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BotchagalupeMarks for July 27th – 09:06
By John | July 28, 2009
These are my links for July 27th from 09:06 to 14:20:
- Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Maria Spinola: An Essential Guide to Cloud Computing – Maria Spinola, a Strategic IT Marketing and Innovation Adviser and editor at www.Cloudviews.org, has recently published An "Essential Guide to Possibilities and Risk of Cloud Computing". Her very pragmatic approach has provided "a realistic perspective of the possibilities, benefits and risks of Cloud Computing; what to look for, what to avoid, and also some tips and best practices on implementation, architecture and vendor management strategies."
- Cloud Brokers: The Next Big Opportunity? « Data Center Knowledge – As enterprises struggle to sort out the array of cloud computing options and services, analysts see a growing opportunity for “cloud brokers” to serve as intermediaries between end users and cloud providers. These cloud middlemen will help companies choose the right platform, deploy apps across multiple clouds, and perhaps even provide cloud arbitrage services that allow end users to shift between platforms to capture the best pricing.
- Israel and Palestine: Co-operation in the ether | The Economist – The material is kept, in fact, by Amazon Web Services in computers in America. G.ho.st will make its money, Mr Schreiber is hoping, from premium subscriptions that will provide more storage and security, and from selling the services of giant companies such as Amazon, Google and Yahoo.
- DMTF – VMAN – The Virtualization Management Initiative (VMAN) from DMTF unleashes the power of virtualization by delivering broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual computing environments. VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle. Management software vendors will offer a broad selection of tools that support the industry standard specifications that are a part of VMAN, thus lowering support and training costs for IT managers.
- Cloud Myths Dispelled | Eucalyptus Systems Inc – Need I say more?
- Red Hat Customer Success Stories | Red Hat and JBoss Solutions Deliver Millions in Cost Savings to Air France-KLM – To gain synergy between Air France and KLM, the unified airlines began planning for a UNIX-to-Linux migration. “As there was no flexibility in our legacy solutions, we decided to open up our systems. The step toward open source was logical, and our selection of Linux was a very important move. Open source offered us the possibility to innovate from the bottom up with no vendor lock-in and significantly reduced costs thanks to less-expensive hardware and no licensing costs associated with Linux,” said Matla.
- Atlanta Business Chronicle: The ATDC’s second act – The Advanced Technology Development Center will get a reboot, which its interim chief said, will address the "demands of today's startup environment"
- Hive, Pig fight for Hadoop supremacy – SD Times: Software Development News – “Moving from Hadoop to Hive opened up a lot more options for us,” said Bobby Johnson, director of engineering at Facebook. “There wasn't this steep learning curve; that was really what kicked it off. We had started with Hadoop and we thought this was really powerful, but we thought we had to get that power into the hands of people with less friction.”
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