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The recent Terremark vCloud Express announcement was a welcome addition to the Cloud infrastructure portfolio range of companies, giving Amazon more competition. Competition in any industry is always a good thing, and we can expect to see more of this as Azure comes more and more to the fore and other players enter the market.

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A recent blogpost showed how to perform a EDoS (Economical Denial of Service) and how to publish a compromised public AMI.  As the post outlines:

“Theft of resources is the red-headed step-child of attack classes and doesn’t get much attention, but on cloud platforms where resources are shared amongst many users these attacks can have a [...]

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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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Cloudkick, a Y Combinator startup that offers a free server management system to businesses whose web infrastructure is maintained by Amazon’s EC2 or Slicehost cloud-based servers, is unveiling a nifty feature today at Under the Radar. Cloudkick has added the ability for users to migrate their Amazon Machine Images (the template for servers on EC2) on their EC2 servers to another service [...]

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IB now now offers Amazon AMI instances of some of its software. The hourly prices for Amazon EC2 running IBM are as follows:

Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Express - starting at $0.38/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Workgroup - starting at $1.31/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express - starting at $0.38/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM [...]

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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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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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IBM has  partnered with Amazon to allow access of its software to SI’s using Amazon’s cloud computing applications. The partnerships enables pay-as-you-go access to development and production versions of IBM Information Management database servers, IBM Lotus content management, and IBM WebSphere portal and middleware products through Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. IBM is providing free Amazon [...]

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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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Scale Unlimited are offering Boot Camps on Hadoop. Given the increasing use of Hadoop on Amazon EC2 this could be a useful course for those looking to process vast amounts of data. Scale also detail how the community have been using Hadoop. They also provide a Hadoop live CD which provides new Hadoop users with [...]

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