Posted in Cloud Computing on Mar 25th, 2009
CloudEnterprise.info blogged about the recent Gartner cool vendors report which outlines 5 cloud vendors as listed below:
Appirio – which provide professional services and integration solutions based on salesforce.com for various web 2.0 services including Google Apps, Facebook, and Amazon. They are doing relatively well and their 2,000 customers include Japan Post Office, Qualcomm, Genentech, and [...]
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A good article at Java World outlines the deisgn principles of building cloud ready multicore applications.
“For your applications to meet the demands of computing in a cloud-based, multicore world, you’ll need to design your code with the following attributes in mind:
- Atomicity
- Statelessness
- Idempotence
- Parallelism
In this article, the first of two parts, I’ll discuss each [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Feb 13th, 2009
DataSynapse have finally made the plunge into Cloud Computing and announced a beta programme a for Amazon EC2. The Cloud is a good model for Grid enabled computing and it is good to see another major Grid Vendor acknowledging that the utility compute model makes sense not only for them, but also for their customers and [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Feb 13th, 2009
A very good paper has been released by UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (Berkeley RAD Lab). The paper is a very good drill down into all the different aspects of Cloud Computing as well as their view on issues that are prevalent within this model. It is a good read - you can download [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Feb 1st, 2009
This is an excerpt from the Cloud section of the book. It was recently published on my blog but I thought it should be syndicated here.
There are many debates about the economics of cloud. The reality is that you at some point you are going to have to make your own mind up, but it [...]
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Below is a slideshow and audio presentation that Jim and Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces, presented in January 2009 on the value of application virtualisation for ROI / TCO, and ROA. It also features a case study and some real cloud use cases.
Savig cost using application level virtualization
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