Posted in Cloud Computing, HPC on Oct 30th, 2009
With Virtualisation becoming intertwined with cloud computing it is worth taking a step back and looking once again what virtualisation is, and is not. Virtualisation and Emulation are often compared, but there are a set of important differences. Emulation provides the functionality of a target processor completely in software. The main advantage being that you can emulate [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Oct 30th, 2009
The Future of the Cloud by Simon Wardley from Carsonified on Vimeo.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on May 16th, 2009
This session was presented at Cloud Slam 09 by Nati Shalom CTO of GigaSpaces. It provides a practical guideline addressing the common challenges of developing and deploying an existing enterprise application on the cloud. Additionally, you will get the opportunity for hands-on experience running and deploying production ready applications in a matter of minutes on [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Mar 27th, 2009
A recent webinar by GigaSpaces on how to deploy your existing applications to the cloud using GigaSpaces can be watched below:
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Mar 9th, 2009
SOASTA, who we covered in the book, plans to utilise an interconnected series of regionalized cloud providers for global load and performance testing Web applications and networks in a service they call the CloudTest Global Platform. They say that it enables companies to simulate Web traffic and conditions by utilizing the power of the Cloud.
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Feb 20th, 2009
There is an excellent article on securing Amazon EC2 for distributed architectures over at Cloudiquity - well worth a read if you plan to deploy on Amazon EC2.
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Feb 19th, 2009
Gartner has just released a report entitled “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“. It is a well written piece and is very useful if your company is considering a move into cloud either with a consumer offering or building an internal cloud offering.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Feb 19th, 2009
In our book (which is finally due out at the end of February !), one of the things we discuss is the differences between pure play Grid and Cloud. Interestingly a recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree [...]
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