range of needs, ranging from scientific research to e-commerce, over the web. Like all new technologies, they challenge some of our computing wisdom, change our assumptions and brings about a paradigm shift in how computing is provisioned,…
Virtual Box 3.0 released; Reddit fans are excited!

Tarry Singh

1 Jul 2009 | 3:06 pm

Look at it yourself. and here are the features This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: * Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual) * Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications [...]
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is here

Tarry Singh

1 Jul 2009 | 2:55 pm

The better alternative, he suggested, is a pre-fabricated environment based on open standards, which can be patched and upgraded together with upgrades offered up and down the entire stack. Instead of requiring administrators to cobble together enterprise IT architecture by improvisation, Oracle intends to offer a pre-fabricated systems in its stead that will include, within [...]
Gartner: Will VMware become the next Novell?

Tarry Singh

1 Jul 2009 | 2:43 pm

While some comments there [including mine] were re-pondering over the Gartner ponder, I just couldn’t help wondering over the session I just gave on Smart Metering the Clouds about the “stupidity” of us people/humans and how we always tend to choose/make the “right” decisions. History teaches us just one thing: “A distant memory of pain/defeat experienced [...]

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CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009

Mayank Gupta

3 Jul 2009 | 9:42 am

ProfitBase and GoIWx Announce Partnership to Bring Hosted SaaS Business Intelligence to North American MarketProfitBase has announced their partnership with GoIWx to bring a cost effective SaaS Business Intelligence (BI) solution to businesses in North America. "We have ready-to-use connectors for many business systems, including Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, AX and NAV, AS/400, Oracle and LS Retail AX and NAV to mention a few, and we can quickly configure new connectors for other business systems as well." Said Larry LeBlanc, President and CEO of ProfitBase NA Inc.Woodforest Financial Group…
Confessions of a Gen X-er – Screen Size Matters

Ben Kepes

3 Jul 2009 | 5:34 am

It pains me to say it but I’m a Gen X-er – admittedly I’m towards the younger end of Gen X but I’m there nonetheless. As such I’m no doubt seen as prehistoric, decrepit and pretty much due for the scrap heap. Despite all of this I’m fairly certain I’ve got a couple of years productive life left in me so I thought I’d advocate a little for the *aged* amongst us. A few months ago, and a little fatigued from carrying my functional but heavy Dell Vostro 1500 around the world for conferences, I decided to go down the netbook route – wanting something small, lightweight and easy…
Network Effects Will Lead to SaaS Vendor Lockin?

Krishnan Subramanian

3 Jul 2009 | 12:21 am

As people in US enter the long weekend of July 4th (independence day), we have something to ponder about the independence of SaaS users. Alistair Croll, writing on GigaOm, points us to the possibility of SaaS vendor lock-in as a result of network effects. Once a SaaS provider hits a certain size, secondary business models based on network and ecosystem effects can eclipse the initial business. This makes the economics of running a SaaS provider a bit strange: Too much focus on short-term revenues may undermine long-term success, because free helps reach critical mass, where new models can…
CloudNews for 2nd July. 2009

Sameer Gupta

2 Jul 2009 | 10:39 am

Nuxeo Takes Enterprise Doc Management to the CloudAccording to news, the open source Enterprise CMS vendor Nuxeo has taken its document management product to the cloud. Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition is now available in SaaS and promises security and reliability among other things. Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition takes advantage of the Nuxeo Cloud Services infrastructure (leveraging Amazon Web Services), which enables any application based on Nuxeo’s ECM platform to be cloud-friendly.Issue Management Application by Roundedcube Officially ReleasedRoundedcube Inc. announced the release of RC On-Track Issue…
Open Source And Cloud Computing Series: Some Cloud Computing Moves By Big Open Source Vendors

Krishnan Subramanian

2 Jul 2009 | 9:33 am

Often people wonder how Open Source Software vendors will adjust to the Cloud Computing era. We are increasingly seeing some traction in this regard. Recently, Redhat, the grand daddy of Open Source software, and Canonical, the company behind the glamorous Linux distribution Ubuntu, are making some noises in this space. Recently, Redhat announced a certification program and partner program with an aim to capture the imagination of Cloud users. Canonical also announced a similar plan in the name of "Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services". In this post, I will do a short recap on their plans.Redhat…

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IBM Cloud Computing Use Cases Group Releases Draft White Paper

enomaly

2 Jul 2009 | 1:44 pm

IBM's experiment with group authorship for Cloud Computing interoperability is starting to pay off. Earlier today, Doug Tidwell posted the first draft of a Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper produced extensively via a new Google group created to help define the various use case requires. The white paper was also released under a Creative Commons License with the intention of remixing for use within other white papers and marketing materials.In an email by Tidwell he said everything in the paper comes from the comments posted on the Google group. But also admits there are several areas that…
Gartner Asks, Can The Cloud Save The World?

enomaly

1 Jul 2009 | 6:21 pm

I'm currently at a wedding, killing time reading various blog feeds. In that task, I just read a generally insightful commentary thanks to particularly ridiculous question in a post by Eric Knipp at Gartner. In the post he asks if The Cloud Will Save The World?Initially I didn't see where he was going with this idea, spending a little too much time on his so called Killer [cloud] App - Application Platform-as-a-Service (APaaS). Moving to the good stuff, he points out that cloud computing is not "an easy button - in the abstract. Someone, somewhere, has to do heavy lifting in any software…
Digital Illustration: The Art of War, Vietnam Sunrise

enomaly

29 Jun 2009 | 6:22 pm

I'm currently in Halifax Nova Scotia attending my sister Yael's Wedding so I haven't had a chance to post anything new to the blog. So I thought I'd take this opportunity to show the more creative side of myself.Some of you may not know that before I was a cloud computing pundit or whatever it is you wish to call me. I used to spend my days as a graphic artist. Over the next few weeks I will be posting some of various works with the related stories about how the images came to be as well as who they we're created for.The Hendrix Back Story Ever since I was a kid I enjoyed a keen fascination…
Cloud Computing as a Euphemism

enomaly

26 Jun 2009 | 4:24 pm

I had another random thought, it might be crazy, but I thought I'd share it. I think I may have been completely wrong in describing cloud computing as a metaphor or analogy, or more simply as Internet centric infrastructure.Let me explain, the Internet is a physical network implementation. Basically the Internet can be thought of as a network of networks interconnected linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other physical hardware based aspects. In contrast the world wide web is a system of systems or a series of independent but interrelated elements comprising…
Defining Infinite

enomaly

26 Jun 2009 | 8:06 am

Just a random thought, recently I've mentioned the word infinite in a few of my posts. I thought I'd take a moment to briefly describe my view of the term as it relates to cloud computing.Infinite Capacity in Cloud ComputingAmazon EC2 is certainly finite, but for the user who needs quick access to a 1,000 AMI's it appears to be infinite. Or to put it another way, there is more capacity then any one user will ever need to use. Announcing The Enomaly Cloud Service Provider Edition | Twitter Me | Get Linkedin | Contact Reuven | Disclosure Policy

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BotchagalupeMarks for July 3rd - 11:29

John

3 Jul 2009 | 10:00 pm

These are my links for July 3rd from 11:29 to 13:48: E-Commerce News: Best of ECT News: The Cloud’s Growing SLA Ecosystem - It hasn't taken long for cloud computing to ramp up for prime time. Now that many companies have gotten over their initial reservations and are flocking to the cloud model, the question of what can and should go into a service level agreement is front and center. ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: The Day the Cloud Died - To not have a cloud bursting strategy in the age of cloud computing isn't just wrong — it's idiotic. From Austin back to the…
BotchagalupeMarks for July 2nd - 15:31

John

2 Jul 2009 | 10:00 pm

These are my links for July 2nd from 15:31 to 17:09: Amazon Threatens VPS Market | Cloudscaling - One of the more overlooked aspects of the cloud computing market is the imminent threat to the Virtual Private Server (VPS) market. Many look to the stardom success of Web 2.0 startups like Animoto and SmugMug, who clearly derive tremendous value from Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a measure of cloud computing adoption. Others point to the imminent embrace of ‘the Enterprise’ although uptake is still slow. CloudSwitch Raises $8 Million « Data Center Knowledge - Two rounds and $15…
My God, Their Not Wearing Any Pants!

John

2 Jul 2009 | 9:05 am
IT Management Guys - The Missing Years

John

2 Jul 2009 | 8:33 am

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BotchagalupeMarks for July 1st - 08:08

John

1 Jul 2009 | 10:00 pm

These are my links for July 1st from 08:08 to 09:37: ‘Mafiaboy’: Cloud Computing Will Cause Internet Security Meltdown - DarkReading - Notorious black-hat hacker warns that cloud-based computing will be "extremely dangerous," and explains how he got into hacking at age 15 Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker - Malcolm Rocks! Twitter May Start Suing Companies That Use The Word "Tweet" - TechCrunch dug up an interesting email in which a Twitter API team support person asked a developer to stop using the word "tweet":…

Software as Services
WebEx augurs ill for Cisco's cloud ambitions

Phil Wainewright

1 Jul 2009 | 1:04 pm

Color me skeptical, but I feel the detail behind yesterday and today’s Cisco Live event hasn’t matched the aspirations set out in executive keynotes. I like the vision set out by CEO John Chambers of providing a technology infrastructure that (as Oliver Marks puts it) does a better job of connecting people. I’m highly supportive when CTO Padmasree Warrior looks ahead to a future fabric of ‘intercloud’ interoperability standards — ending lock-in by individual cloud providers — and talks about ‘federation’ between cloud and on-premise. But when I…
LucidEra's demise is about money, not SaaS

Phil Wainewright

24 Jun 2009 | 2:27 pm

I’ve been struck by the contrasting reactions to two separate company shutdowns that have taken place this week. It emerged on Monday that SaaS business intelligence vendor LucidEra emailed customers late last week to inform them the company will cease operations at the end of this month. Immediately there was a flurry of blog posts debating what this meant for the future of SaaS and of SaaS BI in particular. Tech journalist Christina Torode even wrote that LucidEra’s demise harkens to ASP downfalls. Monday also brought the news that Clear, a subscription service that operates…
Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategy

Phil Wainewright

18 Jun 2009 | 5:54 am

My jaw dropped as I read this just-published CIO.com interview with SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka. Last week, John Wookey, executive vice-president of large enterprise on-demand, set out SAP’s commitment to on-demand in a widely-reported speech in Amsterdam (SAP this week reiterated the commitment in a corporate press release). This week, the company’s CTO had this to say about leading SaaS vendor Salesforce.com: “When [vendors] call their little salesforce-automation application a ‘platform’, that does actually bother me, as a technologist, to be honest with…
Adobe morphs the online spreadsheet

Phil Wainewright

17 Jun 2009 | 7:51 am

One thing I found especially interesting about Adobe’s new Acrobat.com announcements this week (Techmeme coverage here) is its hybrid spreadsheet/database application called Tables. I already discussed Adobe’s subscription model in another post earlier this month, What your bank can teach you about freemium, so I won’t elaborate on that aspect of the announcement beyond mentioning that we can now start to make a judgement whether Adobe has followed my fourth guideline, “Price for value.” Here’s the verdict from CloudAve’s Krishnan Subramanian:…
Netviewer aims to outshine WebEx in Europe

Phil Wainewright

16 Jun 2009 | 6:55 am

With more than 15,000 customers in 55 countries, one of Europe’s largest indigenous SaaS players is Germany’s Netviewer. Its online meeting platform is a rival to well-known US names such as WebEx (part of Cisco) and the GoToMyPC/GoToMeeting products from Citrix OnLine. Already the number two web meetings player in Europe in 2007 (according to market researcher Frost & Sullivan), the company added venture backing last year from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Online Venture Fund and European Founders Fund, the investment vehicle of Internet luminaries the Samwer brothers. I had…

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
Let them eat tweet

30 Jun 2009 | 2:33 pm

Does Twitter dumb us down or simply reveal our innate goofiness? That's the question that's been flittering about my skullcage after reading Gideon Rachman's column on the popular microblogging service in yesterday's Financial Times. In reviewing John McCain's vigorous tweet stream, Rachman observes that "some of the senator’s tweets make him sound like a peasant." He quotes one: “Meeting with Dr Kissinger – the smartest man in the world.” I have this picture in my mind of McCain and Kissinger sitting in comfortable armchairs in a well-appointed governmental office, a couple of aides…
Books for the times

29 Jun 2009 | 10:54 pm

The Big Switch gets a nice recommendation from Newsweek. It's #4 on the magazine's list of Fifty Books for Our Times. Here are the top ten: 1. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope 2. The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright 3. Prisoner of the State, by Zhao Ziyang 4. The Big Switch, by Nicholas Carr 5. The Bear, by William Faulkner 6. Winchell, by Neal Gabler 7. Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 8. Night Draws Near, by Anthony Shadid 9. Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely 10. God: A Biography, by Jack Miles...
Sivilized

27 Jun 2009 | 11:02 am

Michael Chabon, in an elegiac essay in the new edition of the New York Review of Books, rues the loss of the "Wilderness of Childhood" - the unparented, unfenced, only partially mapped territory that was once the scene of youth. It is by now an old theme, but he gives it a vigorous workout: As the national feeling of guilt over the extermination of the Indians led to the creation of a kind of cult of the Indian, so our children have become cult objects to us, too precious to be risked. At the same time they have become fetishes,...
The sour Wikipedian

27 Jun 2009 | 8:01 am

Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedians and 70 non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New Scientist puts it, Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new ideas." In their report on the results of the study, the scholars paint a picture of Wikipedians as social maladapts who "feel more comfortable expressing themselves on the net than they…
Banished

24 Jun 2009 | 2:05 pm

Do not ask for whom the Google tolls. It tolls for me. I woke up this morning to discover that I no longer exist. The entire contents of this blog has been erased from Google's index. Every post. Every last bon mot. Gone. Without a trace. Here, by way of illustration, is what you'll get if you google the word "google" and restrict the search to the roughtype.com domain: Now I know how Adam and Eve felt after God kicked their sorry asses out of Eden. I'm on my knees. Please, Google, I beg of you, let me back into...

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Outsource Your Beta Testing To Prefinery (Invites)

Leena Rao

3 Jul 2009 | 5:51 pm

The beta testing stage can be the cornerstone to the successful development of a new site. And many startups have to conduct and implement beta testing of sites, surveys and analytics internally, which can be an daunting task when you are launching a site. Prefinery lets startups outsource the whole beta invite process, from start to finish. Prefinery is offering 100 TechCrunch readers with beta invites to test the site. You can sign up here. Use the invitation code “TECHCRUNCH” when signing up for the service. Prefinery’s ambition is to create a valuable first experience…
FriendFeed Makes Its Search Results Real-Time Too

MG Siegler

2 Jul 2009 | 2:29 pm

Ever since its redesign a few months ago, FriendFeed has been one of the standard-bearers of the real-time web. That's because while a lot of sites claim to be real-time, FriendFeed is one of the few that actually updates continuously as data comes in. Starting today, any search you do will also get that same real-time treatment. Enter any query into FriendFeed's search box and you'll see a constantly updating stream of items related to it. It works for advanced searches too. Best of all, it also searches through comments left below items. And these results can even be embedded in other…
Google Enhances Gmail Labeling With Drag And Drop Feature, Retires Right-Side Labels

Leena Rao

1 Jul 2009 | 6:00 pm

Gmail is constantly adding features to help people become more organized. Today, Google has tweaked its Labels feature to add more functionality to the labels toolkit, helping users implement labels in a more organized way. Your labels will now be located in a new area on your Gmail interface, above your chat list and grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels. You can also now control which labels you'd like to show on your UI and you can hide the rest under a "more" tab. Of the more innovative features that has been added is the ability to drag and drop messages into…
Cloud Computing by the Hour

Cameron Christoffers

1 Jul 2009 | 2:00 pm

Earlier last month web hosting provider SoftLayer announced the availability of cloud services on an hourly basis. The offering includes flat hourly rates for cloud instances, while cloud storage is accessible on a pay-as-you-go basis. While most traditional cloud services (IBM, Savvis, AT&T, Terremark, etc) require multi-year commitments, the hosting industry has seemed to embrace commitments on a monthly basis. However, as cloud services have matured and the Web 2.0 audience has grown, the need for more flexible service offerings has become apparent. SoftLayer claims that demand from…
Google Apps Sync Fixed So That It Actually Works With Microsoft Outlook

Leena Rao

30 Jun 2009 | 6:43 pm

A few weeks ago, Google announced a new plug-in that would sync Google’s enterprise versions of Gmail, contacts, and calendar with Microsoft’s Outlook. This was a big deal because it not only made it simple for users seamlessly integrate both email applications but it also represented Google’s push to become a serious player in the enterprise apps space where Outlook is still overwhelmingly popular. Unfortunately, Google’s plug-in had some major faults. Most notably, the bug didn’t allow users find emails using Windows Desktop Search, essentially making the search…

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OMG Cloud Standards Summit

2 Jul 2009 | 12:44 pm

July 13-15, 2009, in Arlington, VA, the Object Management Group, is holding a Standards in Government & NGO's Workshop. During the first day, the Cloud Computing Standards Summit will focus on cloud computing standards for government clouds. Participants include:Peter Mell and Tim Grance - National Institutes of Standards and TechnologyReuven Cohen - Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum)Kevin Jackson - Dataline, LLCMark Carlson - Storage Network Industry AssociationWinston Bumpus - Distributed Management Task Force Robert Grossman - Open Cloud ConsortiumCraig Lee - Open Grid ForumNils…
NDU IRM Cloud Computing Event "Sold Out"!!!

2 Jul 2009 | 8:22 am

Hope you've already registered for the “The Cloud Computing Symposium” , Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at the National Defense University in Washington, DC! This promises to be the premier government cloud computing event of the year. I first blogged on the event on May 20th and recently they had to cut off registration at 850 !! This event has clearly drawn tremendous interest from both government and industry.Speakers, in agenda order, are:Dr. Robert Childs, Senior Director, IRM CollegeVivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information OfficerDave Girouard, President, Enterprise, GoogleDavid…
SSA's Jim Borland on Healthcare Information Technology

25 Jun 2009 | 3:00 am

Today, on this week's Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum webcast, Mr. Jim Borland, Special Advisor for Health IT, Office of the Commissioner, Social Security Administration(SSA), will discuss the value of health care information technology. His comments included the following:Every disability benefit claimant must have their medical records reviewed. Once the claimant authorizes medical record release, they are typically received by fax today. Fifteen million request for medical records from over 500,000 physicians and 6000 hospitals are processed every year.Health care information…
Dr. Leslie Lenert of CDC Speaks on Healthcare IT

24 Jun 2009 | 3:00 am

During this week's Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum pre-recording, Dr. Leslie Lenert, Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shared some of his thoughts on the future of health care information technology. His comments included the following:The NCPHI is focused on (1) improving the link between public health and our national clinical care systems and (2) automating public health practice.The biggest change in health care information technology is the establishment of two-waycommunications between…
Linda Fischetti on VHA Healthcare

23 Jun 2009 | 9:00 am

This week pre-recording of Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum featured Linda Fischetti , Health Informatics Architect at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). During a panel discussion, her comments on VHA accomplishments and plans included: Every Veteran's Administration facility uses electronic health records today. The New England Journal of Medicine recently complimented the VA on their use of electronichealth records (EHR).VHA currently has over 1400 points of care and has been using EHR for over 10 years with dramatic associated improvement in clinical health care…

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Hoff’s “Metastructure” and the Intercloud

gregness

29 Jun 2009 | 4:21 pm

The intercloud is the most interesting development in cloud computing (and perhaps the data center) since the migration of hypervisors into production environments. It’s a model for driving incredible scale and efficiency from IT systems and hardware, and it can be architected for both public and private clouds. The intercloud turns a global network of clouds [...]
See you at Cisco Live!

gregness

25 Jun 2009 | 1:42 pm

I’m moderating a panel July 1 on the data center of the future made up of a great team of executives from Cisco, Oracle, NetApp, VMware, EMC, APC, Emerson and Panduit. Hoping to catch up with a few friends after the panel. Drop me a line if you’re attending. [...]
Here Comes the Intercloud

gregness

19 Jun 2009 | 4:43 pm

I don’t know who coined the “intercloud” term, but it is a big step forward in defining the enterprise cloud endgame. See this Cisco blog and recent intercloud preso. As sexy and compelling an idea as it is, the Intercloud would probably today be a bane according to Mark Masterson, who created a brilliant presentation on [...]
DNSSEC | Dan Kaminsky | Cricket Liu | Scott Rose | Webinar Slides Now Available

gregness

10 Jun 2009 | 1:27 pm

You can get the slides for today’s DNSSEC webinar with Dan, Cricket and Scott here. The version with audio and slides will be available at the dns security center and the DNSSEC solution section next week. You can follow Cricket’s answers to questions asked about DNSSEC at the new Cricket Liu blog. [...]
Redmond: Netbooks are Disruptive

gregness

4 Jun 2009 | 11:28 am

A few months ago I blogged about the Three Horsemen of the Coming Network Revolution. One of those “horsemen” was the netbook computer. Now Microsoft wants to rename it. Maybe it has something to do with the impact of the netbook on the hard drive PC market and the powerful relationship with robust, pre-loaded operating [...]

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HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Ken Oestreich

29 Jun 2009 | 9:47 pm

I've been spending some significant time analyzing new entries into the blade computing market, and poking around in the corners where the trade rags and analysts have failed to investigate. And, as the line goes, "some of the answers may surprise you."The two big recent entrants/announcements were Cisco's Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HP's BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. They're also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success…
RTI Fabrics... not just a networking play

Ken Oestreich

11 Jun 2009 | 1:55 pm

Pete Manca, Egenera's CTO, posted an excellent Blog Explaining RTI Architectures, (a term coined by Gartner some time ago) and does a nice job of taking a pretty objective approach to 3 types:"A converged fabric architecture takes a single type of fabric (e.g. Ethernet) and converges various protocols on it in a shared fashion. For example, Cisco’s UCS converges IP and Fiber Channel (FC) packets on the same Ethernet fabric. Egenera’s fabric does the same thing on both Ethernet fabrics (with our Dell PAN System solution) and on an ATM fabric (on our BladeFrame solution)... "Dynamic Fabrics…
CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Ken Oestreich

2 Jun 2009 | 3:02 pm

Today I read the press release and Gordon Haff's analysis that Computer Associates has acquired Cassatt -- a former employer of mine.CA probably appreciates that they have a real gem. But like all things Tech, most cool products are not "build it and they will come". However, I can say that Bill Coleman (Cassatt's CEO) and Rob Gingell (Cassatt's CTO and former Sun Fellow) really have a break-the-glass vision. Now lets see if the new lease-on-life for the vision (and product) will take shape.Vision vs. speedbumpsCassatt's vision - led by Rob - is still out in front of the current IT trends...
New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Ken Oestreich

18 May 2009 | 7:11 am

Yesterday Amazon announced a new set of services for their EC2 "elastic compute cloud" and these perhaps represent the real "holy grail" for cloud computing. While not new concepts, they illustrate how "real" cloud computing elasticity works, and challenge a few other virtualization & automation providers to do the same.Amazon CloudWatch: A for-fee ($0.015 per AWS instance monitored) service that:provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources... It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns—including metrics such as…
Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud applications

Ken Oestreich

12 May 2009 | 9:33 am

I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction... But so little attention is being paid to identifying & profiling which applications are best-suited to actually run in an external "cloud."I'd like to see a comprehensive list (or decision-tree?) of what ideal application properties pre-dispose apps for being well-suited to run in a cloud. And, for that matter, what qualities might potentially disqualify apps from running in a cloud as well. (BTW, a great Blog by John Willis, Top 10 reasons for not using a cloud, was…

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Opera Unite

Markus Klems

16 Jun 2009 | 7:28 am

Opera 10 introduces a technology called Opera Unite, that extends your browser to become a Web server. The idea is to enable non-technical people to serve and share content and services from their local computer, such as file sharing, chat rooms, Web hosting, remote access to music files, etc. In a way, Opera Unite is an opposite trend to Cloud Computing where content is distributed and services are provided from large-scale data centers under the administrative domain of single providers, such as Amazon or Google. Instead, Opera Unite is a technology that borrows from ideas known in P2P and…
Zotero plus JungleDisk helps you manage your research sources

Markus Klems

9 Jun 2009 | 8:37 am

Today I tried out Zotero 2.0 beta in combination with JungleDisk@S3. Zotero comes as a Firefox plug-in that allows you to gather and organize information sources, such as research papers and blog posts. You can also sync local files, e.g. PDF documents, to a WebDAV server. First I looked into free solutions, such as GMX Media Center or setting up a local WebDAV FTP server. However, I came to the conclusion that using JungleDisk and Amazon S3 would be much easier and pricing is also not too expensive ($2/month for a JungleDisk subscription plus Amazon’s prices for S3). Set-up cost me 10…
Will the Cloud become a Common Good?

Markus Klems

21 May 2009 | 2:58 am

The Common Good In economics the term “common good” refers to a good that is rivalrous but not excludable. Fish is an example for a common good that (assuming there is no fishing regulation) is not excludable because anyone with a boat can go fishing. However, it is rivalrous since there is a limited number of fish in the oceans – and in fact overfishing is a problem in many regions of the world. The Internet as a Common Good I stumpled upon a EU document claiming the Internet was as a common good and therefore it would be necessary to reform Internet governance (PDF). The…
From Push to Pull

Markus Klems

26 Apr 2009 | 2:31 am

I recently came across a fascinating working paper by John Hagel: From Push to Pull (2005). Hagel’s work focuses on emerging approaches for mobilizing resources. He states that we are living in a “push” world, whereas new business opportunities and technology innovation arise from “pull” models. Push Push resources to areas of highest anticipated need, e.g. in education: standardized curricula in business: highly automated plants and service platforms to deliver resources to the right place at pre-determined times in technology: massive enterprise applications to…
OpenSpan – Workflow automization on the presentation layer

Markus Klems

20 Apr 2009 | 3:58 pm

Today was the first day of CloudSlam. There have been a few nice presentations, but one of them really kicked it off: OpenSpan. Francis Carden showed a very cool demo of how to do application and workflow integration on the presentation layer. With a few mouse clicks he created an application that integrates a legacy Windows app with the FedEx Website; then he showed how to build an application that leverages the Salesforce API in combination with a legacy “MiniCRM”. Francis explained that OpenSpan is not just screen scraping but an intelligent combination of reverse-engineered…

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Microsoft: Bad User Experience Is Cultural

smoothspan

1 Jul 2009 | 9:29 am

I just lost an hour of work to Microsoft Word because it clears the clipboard every time you start it up fresh. It’s been doing it for years. I knew about it, but I simply forgot. I was working on a blog post in WordPress, and decided I wouldn’t finish and wanted to transfer it to Word. I often transfer posts to Word because it gives better spelling and grammar checking. I would leave the doc on my Windows desktop at home, and finish when I returned. An additional complication was that I had accidentally published the article prematurely, and so I thought I’d…
Vision is Strategy. Execution is Tactics.

smoothspan

27 Jun 2009 | 9:33 am

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu from “The Ancient Art of War” Sarah Lacy is rehashing that old chestnut about whether vision or execution is more important, right down to the usual recasting of what some feel is visionary (Apple’s latest round of products) to merely fantastic execution. She’ll argue that if anyone else had even the glimmer of the idea before the visionary, that it is execution and not vision. There is the inevitable look at history with perfect 20/20…
The Role of Marketing is to Turn Strangers Into Friends, Or At Least Acquaintances

smoothspan

26 Jun 2009 | 10:41 am

I’ve asked a variety of SaaS CEO’s such as Concur’s Steve Singh what they see the role of web marketing as, and the answer that usually comes back is the role is to educate the prospect until they’re ready to be sold to. Educating the prospect is a very acceptible answer, but upon reading Seth Godin’s post about the difference between Strangers and Friends, I think that more can be accomplished. Godin, as usual, cuts directly to the chase: Strangers are justifiably suspicious. Friends give you the benefit of the doubt. It makes me want to ask, “How is…
What Was the Real Value of Newspapers in their Heyday? (Distribution not Content!)

smoothspan

26 Jun 2009 | 8:56 am

The newspaper industry has had a disasterous downturn, largely due to the web. Not surprisingly, many don’t want to take it laying down. WSJ publisher Les Hinton recently called Google a “digital vampire.” He suggests that if newspapers had never offered their content free on the web, there would be no problems. He goes on and on with odd language about the “charitable view” of how this all got started, as though somehow everyone but the newspapers was to blame. He vows that it isn’t too late to reverse the trend. Barry Diller echoes a similar…
Ironically, Big On-Prem Enterprise Software is the Most Customer Driven Software There Is

smoothspan

25 Jun 2009 | 8:23 am

Vinnie Merchandani thinks big Enterprise software involves building a lot of features nobody wants. He riffs about underutilized features and wishes for a market like the iPhone’s AppStore. He wishes SaaS vendors to use their real time visibility into what their customers are doing to give them that kind of market-driven visibility into what to build. Vinnie and I are fellow Enterprise Irregulars, and I really enjoy his perspective most of the time, but he has it all wrong on this one. Backwards in fact. Sorry Vinnie! You see, Big On-Premises Enterprise Software is more…

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CODA and Corefino Partner on Breakthrough Cloud Computing ... - PR Web (press release)

4 Jul 2009 | 12:17 am

CODA and Corefino Partner on Breakthrough Cloud Computing PR Web (press release)The new three-part accounting service, called Corefino 2go, combines the CODA 2go accounting package, built on the Force.com cloud computing platform, and more »
Cloud Computing & SOA: Getting the Links Straight Between Them - Ulitzer.com

3 Jul 2009 | 11:14 pm

Cloud Computing & SOA: Getting the Links Straight Between ThemUlitzer.comIt's when there's both a huge shift in thinking around how we should do computing, namely cloud computing, and at the same time, there's a bunch of and more »
How Government's Driving Cloud Computing Ahead - InformationWeek

3 Jul 2009 | 9:00 pm

SYS-CON Media (press release)How Government's Driving Cloud Computing AheadInformationWeekCloud computing may still be emerging as an IT delivery model, but US government agencies are forging ahead with plans to adopt cloud services Cloud Computing Changing the BusinessSYS-CON Media (press release)IBM Cloud Computing Use Cases Group Releases Draft White PaperSYS-CON Media (press release)all 3 news articles »
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it - CNET News

3 Jul 2009 | 6:05 am

CNET NewsOpen source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate itCNET NewsRedmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady writes a bleak, but likely accurate, eulogy for open source's relevance to cloud computing. and more »
RSA's Coviello: Cloud Computing Not Secure Enough - PC World

3 Jul 2009 | 2:41 am

RSA's Coviello: Cloud Computing Not Secure EnoughPC WorldArt Coviello: It was startling to me that a lot of this cloud computing was being done with security left behind, because I viewed cloud computing as an and more »

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An A to Z of Cloud Computing Companies in 2009

4 Jul 2009 | 6:45 am

A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its popular list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. read more
Yahoo! Named “Platinum Sponsor” of Cloud Computing Expo

3 Jul 2009 | 9:00 am

SYS-CON Events announced today that Yahoo!, a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California.read more
Backup Your Data Online to Amazon S3

3 Jul 2009 | 7:00 am

CloudBerry Lab has started a beta testing program for CloudBerry Online Backup - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.read more
IBM Cloud Computing Use Cases Group Releases Draft White Paper

3 Jul 2009 | 7:00 am

IBM's experiment with group authorship for Cloud Computing interoperability is starting to pay off. Earlier today, Doug Tidwell posted the first draft of a Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper produced extensively via a new Google group created to help define the various use case requires. The white paper was also released under a Creative Commons License with the intention of remixing for use within other white papers and marketing materials.read more
Is Cloud Computing Like Teenage Sex?

2 Jul 2009 | 7:00 pm

It was once said back in the early ‘90s that “Client/server computing is a little like teenage sex – everyone talks about it, few actually do it, and even fewer do it right. Nevertheless, many people believe client/server computing is the next major step in the evolution of corporate information systems." read more

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Developers and the Cloud Conundrum - TechNewsWorld

3 Jul 2009 | 9:08 am

Developers and the Cloud ConundrumTechNewsWorldSoltero elaborates on this viewpoint in his blog. Cloud computing, according to Soltero, imposes two dilemmas for developers. The first is that cloud app and more »
Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Announces Confirmations, Nominations ... - SYS-CON Media (press release)

3 Jul 2009 | 8:26 am

SYS-CON Media (press release)Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Announces Confirmations, Nominations SYS-CON Media (press release)With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Announces Confirmations, Nominations SYS-CON Media (press release)Dockwise investor factsheet June '09SYS-CON Media (press release)all 48 news articles »
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it - CNET News

3 Jul 2009 | 6:05 am

CNET NewsOpen source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate itCNET NewsRedmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady writes a bleak, but likely accurate, eulogy for open source's relevance to cloud computing. and more »
Google Apps Gets the Shaft but It's the Broader Cloud That Needs ... - eWeek

2 Jul 2009 | 12:09 pm

Google Apps Gets the Shaft but It's the Broader Cloud That Needs eWeekTechRepublic's Jason Hiner offered the usual arguments against Google Apps in this blog post. If you've been following the nascent cloud computing market, and more »
Blizzard chooses cloud over LAN for new game - CNET News

1 Jul 2009 | 2:49 pm

Blizzard chooses cloud over LAN for new gameCNET NewsWe will be seperated by buildings and distance so they can show off their Cloud Computing concept?!?! That is sheer and utter hogwash! and more »

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CLOUD & GRID EVENT BY THE ONLINE GAMING HIGH SCALABILITY SIG

wdevolder

15 Jun 2009 | 4:29 am

The first meeting of this Online Gaming High Scalability SIG will be on the 9th of July 2009 in central London, starting at 10 AM and finishing around 5PM. The main topic of this meeting will be potentials for using cloud and grid technologies in online gaming systems. In addition to experience reports from the community, we have invited some of the leading cloud experts in the UK to discuss the benefits such as resource elasticity and challenges such as storage and security that companies from other industries have experienced. We will have a track for IT managers focused on business…
Data grid comparison: Oracle Coherence vs Gigaspaces XAP

gojko

1 Jun 2009 | 8:08 am

A short summary of differences between Oracle Coherence and GigaSpaces XAP.
Is Eucalyptus ready to be your private cloud?

Todd Hoff

29 May 2009 | 7:48 am

Update:: Eucalyptus Goes Commercial with $5.5M Funding Round. This removes my objection that it's an academic project only. Go team go! Rich Wolski, professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, gave a spirited talk on Eucalyptus to a large group of very interested cloudsters at the Eucalyptus Cloud Meetup. If Rich could teach computer science at every school the state of the computer science industry would be stratospheric. Rich is dynamic, smart, passionate, and visionary. It's that vision that prompted him to create Eucalyptus in the first place. Rich and…
Wolfram|Alpha Architecture

geekr

15 May 2009 | 8:13 am

Making the world's knowledge computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Answer Engine vs Search Engine When Wolfram|Alpha launches later today, it will be one of the most computationally intensive websites on the internet. The Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine is an "answer engine" that is able to produce answers to various questions…
CloudCamp London 2: private clouds and standardisation

gojko

14 Nov 2008 | 3:31 am

CloudCamp returned to London yesterday, organised with the help of Skills Matter at the Crypt on the Clarkenwell green. The main topics of this cloud/grid computing community meeting were service-level agreements, connecting private and public clouds and standardisation issues.

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What's up in my Cloud? Private Enterprise Cloud Computing is what!

Kent Langley

30 Jun 2009 | 8:55 am

My business partner Mark and I started a cloud computing services company called nScaled right at the end of 2008. A few months into it we found an opportunity to launch our own cloud service; legalcloud.net. We've been working hard and have made much progress in a short period of time. It's been a wild and crazy ride to be a part of thus far. It is also the reason I haven't been blogging quite as much. So, what have I been working on?
re: Do Private Clouds Make Sense?

Kent Langley

29 May 2009 | 10:17 am

Quoting myself, I posted the following to the infosysblogs article, "You gonna buy a house, or rent one?" It's an article about some of the issues around private cloud computing feasibility more or less. My thoughts were: I thought this was an interesting article and the numbers you show are mostly inline with my own research in my endeavor to provide enterprise cloud computing services as a hybrid private community cloud.I've also been writing some of my thinking about these same issues at my own blog, www.productionscale.com.In general, I think that there is beginning to be some…
Cloud Deployment Models

Kent Langley

27 May 2009 | 10:24 am

I suppose I pay rather close attention to cloud deployment models for a variety of reasons. I ran across an article today at cio.com called, "How to Build a Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy." http://www.cio.com/article/493492/How_to_Build_a_Hybrid_Cloud_Computing_Strategy In particular, it listed three deployment models for cloud computing: Public clouds. These deliver the best economies of scale, but their shared infrastructure model can limit configuration, security, and SLA specificity, making them a less-than-ideal fit for services using sensitive data that is subject to compliancy…
Thinking Out Loud About My Private Cloud

Kent Langley

22 May 2009 | 1:12 pm

My writing on this blog has been much less frequent lately. As I suggested folks do WAY BACK in April 2008 I Got My Head in the Clouds. While my mother would argue that I've always had my head in the clouds, I certainly have had many adventures in the Cloud Computing space since I wrote that article. Lately I decided to eat my own dog food and launched www.legalcloud.net. I've been developing, deploying, and testing this Cloud Computing IaaS/PaaS service with my new business partner and host of top notch technology partners. It is an enterprise cloud computing service focused on the IT needs…
Drupal: Peformance and Scalability

Kent Langley

4 Apr 2009 | 11:41 am

Since I do work on Drupal sites from time to time and have built some very large ones I do keep an eye on the Drupal "stack" and change. But, I haven't revisted it for a while. A few months ago I posted an article about a Drupal stack that I had tested w/ a big media company to do 2.5 billion page views a a month. It was a lot of servers and some sophisticated modifications to Drupal. It's still a solid architecture but there are some new entries I thought I'd like to evaluate. I also deployed that one on Joyent so I was curious what I might be able to do with other cloud vendors. This time I…

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New Version of GoGrid Released: Server Image Selection, RAM, API and Architecture Changes

Michael Sheehan

2 Jul 2009 | 8:23 am

Last night we release a new version of GoGrid that has a few notable changes, specifically: Server Image Selection Widget Smart selection of RAM allocations (and 8 GB RAM options in web GUI) Updates to GoGrid API Enhancements to underlying Architecture Server Image Selection Widget The biggest visual change in this release is to how Windows and Linux Database, Web and Applications server images are selected within the GoGrid web interface. This is essentially the framework that will be used for the upcoming MyGSI feature. Since we continue to add new images to the GoGrid image repository, and…
Last Chance – GoGrid Free Trial Credit Ends July 2nd!

Michael Sheehan

24 Jun 2009 | 1:08 pm

For those of you waiting to try out Cloud Computing or GoGrid, I wanted to be sure that you were all aware that the $50 Free GoGrid Trial Credit program will be ending on July 2nd, 2009! We recently sent out an email to all of those people who had expressed some interest in GoGrid Cloud Computing Hosting and Infrastructure. However, that was just limited to people that we knew about. I wanted to make sure that others who are not on our mailing lists are informed about this important change. Below are the contents of the email: If you have been considering trying GoGrid’s award winning…
Newsletter: GoGrid Customer Update v1.9

Michael Sheehan

16 Jun 2009 | 2:13 pm

For those of you who are not currently GoGrid customers, I thought that it might be good to provide our latest GoGrid Newsletter online. Moving forward, I will be doing this every time the newsletter comes out. First, a little heads up. The current $50 Free GoGrid Trial will be expiring soon, so if you haven’t tried GoGrid out yet, I encourage you to do so…NOW! Simply visit this page to get started. Below is the GoGrid newsletter (v1.9): Hello, I want to reach out and give you an update on the software projects currently in-flight and their associated release dates. Our software…
Press Release: Cloud Computing Provider GoGrid Enables Highly Scalable Web Applications Using Zeus Technology

Michael Sheehan

2 Jun 2009 | 9:07 am

GoGrid is pleased to announce today our technology partnership with Zeus Technology. This strategic partnership brings Zeus’ leadership in software-based application traffic management to GoGrid’s Cloud Hosting infrastructure. Using Zeus’ ZXTM VA (Virtual Appliance), GoGrid customers can now add robust traffic management capabilities like traffic shaping and prioritization, content compression and service level monitoring, among others. Other benefits of using Zeus’ ZXTM include: TrafficScript—the most intuitive traffic routing language available Java Extensions for…
GoGrid/AppZero Webinar & Presentation Now Available

Michael Sheehan

1 Jun 2009 | 1:39 pm

Last week GoGrid held a joint webinar with AppZero titled “Moving Windows Server Applications to the Cloud in Three Easy Steps.” Over 70 people attended and many others have requested that we publish the webinar and presentation. For your convenience, we have the full webinar available below: The full PowerPoint presentation is also available online and you can see it below: GoGrid/AppZero: “Moving Windows Server Applications to the Cloud in 3 Easy Steps” View more OpenOffice presentations from Gogrid Cloud servers. If you have any questions about GoGrid or AppZero,…

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Yesterday we saw that 99% of email was spam!

Ross Cooney

30 Jun 2009 | 9:28 am

Our emailcloud protection system filters spam and viruses from email. Over the past few years we have seen rates of spam increasing from around 50% a few years ago to an average of 95%…but yesterday was special….we reached 99% spam on one of our spam clusters! This graph represents the traffic at our Liverpool facility yesterday, Monday 29th June 2009. This shows the number of simultaneous SMTP connections on the cluster every five minutes. The black line is legit email, the others graph different types of spam. Interesting points: The rate of spam is rather constant through the…
Scalable Web Hosting — BETA to launch in July

Ross Cooney

29 Jun 2009 | 4:05 am

Last year I helped a friend to build a scalable web hosting platform so that he can host around 100 client websites. Ever since then I have been thinking of a way that I could build a much larger system to provide as a true multi-tenanted service to companies like his. My idea was a really basic system, at a basic price. The system would initially only allow PHP and mysql sites. Over the past year I have been buying massive amounts of hardware and with my most recent purchase (a massive SAN) I think that we finally have enough hardware to start the system development work. The kit I have set…
SaaS vendor gets agile and slashes costs

Ross Cooney

25 Jun 2009 | 4:32 am

Rozmic Wireless, a global provider of email spam and virus protection has cut its operational costs and increased the efficiency and flexibility of its emailcloud service by deploying Arjuna Agility™. Agility dynamically manages Rozmic’s infrastructure, creating a single private cloud of in-house resources, from over 50 servers in two data centres, and allowing seamless integration with EC2, to deliver scalable capacity in line with customer demand. Rozmic’s software-as-a-service offering, emailcloud, is a fully managed email service that scans and removes unwanted email before it…
Private Clouds, a new area of computing science

Ross Cooney

25 Jun 2009 | 4:04 am

We all know that the phrase Cloud Computing is heavily abused by technology companies. Due to its broad definition it can be applied to a huge array of technology products and services. Many companies have simply re-invented themselves as ‘cloud’ providers by adding the badge to their existing services in the same way that whole industries have jumped on the ‘green’ bandwagon. Cloud Computing can be used to describe a very wide area of activity from SaaS to IaaS through PaaS, a huge array of activity. While it is very easy to hitch a ride on the cloud computing bandwagon, it is almost…
Initial thoughts on Google Wave

Ross Cooney

2 Jun 2009 | 3:26 am

Google have announced the imminent release of a new communication and collaborate tool called Google Wave (http://wave.google.com). This is a technology that was developed by Lars & Hans Rasmussen and a team of Google developers in Sidney Australia. I watched the 80 minute demo of the tool that Lars Rasmussen gave at the Google IO conference in San Francisco and I have been asking myself a few questions over the past few days… What are my initial reactions? As with all Google products or services…I am extremely impressed. I have not decided if I will ever use this service, but I see…

Inside Enterprise IT
More Embedded NICs on PowerEdge Servers a Game-Changer for Appliance OEMs

DELL-Franklin F

2 Jul 2009 | 1:30 pm

In response to many requests from our OEM customers, Dell has increased the number of embedded network interface cards (NICs) in our mainstream 1U and 2U PowerEdge servers (the PowerEdge R610 and R710) from two to four -- these truly are appliance-inspired systems. We have found that many of our customers use these platforms as the basis for appliances for telco, security and other vertical spaces. This may seem like a small thing to many, but we’ve learned that most of our customers using this class of server for network appliances, such as security gateways, VPN optimizers, and such,…
Thinking About Refreshing Clients? Take a Look at Energy Star 5

DELL-Jeremy B

1 Jul 2009 | 6:15 am

Offering enterprises energy smart solutions is nothing new for Dell. If you go back to November of last year when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star 5.0 specifications for client systems (desktops, laptops and workstations) were finalized, several of our existing products already met the new specifications. Today, we are pleased to announce that nearly all of our OptiPlex desktops, Latitude laptops and Dell Precision workstations that we have launched within the past year are available in configurations that meet Energy Star 5.0. Those include: Latitude 2100, E4200,…
Government Agencies Still Keen on IT Challenges

DELL-Max P

30 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am

With more than 95 percent of federal agencies using Dell systems, it was no surprise for us that Symantec’s annual Government Symposium conference participants were keen on discussing their IT and Security business challenges. The symposium provided a forum to listen to public sector customer’s requirements, experiences and solutions. During the E-Records Management/E-Discovery session, I moderated, there was a lot of interest around how government agencies “get started” when the problem requires collaboration around IT, RIM and legal expertise. Approaches…
Dell PowerEdge Servers Get a Gold Star - EPA Energy Star That Is

DELL-Matt M

25 Jun 2009 | 6:00 am

We’re all familiar with those blue and white Energy Star stickers that show us the average energy uses on our home appliances like refrigerators and clothes driers. Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released Energy Star specification for servers. The efficiency requirements are a positive step in creating an industry standard to help reduce power consumption. The focus on energy efficiency isn’t just about being tree-hugger-green, but more about saving green – as in dollars. Limitations on space, power and cooling capacity combined with rising energy…
Kyocera Simplifies IT With Dell

DELL-MaryKay H

24 Jun 2009 | 11:59 am

I used to have a Kyocera phone. I liked it well enough, but since my account is with Verizon and they don’t carry that brand anymore, I have since migrated to a LG’s enV(2). But when I had the chance to check out what Kyocera is doing in their IT department, it got me thinking about my old phone again, and wondering if I should try to get a new one. The business decisions Kyocera are making seem to be pretty smart, so I’m betting their phones are too. Recently, they were investigating new ways to meet customer demand for their communications services, and they turned to Dell…

Perspectives
Microsoft Bringing 35 Megawatts on-line

James Hamilton

30 Jun 2009 | 6:44 am

Microsoft announced yesterday that it was planning to bring both Chicago and Dublin online next month. Chicago is initially to be a 30MW critical load facility with a plan to build out to a booming 60MW. 2/3 of the facility is a high scale containerized facility. It’s great to see the world’s second modular data center going online (See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/04/01/RoughNotesDataCenterEfficiencySummitPosting3.aspx for details on an earlier Google facility). The containers in Chicago will hold 1,800 to 2,500 servers each. Assuming 200W/server, that’s 1/2…
ISCA 2009 Keynote II: Internet-Scale Service Infrastructure Efficiency

James Hamilton

24 Jun 2009 | 7:21 am

I presented the keynote at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2009 yesterday. Kathy Yelick kicked off the conference with the other keynote on Monday: How to Waste a Parallel Computer. Thanks to ISCA Program Chair Luiz Borroso for the invitation and for organizing an amazingly successful conference. I’m just sorry I had to leave a day early to attend a customer event this morning. My slides: Internet-Scale Service Infrastructure Efficiency. AbstractHigh-scale cloud services provide economies of scale of five to ten over small-scale deployments,…
ISCA 2009 Keynote I: How to Waste a Parallel Computer -- Kathy Yelick

James Hamilton

22 Jun 2009 | 8:04 am

Title: Ten Ways to Waste a Parallel Computer Speaker: Katherine Yelick An excellent keynote talk at ISCA 2009 in Austin this morning. My rough notes follow: · Moore’s law continues o Frequency growth replaced by core count growth · HPC has been working on this for more than a decade but HPC concerned as well · New World Order o Performance through parallelism o Power is overriding h/w concern…
PUE and Total Power Usage Efficiency (tPUE)

James Hamilton

14 Jun 2009 | 5:53 pm

I like Power Usage Effectiveness as a course measure of data center infrastructure efficiency. It gives us a way of speaking about the efficiency of the data center power distribution and mechanical equipment without having to qualify the discussion on the basis of server and storage used or utilization levels, or other issues not directly related to data center design. But, there are clear problems with the PUE metric. Any single metric that attempts reduce a complex system to a single number is going to both fail to model important details and it is going to be easy to game. PUE…
Erasure Coding and Cold Storage

James Hamilton

13 Jun 2009 | 10:42 am

Erasure coding provides redundancy for greater than single disk failure without 3x or higher redundancy. I still like full mirroring for hot data but the vast majority of the worlds data is cold and much of it never gets referenced after writing it: Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads. For less-than-hot workloads, erasure coding is an excellent solution. Companies such as EMC, Data Domain, Maidsafe, Allmydata, Cleversafe, and Panasas are all building products based upon erasure coding. At FAST 2009 in late February, A Performance Evaluation and…

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Pingbacks Not Suited For Dirty Minds: XenItalia.com

Robin Wauters

2 Jul 2009 | 5:27 am

————————————————————————————————————- ————————————————————————————————————— It’s always nice to get pingbacks on our blog posts, but sometimes they can be…
Diskeeper Offers Complimentary License for XP Mode on Windows 7

Robin Wauters

2 Jul 2009 | 5:17 am

————————————————————————————————————- ————————————————————————————————————— Diskeeper Corporation announced today that their End User Licence Agreement (EULA)…
VirtenSys Delivers Solution to Virtualize Servers’ Direct-Attached Storage and Disk Drives

Robin Wauters

2 Jul 2009 | 5:15 am

————————————————————————————————————- ————————————————————————————————————— VirtenSys today announced the industry’s first virtualization of storage…
Sun Microsystems Unleashes VirtualBox 3.0, Adds Many Server Virtualization Features

Robin Wauters

1 Jul 2009 | 2:26 am

————————————————————————————————————- ————————————————————————————————————— Sun Microsystems today announced a new version of Sun VirtualBox, its cross-platform…
Red Hat Launches Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program

Robin Wauters

1 Jul 2009 | 2:22 am

————————————————————————————————————- ————————————————————————————————————— Red Hat today announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program,…

Data Center Knowledge
Major Outage at Seattle Data Center

Rich Miller

3 Jul 2009 | 8:48 am

Multiple data centers at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza are offline after a fire in an electrical vault, which has left much of the complex without power and generator support. The largest impact has been extended downtime for the payment portal Authorize.net, which was offline for hours, leaving thousands of merchants unable to process credit card payments through their web sites. The downtime has also affected Microsoft’s Bing Travel service, Geocaching.com, domain registrar Dotster and web hosting provider AdHost, along with dozens of other sites. UPDATE: Power was…
Rackspace Expects Credits of $2.5 Million

Rich Miller

2 Jul 2009 | 1:54 pm

Rackspace Hosting (RAX) expects to issue customer service credits from Monday’s data center outage of between $2.5 million and $3.5 million, the company said in an SEC filing. An unusual series of equipment failures contributed to Monday’s power outage at a Rackspace data center near Dallas, in which several parts of the facility lost power. The most significant failure involved a bank of generators that malfunctioned, leaving several computing clusters without backup power. Other failures involved equipment that connects the data center to its two utility feeds, a UPS system…
Google App Engine Hit By Outage

Rich Miller

2 Jul 2009 | 11:10 am

The Google App Engine status page, showing the higher latency seen today (July 2). It’s been a rough week for uptime. Google App Engine has been struggling with performance problems for hours, and appears to be down. The problems began at 6:30 a,m, Pacific time, when App Engine began experiencing high latency and error rates. “All applications accessing the Datastore are affected,” Google said in a notice to developers. Shortly afterward the service went into “unplanned maintenance mode” and began operating as read-only, meaning developers couldn’t update…
Report: 1,400 Sites Hosted on Amazon EC2

Rich Miller

2 Jul 2009 | 7:41 am

How many large companies are using the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform to host their public web sites? Of the top 500,000 web sites, 1,422 are hosted on Amazon’s EC2 service, according to data from Infibase, which works out to about 0.28 percent of that sampling. The analysis is based on an analysis of the top 500,000 sites tracked by Quantcast and analyzed by tools developed by InfiBase, a cloud startup. The data provides only a small snapshot of how companies are using Amazon’s cloud, and doesn’t include the use of EC2 for back-end and back-office systems…
Just In Case: Facebook’s “Nuclear Option”

Rich Miller

2 Jul 2009 | 6:56 am

The Facebook infrastructure team has blogged about the challenges involved in its recent launch of usernames, which allow Facebook users to personalize or brand their profile URL. With more than 200 million users and a single login page URL, the launch of usernames was “unique in its preparation and potential for trouble,” Facebook’s Tom Cook writes on the Facebook engineering blog. Facebook VP of Technical ops Jonathan Heiliger discussed some of the launch management strategies at last week’s Velocity 2009 and Structure 09 conferences, including the use of a…

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Google App Engine plus Amazon AWS: Best of both worlds

Nati Shalom

25 Jun 2009 | 5:14 am

George Lawton wrote a a good summary of my JavaOne talk in his article titled Google App Engine plus Amazon AWS: Best of both worlds Google App Engine (GAE) is focused on making development easy, but limits your options. Amazon Web Services is focused on making development flexible, but complicates the development process. Real enterprise applications require both of these paradigms to achieve success… What we really want is the flexibility and performance of AWS and the simplicity and ease of use of GAE. This is exactly what we had been working on for the past year, leading us to the…
GigaSpaces Launches a New Version of its Cloud Computing Framework

Nati Shalom

1 Jun 2009 | 1:42 pm

We have been working for a while on our new Cloud Computing Framework (CCF). We wanted to wait until we had some real customers and partners behind the platform in production before spreading the word on a larger scale. And now, I am very happy to report that we have reached this point sooner than expected and just in time for the JavaOne event. The new version includes an enhanced integration with the Amazon billing system Devpay designed to enable users to use GigaSpaces as a service on a true pay per use model. All you need is an Amazon account and your done. Unlike other products, that…
The Need for Speed - Saving Costs By Improving Application Efficiency

Nati Shalom

31 May 2009 | 3:55 pm

In times like these, improving application performance isn't a major focus for most IT organizations. The common perception is that as long as you're meeting the bare minimum demanded by your users, you're okay - anything beyond that is a luxury you can’t afford. Well, I happen to think this perception is dead wrong: these days, you just can’t afford not to invest in high performance. The reason is simple: high performance == higher utilization. I’ll explain what I mean. If you do something that makes an application run 10 times faster (this is a typical performance boost experienced by…
Interesting talks, and free drinks in JavaOne

Nati Shalom

25 May 2009 | 11:46 am

Its been two years since I've last visited the JavaOne conference. This year is going to be particularly interesting as its going to be the first major Java event following the Oracle acquisition of Sun. I will have a Technical Session on Tuesday titled: Alternative to Google Application Engine for Java™ Technology-Based Applications, where I'm going to outline the difference between the Google and Amazon approach for cloud computing and discuss how we can combine the best of the two approaches. Argyn Kuketayev and Francis de la Cruz from Primatics is going to join me and present their…
GigaSpaces based solution makes it to the finalist of Cisco Developer Contest

Nati Shalom

19 May 2009 | 2:35 am

I was very pleased to read an email from Leonardo, who was the winner of the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge (a worldwide programming contest using the Gigaspaces application server which was held last year), saying that he is now a finalist in the Cisco developer contest. Here's a bit about him and the application he submitted: About Leonardo Leonardo worked for several ISPs in various roles as network administrator and java programmer for IT consulting firms, and finally as software architect in high-performance Java EE based projects. He is passionate about parallel programming, distributed…

Joyeur
100,000 Joyent Accelerators

David Young

2 Jul 2009 | 12:55 pm

We just delivered the 100,000th Joyent Accelerator to a customer. That’s a big milestone. Congratulations to the Joyent team. And congratulations to our customers who are doing such interesting things with Joyent Accelerators, everyone from Prince (the artist known as), to all the Facebook developers, to the many enterprise shops removing the barriers of IT from the innovations of smart developers. Onwards to 1,000,000.
Control Yourself

David Young

2 Jul 2009 | 7:47 am

We’re pleased to announce that Control Yourself, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), producer of Open Source Twitter alternative Laconica and host of the popular microblogging site identi.ca, launched a private beta of a new microblogging hosting service, status.net. The new service will be hosted on Joyent Accelerators to provide high-availability, highly-scalable microblogging sites to enterprises and Web communities. “We’re excited to be offering our services based on Joyent’s excellent platform,” said Evan Prodromou, CEO of Control Yourself and founder of the Laconica project.
Structure 09 in SF

Jason Hoffman

25 Jun 2009 | 1:00 am

I’m moderating the first panel of the day at Om’s Structure09 conference today. If you’re at the conference please make sure you say “Hi”.
What I would want a "cloud" to do for me: a functional view

Jason Hoffman

25 Jun 2009 | 12:56 am

I was on a panel at Enterprise 2.0 yesterday about “Cloud Computing” providers and wanted to take the entire definite of “what is cloud computing?” from a different perspective. As a consumer, I fundamentally want the entire technology stack for an application to Just work Just scale Just tell me everything Just works means that I tell an infrastructure that I want my application to have user experience X 99.99% of the time to 99.99% of the my users, and what I want back from that query is a dollar amount. I’ll then make a decision about what I can afford. Just…
Cloud Computing is actually Transparent Computing: there's shouldn't be anything cloudy about it

Jason Hoffman

15 Jun 2009 | 6:45 am

A little over a year ago Joyent was identified in a Forrester report as one of ten “Cloud Computing” companies to watch. The report was really the beginning of “Cloud Computing” being applied to those of us doing infrastructure and I think marks the point in time when the term really began to appear in marketing materials. Our inclusion on that list was notable because we were the only privately held company on the list that operates their own server farms and develops their own software stack to instantiate and manage it all. Since then it’s been cloud cloud…

Joyeur
100,000 Joyent Accelerators

David Young

2 Jul 2009 | 12:55 pm

We just delivered the 100,000th Joyent Accelerator to a customer. That’s a big milestone. Congratulations to the Joyent team. And congratulations to our customers who are doing such interesting things with Joyent Accelerators, everyone from Prince (the artist known as), to all the Facebook developers, to the many enterprise shops removing the barriers of IT from the innovations of smart developers. Onwards to 1,000,000.
Control Yourself

David Young

2 Jul 2009 | 7:47 am

We’re pleased to announce that Control Yourself, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), producer of Open Source Twitter alternative Laconica and host of the popular microblogging site identi.ca, launched a private beta of a new microblogging hosting service, status.net. The new service will be hosted on Joyent Accelerators to provide high-availability, highly-scalable microblogging sites to enterprises and Web communities. “We’re excited to be offering our services based on Joyent’s excellent platform,” said Evan Prodromou, CEO of Control Yourself and founder of the Laconica project.
Structure 09 in SF

Jason Hoffman

25 Jun 2009 | 1:00 am

I’m moderating the first panel of the day at Om’s Structure09 conference today. If you’re at the conference please make sure you say “Hi”.
What I would want a "cloud" to do for me: a functional view

Jason Hoffman

25 Jun 2009 | 12:56 am

I was on a panel at Enterprise 2.0 yesterday about “Cloud Computing” providers and wanted to take the entire definite of “what is cloud computing?” from a different perspective. As a consumer, I fundamentally want the entire technology stack for an application to Just work Just scale Just tell me everything Just works means that I tell an infrastructure that I want my application to have user experience X 99.99% of the time to 99.99% of the my users, and what I want back from that query is a dollar amount. I’ll then make a decision about what I can afford. Just…
Cloud Computing is actually Transparent Computing: there's shouldn't be anything cloudy about it

Jason Hoffman

15 Jun 2009 | 6:45 am

A little over a year ago Joyent was identified in a Forrester report as one of ten “Cloud Computing” companies to watch. The report was really the beginning of “Cloud Computing” being applied to those of us doing infrastructure and I think marks the point in time when the term really began to appear in marketing materials. Our inclusion on that list was notable because we were the only privately held company on the list that operates their own server farms and develops their own software stack to instantiate and manage it all. Since then it’s been cloud cloud…

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Shell script for automated Amazon EC2 personal proxy server « Sprayfly

awsbuzz

3 Jul 2009 | 5:58 am

"What I really needed was a pay as you go proxy server where you would only be charged when you actually use the server and for the amount of bandwidth used."
The new generation of cloud-development platforms | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News

awsbuzz

2 Jul 2009 | 5:24 pm

"Both of these new options give me new hope for software development in the cloud, though each for a different reason."
InfiBase Blog » Blog Archive » Top Sites on Amazon EC2 – July 2009

awsbuzz

2 Jul 2009 | 10:56 am

"It’s easy to see that the larger websites are leading the pack and moving to Amazon first. "
The CapCal Blog: Why Self-Service and On-Demand are Critical

awsbuzz

2 Jul 2009 | 10:11 am

"The buzz around here now is about moving CapCal to EC2 and running load tests on itself to test the autoscaling and load balancing features. Stay tuned! "
YouTube - Android App for Amazon SimpleDB

awsbuzz

26 Jun 2009 | 12:24 pm

"Android App that queries Amazon SimpleDB. Uses Android Compatible Java library developed for SimpleDB. "

Amazon Web Services Blog
The Cloud as a Platform for Platforms

AWS Evangelist

2 Jul 2009 | 9:48 am

Of the many things I love about AWS, I will mention three of my favorites in this blog post: AWS does not force developers to use any particular programming model, language, or operating system. AWS does not force developers to use the entire suite of services - they can use any of our infrastructure services individually or in any combination. AWS does not limit developers to a pre-set amount of storage, bandwidth, or computing resources they can consume - they can use as much or as little as they wish, and only pay for what they use. Our customers love this flexibility. Today, a…
Scaling to the Stars

AWS Evangelist

27 Jun 2009 | 10:39 am

Recently I blogged about The Server Labs, a consultancy that specializes in high-performance computing – including on Amazon Web Services. Here’s another story that I found fascinating: nominally it is about how The Server Labs uses Amazon Web Services as a scale-out solution that also implements Oracle databases; however it’s really about space exploration (or should I say “nebula computing”). It began with an email asking whether there would be a problem running up to 1,000 Amazon EC2 High-CPU Extra-Large instances. The Server Labs is a software development/consulting group based…
Webinar: How to Create Secure Test and Dev Environments on the Cloud

AWS Evangelist

24 Jun 2009 | 10:09 am
AWS Management Console Support for CloudFront

AWS Evangelist

23 Jun 2009 | 5:05 pm

The AWS Management Console has a brand new tab: This new tab contains full support for Amazon CloudFront. You can start distributing your content in minutes. You don't need to make a long term commitment and you don't need to download a client application. It is now even easier to access CloudFront in pay-as-you-go fashion. After selecting the tab you will see a list of all of your CloudFront distributions: You can select any distribution to see detailed information about it. You can also create a new distribution by clicking the Create Distribution button and filling in the resulting dialog:…
Gowalla - Location-based iPhone 3G Application

AWS Evangelist

23 Jun 2009 | 1:49 pm

Gowalla is a location-based iPhone game. Currently focused on Austin, Boston, New York, and San Francisco, the application runs on any iPhone 3G with the location-based services turned on. You use Gowalla to collect "virtual souvenirs" by visiting specified locations in each city, neatly combining the virtual and the real worlds. A product of Alamofire, Gowalla runs on EC2 and makes extensive use of S3, SQS, and SimpleDB. To learn more, you can watch Alamofire founder Scott Raymond's presentation at the Scotland on Rails conference. In the video, Scott talks about the pros and cons of using…

Cloudscaling
Amazon Threatens VPS Market

randybias

30 Jun 2009 | 9:00 am

One of the more overlooked aspects of the cloud computing market is the imminent threat to the Virtual Private Server (VPS) market. Many look to the stardom success of Web 2.0 startups like Animoto and SmugMug, who clearly derive tremendous value from Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a measure of cloud computing adoption. Others point to the imminent embrace of ‘the Enterprise’ although uptake is still slow. Unaccounted for in all of this is where the real dollars in today’s market are. The reality is that they are largely provided by VPS customers. Possibly as much as…
Infrastructure as Code Presentations

randybias

26 Jun 2009 | 11:09 am

If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ‘09. I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only spent a day at Velocity, but suffice it to say that some very smart people attend these events. In particular, the Velocity Conference is more of a technology conference for people who are developers or operators and want to build highly scalable infrastructure. There were a few particular presentations I wanted…
Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

randybias

22 Jun 2009 | 9:15 am

What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases? There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything. Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop provide an alternative mechanism for storing and processing large sets of data that don’t necessarily have extensive relationships needing modeling. These technologies allow for a much more scalable solution. In fact, they help in two ways: one by allowing an application to process more data using…
Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds

randybias

15 Jun 2009 | 9:15 am

Happiness in Business If you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds). Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) clinched the ‘first’ and ‘best’ titles for the general marketplace, your best bet is to pick a subset of the market to focus on. Focused clouds find a sweet spot and exploit it. This is really Business 101 for Startups. A diagram I saw recently by Ben Caddell brought this into focus and provides a very simple to understand reminder for those…
Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds

randybias

5 Jun 2009 | 9:30 am

Ever wonder where the other big guys are in the cloud computing space? If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are general purpose service clouds set to dominate as ecosystem plays, then what about those big companies that can’t deliver an ecosystem, but have the size to play ball? (See Pt. 1: Service Clouds). The answer is they play to win on price. Enter … commodity clouds. Infrastructure Commodity Clouds Recently large providers like AT&T announced their entry into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market and some bigcos with a vision, like British…

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Presentación sobre Cloud Computing en el Sun Open Communities Forum

Diego Parrilla

22 Jun 2009 | 11:05 pm

Los pasados jueves y viernes 18 y 19 de junio respectivamente se celebraron en la Escuela Politécnica Superior de la Universidad San Pablo CEU (Boadilla del Monte, Madrid) el evento “Sun Open Communities Forum”. Víctor M. Fernández hizo una interesante presentación sobre Cloud Computing. Aquí la tenéis. Post relacionados:Abiquo libera AbiCloud, su plataforma de Cloud Computing bajo licencia open sourceCloud Computing Workshop en Madrid con Amazon y Abiquo¿Está preparada España para el Cloud Computing?Mi charla en el WhyFLOSS Madrid 2009 sobre Nubes y Clientes…
Charla con Tim Barker, Cloud Computing Evangelist de Salesforce.com

Diego Parrilla

21 Jun 2009 | 4:45 pm

El pasado miércoles me invitaron a charlar con Tim Barker, Director Senior de Marketing de producto EMEA y Cloud Computing Evangelist de Salesforce.com. Aprovechando que pasaba por Madrid para participar como ponente en la Red Innova. Tim fue co-fundador de Koral, una compañía con sede en UK de Gestión de Contenidos de SaaS que más tarde, en el año 2007, fue adquirida por Salesforce.com. Tim cogió las maletas y se fue a San Francisco, condujo con éxito la integración de la platafoma de Koral a Force.com y, a su vez, puso en marcha la aplicación ahora conocida como Contenido de…
Nubeblog links del 15/6 al 21/6

Diego Parrilla

21 Jun 2009 | 12:43 am

Enlaces compartidos en del.icio.us por nubeblog LinkedIn: Cloud Networking Group News – Etiquetas: [networking] ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: The Big Blue Cloud, Getting Ready for the Zettabyte Age – Etiquetas: [cloud trends scalability data] IBM & Cloud Computing: How WebSphere CloudBurst Delivers Consumability | Cloud Computing Journal – Etiquetas: [cloud websphere ibm appliance cloudburst] Cloud Computing could replace outsourcing, says Gartner | BusinessCloud9 – Etiquetas: [cloud trends outsourcing] ISPs Should Decide If They Provide a Utility or a Service…
Impresiones del CloudCamp Barcelona

Diego Parrilla

17 Jun 2009 | 4:13 pm

Ya se que llega con un poco de retraso, pero me gustaría escribir un poco sobre lo que pasó en el CloudCamp que se celebró en Barcelona el 15 de Junio. Os aseguro que organizar un evento no es nada sencillo, ya que todo son detalles. Y son detalles que todo los asistentes pueden ver. Así que me mi más sincera enhorabuena a Diego Mariño y Helena Torras por parte de Abiquo y a David Nielsen por parte de la organización CloudCamp ya que dieron la talla. Para empezar no sabíamos cual sería la respuesta de la gente. ¿Habría muchos, habría pocos asistentes? Al final se llenó el aforo…
Abicloud 0.7.0 liberada

Diego Parrilla

14 Jun 2009 | 11:03 pm

La semana pasada liberamos en Abiquo la versión 0.7.0 de Abicloud, nuestro producto para construir tu propia Nube -ya sea pública o privada- sobre tu propia infraestructura. Aunque la hemos marcado no como un cambio de release sino como un incremento, realmente estamos ante una auténtica release ya que hemos modificado la plataforma a nivel de arquitectura para poder soportar dos nuevas funcionalidades fundamentales: Sistema de gestión de eventos (Eventing): La plataforma incorpora ahora nuevos componentes y agentes que permiten trazar el estado de los nodos del Cluster de servidores…

Mosso: The Hosting Cloud
CyberGamer Beats the Boss and Conquers the Cloud

Jessica Beers

2 Jul 2009 | 12:20 pm

CyberGamer, a free website dedicated to competitive online gaming, supplies both PC and console (Xbox360) users with ladders, leagues, forums, file libraries, galleries, and many other features, promoting online community and offering gamers the opportunity to compete against others with similar interests. Initially inspired by Call of Duty, Jeremy “Asterix” Klaosen and James “sn@p!” Burroughs founded CyberGamer.com.au on April 9th, 2007, building it from the ground up and quickly expanding the site to include a variety of games. Today the founders spend most of their time adding…
Watch Video from Structure 2009

jnahidi

1 Jul 2009 | 1:40 pm

Couldn’t make it to Structure 09? You can still listen in on all of the conversations that took place – just check out their video at: LiveStream.com/GigaOmTV Keynotes, mininotes, discussions and panels are all available – including our very own Lew Moorman speaking about “Building the Perfect Host for Web Apps.” Want to see it? Just visit the link above, click the “On Demand” button in the lower-center of the player, and select the second panel with Rohit Sharma. Enjoy! Got you thinking? Raise some questions? We’re here to help! Ring us at 1-877-934-0409,…
Coding in the Cloud – Rule 1 - Cache is Your Friend

Jessica Beers

25 Jun 2009 | 11:40 am

Coding in the Cloud By Adrian Otto This post kicks off a series on rules for coding in the cloud. I’ve taken some notes – mainly from observing applications fail repeatedly. And what do I mean by failing? The trouble usually comes in one of three forms: o Not scaling as traffic comes in. o Site fails to function under high load, resulting in complete failure. o Getting a huge, unexpected bill for overages. These three nasty things can happen on a cloud if your site is not coded properly. I’ve thought about the things that lead to these tragedies and looked at some recommendations…
Twit App Totals Are In!

Jessica Beers

25 Jun 2009 | 8:54 am

Last month we kicked off this contest, asking for your vote on your favorite Twitter Applications. The votes are in, and TweetDeck topped the deck with 25% of the overall vote! Tweetie was a close runner-up at 21%, followed by dailyRT at 12% and twhirl at 6%. Some of the other nominees? Digsby, Hootsuite, and Seesmic all made an appearance, as did UberTwitter and Twitterberry. Thanks to everyone who entered and played along – we collected the names of everyone who voted into a fishbowl and drew a name…drumroll please…Special congrats to Cary Mayo, our random winner – you’ve just won…
Hadoop Has Arrived: Hadoop Summit 2009

Jessica Beers

24 Jun 2009 | 2:01 pm

Jonathan Ellis, System Architect for The Rackspace Cloud here. Last week I flew to California to attend the Hadoop Summit and NoSQL conference. Hadoop is the leading open-source project for MapReduce computation and supporting infrastructure (such as HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed FileSystem based on the GFS design). The 2008 Hadoop summit saw about 150 attendees; 2009 had literally five times that number. I am not a Hadoop expert but as a Cassandra developer, I’m interested in meeting people working with large datasets and there was no better place for that than the Hadoop summit. Hadoop…

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Cloud Computing Webinar June 30th

Ryan Koop

26 Jun 2009 | 5:19 am

On Tuesday June 30th, Simone Brunozzi of Amazon Web Services, Michael Crandell and Edward Goldberg of RightScale, and our own Patrick Kerpan will be presenting the live webinar How to Create Secure Test and Dev Environments on the Cloud. Unlike other vapor-ware presentations that seem to be the norm in the extremely crowded cloud computing space. This webinar will cover products and practices that are being used by our customers now and are available today. Tired of hand waving and and promises of future release dates? It's time to get real. If you are interested we can show you…
The Difference Between Like and Love

Ryan Koop

18 Jun 2009 | 10:17 am

We see it all the time on ElasticServer.com. Take a look at our QuickTip Videos to learn how the Elastic Server Factory can make you react to custom virtual or cloud servers the same way you would to your favorite sports team or celebutant.Cheers.
VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Announced

Ryan Koop

3 Jun 2009 | 9:00 am

WARNING CAPITAL LETTERS AHEAD!CohesiveFT has always been about YOU our customer. All of our products and services have been built with one word in mind YOU. It's YOUR software stack, YOUR data center, YOUR cloud computing project, who are we to tell you how to run your business? Our most recent product release, VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Edition, was brought to market with your interests in mind. We found that while many enterprises were extremely comfortable installing our VPN-Cubed Manager Virtual Appliances in their data centers, some were reluctant to install new software or didn't have the…
Now THIS is loosely coupled automation infrastructure!

Patrick Kerpan

19 May 2009 | 12:43 am

The Elastic Server team recently announced the ability to use the ES Factory to assemble and deploy images to Eucalyptus Clouds and has been working with some trial users on our test platform. Last week it was released to our production site. 2pm: Released to production2:07pm Inbound "contact me" email from our website: Name: "new euca guy" Email: "new euca guy"@gmail.com Subject: Eucalyptus Deployment Request Message: I wanted to enable my cloud with your service.2:30pm One of our team points this person to the page in ES where you enter your Eucalyptus Credentials to connect to a Eucalyptus…
Securing your Elastic Server

Ryan Koop

14 May 2009 | 8:59 am

A server by any other name is still a server. At the end of the day a virtual server is just a server, and an Elastic Server is no different: we just fill it with more goodness. And like a bare-metal server, it needs to be secured against the bad guys.How much you'll want to secure your Elastic Server depends on your requirements, opinions and philosophies for security. Some people might be comfortable with running SSH openly, including allowing root access, other people will lock everything down so tightly you'd need direct access to break in.The purpose of this document is to give some…

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SaaS: Towards an Agile Business Architecture

Michael Dunham

11 Jun 2009 | 6:08 pm

A lot has been said about what Software as a Service is and is not - and we’ve been part of the noise. I really feel however there is something bigger going on. There is a tsunami coming and SaaS is only one of many waves. People have said SaaS is: A delivery method enabled by the spread of low cost broadband A technical architecture (multitenancy) that provides higher efficiency and lower costs (in the best implementations anyway) A business model led by direct responsibility for service to end-users An alternative to the traditional capital investment model of software licensing A low…
SaaS: Marketing Afterthoughts

Michael Dunham

20 May 2009 | 3:58 pm

I really enjoy working with entrepreneurs - helping them flesh out their ideas and making them successful. But too often I have to ask them - “What is going to make someone look at your product? How will they find it?” My theory: For SaaS products, marketing should not be an afterthought. Marketing is not a bolt-on for successful companies - it is part of their DNA. Recently I’ve been working to enhance Scio’s assessment consulting for SaaS products. I’ve been going over past work with clients, proposals, document templates - all the chaff that builds up when you…
SaaS: More FUD on Multitenancy

Michael Dunham

14 Apr 2009 | 3:07 pm

As anyone who follows me knows - I use Twitter and TweetDeck to watch the “virtual conversations” about SaaS happening around the ‘net when I can. Today some time was freed-up by a conference call that was delayed so I fired up TweetDeck and took a look around. Imagine my surprise when I read a meme had started around a blog post touting single-tenancy for enterprise SaaS applications. I’m not going to link to the original post - the writer has his reasons for pushing the idea - they are not entirely wrong, his context is different than mine and most readers of this…
SaaS: All PaaS are Not Created Equal

Michael Dunham

27 Mar 2009 | 2:54 pm

We’ve given a couple of webinars recently with our partners Apprenda (archived copy here) and OpSource focused on the key issues ISVs need to consider when developing a SaaS product. One of the areas we covered that received a lot of interest was “Platform as a Service” - PaaS and what it can bring to a SaaS product development project. Let me start out by saying that in the fog of high tech marketing hype - a great number of products are described as “platforms” for SaaS development. I’m not going to try to parse which specific products are or are not…
SaaS Metrics: SaaSoNomics 102A

Michael Dunham

16 Mar 2009 | 4:27 pm

At the recent OpSource SaaS Summit 09, I had the opportunity to meet many entrepreneurs either operating a SaaS business or preparing to offer a product as SaaS. I was not surprised to see that the most popular sessions were based on marketing, sales compensation, sales channels and “Thriving Not Just Surviving.” In this economy it is critical to understand the practical issues around running a successful SaaS business model. In this article, I’m going to cover some examples of using SaaS metrics to guide business operations. If you haven’t read our SaaSoNomics 101…

BlueLock
Gartner identifies ideal attributes of cloud computing

1 Jul 2009 | 10:16 am

Wondering what attributes the experts at Gartner define cloud computing by? Read on my friend.Cloud computing is getting bigger, better and more mainstream every day. Now whether or not the term will (or should) survive is another question, but Gartner has released an outline of the attributes that they follow when deciding if a company/service falls into the “cloud” category, which is relevant in a time when everyone and their mother AND brother are jumping on the bandwagon (I heard about a company who claims to be a “cloud computing billing company” at a recent…
New Way of Thinking about Cloud Computing

29 Jun 2009 | 12:07 pm

Reuven Cohen, a loud and important name in cloud computing has pointed towards a new way of looking at the definition of cloud computing. He argues that we should look at cloud computing as a euphemism rather then trying to define it through a metaphor or analogy or by simplifying it as internet-centric infrastructure.Cohen says: "To put it another way, the problem with describing cloud computing as a metaphor for the Internet is it's actually a "euphemism" for the world wide web.According to wikipedia, Euphemisms may be formed in a number of ways. A Periphrasis or…
Jackson News Slows Sites

29 Jun 2009 | 5:54 am

Last week with the death of megastar Michael Jackon, news sites and social media outlets posting the earliest reports of the death of Jackson experienced availability problems as web users around the world sought to confirm the tragic news. TMZ.com was the first site to post the news and was soon kicked off line due to the immense amount of traffic that hit the site. Twitter struggled and even turned off search features to slow the load. Many of the other large news sites were slowed as well including ABC, NBC, AOL, CBS, and Yahoo! News. Reuven Cohen of Elastic Vapor…
Findings: Cloud Confusion Amongst IT Professionals

26 Jun 2009 | 6:30 am

Version One has produced the findings of a survey showing that 41% of Senior IT Professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. However, this is by no means an aggregate of the findings of what could have been a much larger survey. The findings are based on the responses of only 60 senior IT professionals all of whom are from the UK, in various private and public sector organizations. They had released a prior study that showed that two-thirds of UK’s senior finance professionals were confused about cloud computing.However, there…
CloudCamp Columbus Next Week!

25 Jun 2009 | 1:05 pm

It's getting down to crunchtime for CloudCamp Columbus registration! The event is taking place at TechColumbus in Columbus, OH on June 30th. For more information what CloudCamp is and how to register go to www.cloudcamp.com. If you haven't attended one yet, I can't tell you how compelling the events are. Very interactive and entertaining - register today!

Cassatt Data Center Dialog
A front row seat for the private cloud evolution: our top content

Jay Fry

22 Jun 2009 | 9:20 am

An interesting way to get a bead on the future is to take a moment to look back at how it evolved. Amidst the flurry of the recent announcement of CA's acquisition deal with Cassatt, I nearly missed an important milestone of my own: the Cassatt Data Center Dialog blog has been going strong for 6 months now. Now, that probably still makes this blog a neophyte in industry terms, but I figure it's
Cassatt cloud innovation added to CA muscle

Jay Fry

2 Jun 2009 | 7:11 am

For those who have been watching and wondering what's next for Cassatt, the wait is over. CA announced today that they are the new home for much of what Cassatt has to offer: technology assets, patents, and a very significant chunk of the employees. After the dire situation that Quentin Hardy wrote about in Forbes back in April, this is certainly a win for Cassatt and those with vested interest
Old habits die hard: the bad news on data center energy efficiency

Jay Fry

31 May 2009 | 5:09 pm

Despite the batch of pretty good news I reported in my previous post about the trends we see in how data center managers are approaching energy efficiency from 2008 to 2009, there is some bad news. Isn't there always?But before we get too gloomy, it should be noted that much of the media, vendor, and customer discussion about energy efficiency over the past few years seems to have paid off in
Measurement matters: survey finds improvements in data center energy efficiency, but...

Jay Fry

27 May 2009 | 8:44 pm

When we ran our 2008 Cassatt Data Center Energy Efficiency survey, the topic was really at the forefront of the industry conversation. Green IT was everywhere you looked. It was a perfect time to ask questions (and get some intriguing answers) about how data center managers were approaching their power issues.Fast-forward a year to 2009.As we planned out the questions for our 2nd annual Data
Internal or external clouds? Both, say end users (or "Cloud computing data you won't hear about in Vegas")

Jay Fry

20 May 2009 | 1:56 pm

Some people have all the luck. Some get to spend the better part of a week in the gilded gaming halls of Vegas, staving off hundred-degree heat with extreme air conditioning, waving their slot machine credit vouchers in one hand and their free drinks in the other, while supposedly learning a thing or two about cloud computing.Ah, Vegas trade shows. The goal is to survive without leaving too much

Power in the Cloud
What should a situational application platform look like? A lively discussion

Jonathan Sapir

20 Jun 2009 | 5:58 am

A lively discussion on what a sit app platform should look like has erupted on the LinkedIn Situational APplication Group. Here is my contribution to the dicussion: My experience with Force.com is instructive. With Force, there is a very clear distinction between the configuration of an application and writing extensions to the platform. So an analyst-level person with a good understanding of databases and workflow can build out the contours of a pretty sophisticated business application. And they can easily identify those areas of the system that require further programming (primarily…
What is a situational application anyway?

Jonathan Sapir

18 Jun 2009 | 2:32 pm

Dennis Baron poses the interesting question: What do situational applications have to do with BPM? He then kicks off a discussion about how to define a situational application. Here is my take on it: The key characteristics of a situational application are: 1. They are "good enough" - no time is wasted on trying to make it pretty or scalable or high performance, etc. 2. They are developed and deployed quickly. This is where a cloud platform comes in. There is no need to procure hardware, or be concerned with authentication and security etc - all these things are built into the platform and…
IBM releases "Application Creator for Business Users"

Jonathan Sapir

17 Jun 2009 | 6:35 pm

IBM research in "goal driven development" has resulted in a very interesting new product called IBM Application Creator for Business Users. It's definitely worth taking for a spin. More on this soon.
Michael Hugos reviews "Power in the Cloud: Building Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos""

Jonathan Sapir

11 Jun 2009 | 5:25 pm

"Jonathan lays out a clear picture of the forces driving change in the traditional IT organization and then he goes on to provide a clear picture of how IT organizations must change to reposition themselvesand deliver a new value proposition to the companies they support. His description of the role of repositioned IT groups and the emergence of what he calls the 'Situational Application Analyst' is right on target. IT and business executives will profit from reading this book and implimenting its recommendations." - - Michael Hugos, award winning CIO and author of Business Agility:…
CAP Gemini CTO: Situational Software is the ‘Killer Application’ for Enterprise 2.0

Jonathan Sapir

2 Jun 2009 | 7:06 am

Andy Mulholland,Global Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini and author of the groundbreaking book Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual, makes the case that situational software is the new killer app. As he says: "It’s time to look at how IT adapts its role to enable this newcomer within its overall support for the business." This is covered extensively in Power in the Cloud.

The 2.0 Life
My 21st Birthday Geek Wish List

David Pierce

3 Jul 2009 | 9:26 pm

Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter As I begin this post, it’s exactly 38 minutes before I officially turn 21. It’s very exciting. Vegas, anyone? Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting the inevitable question: “what do you want for your birthday?” For years, I’ve always said the same thing: “I don’t know, whatever’s fine.” That, for the record, is a huge mistake. Not being specific means crappy gifts you don’t get to be mad about – not a good combination. But this year, I’ve got it covered.
My System is Broken. Help!

David Pierce

2 Jul 2009 | 10:19 am

Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter So, as we’ve all figured out by now, you (the readers of The 2.0 Life – a smart, attractive bunch) are much smarter than I am. You’re constantly alerting me to the best and the brightest of the Web, and engaging in fantastic and fascinating conversation on this blog and elsewhere. So now, in an effort to solicit the fantastic advice and genius of the readers of this site, I’m hoping you can help me. My productivity system is broken. I’ve got a perfect, foolproof, loophole-free system – and I just don’t use it.
Dunkin’ Donuts: A Prototype for Branding and the Social Web

David Pierce

29 Jun 2009 | 12:26 pm

Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter Major companies and corporations, it appears, are finally understanding how significant this whole "Internet" thing must just actually be. For a series of tubes, it’s become a pretty big deal. The potential benefits of this are fantastic, both for companies and consumers. For us, the consumers, it means we get more personal, transparent, and efficient interaction with the huge companies that used to just ignore us and put us on hold for 37 minutes, playing the same Sting song over and over. And over. Thanks to the Web, things might just…
15 Must-Have Web Apps for Students

David Pierce

27 Jun 2009 | 10:21 pm

This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer. For more from Karen, check out her blog about Online College Courses, or follow her on Twitter College students are increasingly reliant on computers – and, for many of us, that means spending tons of money software that we’d rather not use anyway. The reality, though, is that there are a ton of great, free alternatives out there for almost any purpose. Using free web apps is an easy and cost-effective way to increase your academic productivity. A well-designed app can also replace expensive software products and free up space on your…
4 Apps for Crazy-Awesome Screenshots

Squealer

25 Jun 2009 | 9:54 am

Post by Squealer from Squealing Rat. Find Squealer on Twitter When I write How-To articles, it always strikes me how easy they would be to do if I didn’t write anything and simply showed a screencast. But alas, I write. Screencasts can be helpful for showing your friend how to do something, taking a video of your latest creation or simply having some fun. Here are some helpful tools, and tips. At this point, some may be asking, "What the heck are screencasts?" Well, screencasts are basically videos of your screen, that often include a voice over explaining what is happening on…

George Reese on O'Reilly Broadcast
The First Step into the Cloud: Which Kinds of Applications Make the Most Sense?

George Reese

23 Jun 2009 | 6:22 pm

A key to successfully integrating the public cloud into your IT infrastructure is identifying a first application that will provide you with measurable results and learnings that can apply to future deployments without putting your business at risk. IT annoyances make the ideal first cloud projects.
A Quick Look at Amazon CloudWatch, Load Balancing, and Auto-Scaling

George Reese

1 Jun 2009 | 11:11 am

Amazon recently made available to the public three new services that will have a huge impact on the way people architect systems to be deployed in the Amazon cloud. I have put together my first look thoughts on these new offerings. . All three pieces significantly enhance what you can do with an infrastructure deployed in AWS, but they have their limitations.
The Five Laws of Implementing a Login Solution

George Reese

19 May 2009 | 5:50 pm

So, you're implementing a new software system that requires user authentication and management? Personally, I'm tired of seeing web sites fail to include a number of basic elements in their user management schemes. These Laws for Authentication Systems should not be violated regardless of how important or unimportant security is for you. If you decide to write your own solution or pick a packaged solution, make sure that system does not violate these laws.
Google's Failings Say Little about Cloud Computing

George Reese

16 May 2009 | 10:06 am

Every time an individual cloud vendor suffers a failure like last week's networking issues with Google, mindless bloggers rush out to suggest the failures of one company represent failures of cloud computing in general. It's time to hold this logical fallacy up to the light and learn what we really can learn from any given incident.
Transparency: The Key to Cloud Security

George Reese

19 Apr 2009 | 1:43 pm

If your cloud provider refuses to answer any specific question about their security architecture related to your security requirements, run--don't walk--away from that vendor. Security is one of the first things businesses mention when discussing fears about cloud computing. Cloud computing represents a loss of control for customers and these fears are therefore very valid.

Data Center Networks
Peace Corps Reduced Costs by $185,315 First Year Using WAN Optimization

fenmeng@cisco.com

2 Jul 2009 | 4:29 pm

The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From that inspiration grew an agency of the federal government devoted to world peace and friendship. Since that time, more than 195,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 139 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation. Recently, Peace Corps has deployed Cisco router-embedded WAN…
Cisco and EMC talk about FCoE standardization

fenmeng@cisco.com

1 Jul 2009 | 10:02 am

At Cisco Live I had the opportunity to organize a meeting with Stuart Miniman -EMC Technologist CTO Office - and Kash Shaikh -Senior Manager, Cisco Data Center Solutions- to talk about FCoe Standardization and the impact on the market . Here is the first part of the conversation
Daily Blogger Techminute -Data Center - Cisco Live 2009 Day 2

fenmeng@cisco.com

30 Jun 2009 | 6:02 pm

Tonight Cisco Omar Sultan, James Urquhart, Chris Hoff and EMC Stuart Miniman , Chad Sakac , joined me at the Marriott Hotel to share about their second day at Cisco Live. Today we were at lunch with David Lawler, VP of Marketing Server Access and Virtualization, who gave a presentation about Cisco Unified Computing System. David summarized his major thoughts in a three minute video. .
Daily Blogger Techminute -Cisco Live San Francisco

fenmeng@cisco.com

30 Jun 2009 | 5:37 am

Cisco Data Center Solutions James Urquhart, Chris Hoff and EMC Technologist Stuart Miniman share their first impressions at Cisco Live 2009 If you are not in San Francisco today, you can watch John Chambers key notes, as well as the supersessions with Intel Kirk Skaugen in visiting Cisco Live Virtual
Setting Up a DMZ in a Virtual World

fenmeng@cisco.com

29 Jun 2009 | 5:38 pm

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