Comments on: What is a Cloud

By: Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:45:55 +0000

With all the talk about "cloud computing" (my Google Alerts are absolutely buzzing on those keywords), I thought that I would take a step back and really think about the word cloud, merely as a thought provoking exercise. My post is here. Comments welcome.

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February 2008 - Review Post | John M Willis ESM Blog — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:23:41 +0000

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By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:22:49 +0000

By the way, I linked to you in my own cloud computing description today: http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/03/ah-yes-how-to-define-cloud-computing.html

By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:21:19 +0000

John,

This is a much more palatable definition than some others I have seen. If I stretch my definition of virtualization to include deployments to bare metal that require no action or knowledge by the application owner, then I can agree with all of it.

By: Paul Lancaster

Paul Lancaster — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:45:27 +0000

Berkay,

We offer Cent OS, RHEL, and Windows right now and we’ll eventually offer completely pre-built “application stacks” with LAMP or LAMJ or whatever “application containter” you need… Use the UI to deploy and manage servers and the network from a high level — get root/admin access to the server once it is “deployed” from the UI. GoGrid has a management interface that our engineering staff uses to manage all nodes in the GRID. We can grow the size of the GRID by adding servers and storage — which is completely invisible to an end user of the service. All servers automatically failover to another node should there be any issue with a “server” in the GRID — GoGrid is built using XEN and Intel Quad Core servers.

By: Berkay

Berkay — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:14:24 +0000

Paul, It’s perplexing to me that there is no technical information on your site about your offering. The only explanation is about how to provision the servers.
Do I get to install whatever OS I want? any application I want? Do I get shell access?
What is your grid technology? How do you ensure that if a physical server goes down, it does not impact my virtual servers?

How do people decide whether or not to use the service is beyond me..

By: Paul Lancaster

Paul Lancaster — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:00:19 +0000

http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/02/05/understanding-grid-computing/

By: Paul Lancaster

Paul Lancaster — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:07:59 +0000

You can see the site here: http://www.gogrid.com

By: Paul Lancaster

Paul Lancaster — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:07:32 +0000

Just what we are aiming to do — oh by the way — there is an SLA behind it too….

By: Berkay

Berkay — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:52:26 +0000

this works for me. I had written about clouds etc from software vendor point of view a while ago, and this explanation works fine.

http://www.ifountain.com/blog/Are+the+software+vendors+better+off+supporting+the+virtual+machine+as+the+platform%3F