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« Previous EntriesDo we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on […]
Taking the Hype out of Hyperic’s new Cloudstatus.
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Ok boys, slow down a bit there. I know we are all in a hurry to capitalize on the new industry buzz around the “Clouds”. However, after taking a brief look at Hyperic’s new CloudStatus, it looks like they are riding on all the “hype” associated with the cloud rather than looking for […]
IntrIdea Rolls out Scalr, Updates MediaPlug, Builds Community
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Some more tools for Amzon’s EC2. With a special eye on Scalr an open source infratructure tool for EC2…
IntrIdea Rolls out Scalr, Updates MediaPlug, Builds Community
Great Overview of How SmugMug Uses Amazon EC2/S3
Sunday, June 15th, 2008The SmugMug Approach to Using Amazon’s S3 and EC2
Other link…
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/06/03/skynet-lives-aka-ec2-smugmug/
Biggest Under Reported Story: Google’s BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon’s SimpleDB
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Biggest Under Reported Story: Google’s BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon’s SimpleDB
Read the comments as well there is a lot of great additional info there.
Amazon Adds High-CPU Instances
Friday, May 30th, 2008Amazon EC2 Instance Types
High-CPU Instances
Instances of this family have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications.
1.7 GB of memory
5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
350 GB of instance storage
32-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
Price: $0.20 per instance hour
High-CPU Medium Instance
7 GB of memory
20 […]
That’s What I’m Talking About - 3Tera
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Virtualization holds lots of promise: Move your physical machines to virtual ones, and you’ll reclaim capacity at the same time that you make operations easier. But applications seldom run on one machine; instead they’re a combination of servers, switches and routers. 3Tera’s recently announced product road map may let companies provision whole data centers atop […]
Does a Cloud Have to be a Grid?
Friday, May 16th, 2008Honestly I am not sure. Are Mosso and IBM’s Blue Cloud grids? My guess is no. Therefore are they both still clouds. I would say yes to the former and no the latter.
I have tried to avoid Dell’s Blog about cloud computing because I liken it to the “Fox in the Hen House.” I am […]
Cloud Cafe Podcast #3
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008In this third podcast I have a discussion with Michael Crandell the CEO of Rightscale. Michael is a real down to earth kind of CEO who loves the clouds. He gave me an overview of the Rightscale offering. We also talked about some examples of what people are doing with the clouds […]
April 2008 Review Post
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008The end of April has been a little crazy with me traveling to Japan, Australia, and Poland all in three weeks. However my “No Country for Old IT Guys” thread has been getting quite a bit of activity.
The month started with my first Cloud Café Podcast featuring James Urquhart of Cassatt and later […]
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2]: Initial Thoughts on Security Implications
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2]: Initial Thoughts on Security Implications
A Good TechCrunch on AWS - Hold the Mayo
Friday, April 25th, 2008Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups.
…most of them are not the startups that are normally associated with on-demand computing. Rather the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a […]
Is Alpha is the New Beta?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008I was looking over some of these new Bungee Labs announcements. They seem like exciting announcements however … Amazon EC2 is in Beta. Bungee Labs is announcing a “Beta” service in Jun 2008 that will run on Amazon’s Beta. All I keep seeing from a lot of these “Cloud” providers are announcements of pre-announcements that […]
Amazon V Google (What Me Worry)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008No rest for the weary over at Amazon. Today they announced another huge feature. The are going to provide support for AWS. As far as I can tell they are pretty much ready to go prime time (i.e., out of Beta).
Here is a list of the recent annoucmenets for Amazon’s AWS:
Amazon Web […]
Google App Engine on EC2?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Sticking with their theme of build once and output anywhere the clever guys at CohesiveFT have figured out a way of building Google App Engine instances on platforms other than Google. Who need a stinking waiting list…
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Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 .. Well How About That?
Monday, April 14th, 2008Imagine an EC2 image that retains all of its data after its been spinning for a month or so. Well it’s currently under development. Amazon has announced on their development forum they are working with a few vendors adding support for persistent storage. This will be a huge enhancement for Amazon AWS.
Here are some highlights:
Independant […]
Cloud Cafe Podcast #2
Friday, April 11th, 2008This was a fun podcast with two of the founders of CohesiveFT, Alexis Richardson and Patrick Kerpan. They gave me a great overview of their product ESOD. We also talked a little bit about the Google App Engine announcement. I think you will enjoy this podcast.
Listen to the Podcast Here
I wanted […]
Cloud Computing With Python: Google App Engine and Amazon
Friday, April 11th, 2008I will be giving my “Cloud Talk” presentation at the May The Atlanta Python Meetup Group. The esteemed “Python Guru” Noah Gift will first be giving a presentation on “Using Google Engine To Write Python Web Applications”. Who better to get a first glimpse of the new Google App Engine offering from. […]
AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group
Friday, April 11th, 2008We have a venue for the AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group. The Georgia Tech ATDC has graciously allowed us to use their facilities for out meetings.
Agenda:
7:00 Introduction and Group Charter
7:15 David Wright of JungleDisk - AWS and JungleDisk Overview
8:00 Break
8:15 John Willis - Demystifying Clouds (Cloud Talk)
Discussions about the new […]
Businessweek Cloud Smackdown
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Is like me trying to sing RAP music. Last night Businessweek posted an article about “Clouds”. I know this is not supposed to be a technical publication however there are far too many inaccuracies in this article to be ignored.
Amazon’s EC2 cost is .010 per hour not .020.
IBM, HP, and SUN have not long […]
