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By John | May 23, 2009
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As pharma companies are beginning to explore cloud computing as a valid option for their high-performance computing needs, some IT vendors are looking for ways to displace Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing service, which has a clear lead in the market for on-demand computing services in the life sciences.
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One of the featured programs at Interop Las Vegas was the Enterprise Cloud Summit. BitCurrent has extensive writeups of the event. Here are several that may be of particular interest:
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Have Hyperic’s & Zenoss’s feature selections leaned too far towards their closed enterprise versions? Alemic Boiling would seem to think so…
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There has been a lot of talk this week about a new cloud storage service being rolled out by Google as part of their Google App Engine offering. The announcement was part of a presentation at the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, by Mike Repass, Product Manager at Google who indicated it would be made available 'within weeks'.
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Our new AWS Import/Export service allows you to ship your data to us. This service is now in a limited beta and you can sign up here. We'll take your storage device, load the data into a designated S3 bucket, and send your hardware back to you. The data load takes place in a secure facility with a high bandwidth, low-latency connection to Amazon S3. Once the data has been loaded in to S3, you can process it on EC2, and then store the results anywhere you would like — back into S3, in SimpleDB, or on EBS volumes.
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The MySQL May conference keynote videos and presentations files are all posted so you can download the ones you're interested in now. Embedded below is the video and slide deck for my keynote on Thursday.
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You can't buy the infrastructure, since you'll need it just once. Even then you wouldn't know how much to get. Traditional hosting would require you to make a long term commitment and you still wouldn't know how much to reserve. Cloud computing, once again, turns out to solve these problems and to enable hundreds of thousands of people to witness a relatively rare event — the birth of an elephant in captivity!
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The AWS Management Console now has support for our new Reserved Instances feature, previously announced in this very blog. You can now purchase new Reserved Instances and see your existing holdings with point-and-click ease.
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As Teyo will be in Leuven (Belgium) next week for the training , some folks had the idea to meetup after the training for a Puppet Users Meetup.
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