Sun Microsystems Plans To Compete With Amazon Web Services
Image via Wikipedia Sun Microsystems will be making some announcements on Wednesday regarding their Cloud offerings. Here at Cloud Avenue, we got a chance to talk to the folks at Sun, in advance, about their announcement and I am going to share it here on this post. So far Sun has been talking vaguely about their plans [...]
Rich Wolski discusses Grids, Clouds, and the past, present and future of EUCALYPTUS
Rich Wolski is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the Eucalyptus Project. Rich joined me at the end of last week for a conversation about Eucalyptus, and the result has just been released as one of the podcast series I’m continuing to produce for [...]
VPNCubed Available For EC2 Including A Free Version
During October of last year, I wrote a post about a new product that was launched called VPNCubed. In fact, it is my opinion that VPNCubed will play a major role in helping enterprise customers move to Clouds. Today’s release of VPN-Cubed will offer a security perimeter covering the IT assets deployed in any kind [...]
Managing EC2 Instances On the iPhone
Image via CrunchBase Ever since I bought my iPhone, I wanted to have an app that will help me manage Amazon EC2 instances through it. After I bought my iPhone, I have stopped taking my laptop and data card everywhere to manage any emergencies in any of the servers I manage. I use pTerm application [...]
Power Of Clouds: Amazon EC2 Helps A Traditional Media Company Again
Image via Wikipedia As Cloud evangelists, we never shy away from talking about how New York Times used Amazon EC2 to convert full page images of its newspapers from 1851 to 1922 into PDF using Amazon EC2. In fact, this is one of the early cloud success stories. Using Amazon Web Services, Hadoop and our [...]
IBM Amazon Team Up To Offer IBM Middleware on EC2
Image via CrunchBase After announcing some cloud related intiatives yesterday, IBM has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to offer IBM middleware products on EC2 running Suse Linux. This includes IBM DB2, IBM Lotus® content management, and IBM WebSphere® portal. This is significant for Amazon as it helps them to position themselves as a serious [...]
Web Hosting To Cloud Hosting – A Case Study
Image via CrunchBase The recent Rackspace Survey clearly hints at a lack of awareness about Cloud hosting among small businesses. I thought I will take upon this opportunity to push this idea further in this space. If you are a small business owner and if you rent dedicated server(s) from a data center, this post is [...]
Amazon Web Services Makes It Easy for the Hackers, Oops, Users
Image via CrunchBase Amazon Web Services today announced the release of Web based AWS Management Console. This helps users manage their EC2 instances easily. Amazon is also planning to release load balancing, auto scaling, S3 support, etc., through this console. Users don’t have to figure out their public/secret keys and certificates to launch an instance. [...]
You Can Run Windows Sharepoint on Amazon Cloud, But Why?
Image by yonmacklein via Flickr Collaboration is the key to today’s business and technology makes collaboration easier. Many businesses rely on Microsoft’s Windows Sharepoint Services for their collaboration needs. But, in my opinion, it is way too expensive and old fashioned. Till sometime back, if someone recommended Wikis as an alternative to Windows Sharepoint Services, [...]
Amazon Tries to Lure Scientific Community into the Clouds
Image by via CrunchBase I am a strong believer of the utility of Cloud Computing in scientific research. Computing resources over clouds, along with its inherent advantages, are a boon to the cash starved scientific community. I have talked about this again and again. I am not alone in this and there are many others who believe in the [...]
Cloud Computing and Science – MATLAB on Clouds
I am a strong advocate of using Cloud Computing in Science. I had talked about it in my post on LHC Computing and, again, when I wrote about Mathematica embracing the clouds. Through Jinesh’s post on AWS Blog, I came across a whitepaper that explains how one can run MATLAB, proprietary technical computing software from [...]
Cloud Computing and Science – Mathematica Embraces Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Scientists are always in need of poweful computing resources to do complex calculations. They have relied on everything from super computer to distributed systems like SETI@HOME. In fact, High Performance Computing (HPC) can accelerate the speed at which science is done and can open up new vistas to scientists. Scientific community has [...]
Limitations of Proprietary Licensing in the Cloud Marketplace
Image via CrunchBase I am an unabashed advocate of Opensource philosophy. I personally believe that Opensource spurs innovation and offers better security. However, I don’t consider proprietary nature of software and standards as an outright evil. In my opinion, Opensource and Proprietary approaches are two different approaches to solving the same problem. Since I don’t [...]
AWS is Enterprise Ready
Image via CrunchBase With PDC in the horizon and the expected cloud announcements by Microsoft, Amazon just took a giant step forward in positioning its cloud offerings to be ready for enterprise adaption. Today they made quite a few announcements that is likely to gain the enterprise attention. Amazon EC2 is officially out of beta [...]
