IT Management and Cloud Blog » cloud computing http://www.johnmwillis.com JOHNMWILLIS BLOG Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:36:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Cloud Cafe – Interop 2009 Discussions #4 http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-4/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-4 http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-4/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 16:00:08 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1678 Last but certainly not least James Urquhart of Wisdom of Clouds and Cisco.

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]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-2/feed/ 0 Cloud Cafe – Interop 2009 Discussions #1 http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-1/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-1 http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-1/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 15:48:56 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1675 After my Interop session “Lots to Love, Less to Use: How Enterprises Can Embrace the Cloud” I sort of hit the jackpot. I was able round up an impressive group of cloud thought leaders for some one on one interviews. John Janakiraman, Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Skytap, was my my first victim.

]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-cafe-interop-2009-discussions-1/feed/ 0 Amazon Cloud Big News http://www.johnmwillis.com/ec2/amazon-cloud-big-news/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amazon-cloud-big-news http://www.johnmwillis.com/ec2/amazon-cloud-big-news/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 11:13:05 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1662 Monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2. It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns — including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. To use Amazon CloudWatch, simply select the Amazon EC2 instances that you’d like to monitor; within minutes, Amazon CloudWatch will begin aggregating and storing monitoring data that can be accessed using web service APIs or Command Line Tools.

Auto Scaling

Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define. With Auto Scaling, you can ensure that the number of Amazon EC2 instances you’re using scales up seamlessly during demand spikes to maintain performance, and scales down automatically during demand lulls to minimize costs. Auto Scaling is particularly well suited for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage. Auto Scaling is enabled by Amazon CloudWatch and available at no additional charge beyond Amazon CloudWatch fees.

Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. It enables you to achieve even greater fault tolerance in your applications, seamlessly providing the amount of load balancing capacity needed in response to incoming application traffic. Elastic Load Balancing detects unhealthy instances within a pool and automatically reroutes traffic to healthy instances until the unhealthy instances have been restored. Customers can enable Elastic Load Balancing within a single Availability Zone or across multiple zones for even more consistent application performance.

Like all Amazon Web Services and features, Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Load Balancing are available on a pay-as-you-go basis with no up-front fee, minimum spend or long term commitment. Auto Scaling is free to Amazon CloudWatch customers. Each instance launched by Auto Scaling is automatically enabled for monitoring and the Amazon CloudWatch monitoring charge will be applied.

]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/ec2/amazon-cloud-big-news/feed/ 0 Cloud Podcasts http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-podcasts/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cloud-podcasts http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-podcasts/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:19:02 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1552 Here is a list of five of my podcasts, in order, that might serve as a good introduction and tutorial on the topic of “clouds”.

Cloud Cafe Podcast #30 -What is a Cloud from the Beginning

It only took 30 podcasts to figure out a way to get my favorate analyst, and IT management co host on my Cloud Cafe series. Actually I wanted the 30th podcast to be special and I had this idea of doing a “What is a Cloud from the Beginning” a few weeks back. At first I was going to do it all by myself, then I thought how cool would it be to get Michael Coté to interview me. I always have a great time being a co host on his “IT Management” podcast series and he really has a great style for doing podcasts. We hammer out all of the basics for what is a cloud.

Cloud Cafe Podcast #27 -What is a Cloud?

I guess it might seem silly to ask this question after 26 podcasts on said subject. However, when you get a chance to ask this question to two smart guys like Geva Perry (Thinking out Cloud) and James Urquhart (Wisdom of Clouds) the the question doesn’t seem that silly. We walk through a lot of the cloud definitions being used today and try to put “some” sanity to all the cloud defintions being used in the cloud-o-sphere.

Cloud Cafe Podcast #9 – Enomaly

This is another great podcast. I had the opportunity to have a discussion with Reuven Cohen the founder Enomaly. Reuven is one of the rock stars of the “cloud” discussion. We really beat the bushes on all topics cloud on this podcast. If you are a junkie of the “cloud” this is a must.

Cloud Cafe Podcast #21 -Eucalyptus Cloud

Do you miss talking to your old college professor? Are you a cloud Junkie? Then you MUST listen to Rich Wolski talk about Clouds, Grids, a little bit about educating our kids. This was one of my favorite all time podcasts.

Cloud Cafe Podcast #8 – Animoto

In this podcast I was able to speak to another customer of the “cloud”. Brad Jefferson the CEO of Animoto shares some of his experiences and thoughts about the cloud. Animoto uses Rightscale as their cloud infrastructure partner. Brad discusses their infamous 50 to 5k servers in one week experience. Again Mike Colletti and Florence Neal getting it done withe their artistic contributions.

]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-podcasts/feed/ 0 Into Thin Air http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/into-thin-air/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=into-thin-air http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/into-thin-air/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:45:53 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1535 My IBM Pulse 2009 article has been published by SearchServerVirtualization.

IBM Blue Cloud: More than thin air

]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/into-thin-air/feed/ 0 Stop Saying 3 Layer SPI, It’s Now 9 layers http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/stop-saying-3-layer-spi-its-not-9-layers/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-saying-3-layer-spi-its-not-9-layers http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/stop-saying-3-layer-spi-its-not-9-layers/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:58:27 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1519

]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/stop-saying-3-layer-spi-its-not-9-layers/feed/ 1 IT Management and Cloud Blog January Roundup http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/it-management-and-cloud-blog-january-roundup/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-management-and-cloud-blog-january-roundup http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/it-management-and-cloud-blog-january-roundup/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:23:19 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1502 Blog Posts: ]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/it-management-and-cloud-blog-january-roundup/feed/ 0 A Breif History of IBM Cloud http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/a-breif-history-of-ibm-cloud/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-breif-history-of-ibm-cloud http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/a-breif-history-of-ibm-cloud/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:15:47 +0000 John http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1500 Google and the Wisdom of Clouds ]]> http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/a-breif-history-of-ibm-cloud/feed/ 0