Posted in Cloud Computing on Mar 9th, 2010
Like many people I have files stored on a number of different place on the ‘cloud’. Some are on email (several different providers), and others are on free storage sites, some are on FTP, documents are on Google Docs etc. Accessing these files as and when I need them is not hard if I’m sat [...]
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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, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 14th, 2009
An excerpt from the our book, on Cloud Computing Best Practices, is currently featured on the Sys-Con Cloud Computing Journal site.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 22nd, 2009
You can now buy the TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing on Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cpavj2
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 22nd, 2009
We cover the Open Virtualisation format in the book, but if you want to get a more in-depth understanding of it I would recommend having a look at a blog post from SLA@SOI. It is technically very informative and goes into quite a bit of depth.
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