Amazon Should Be More Transparent
Late last week, Technology Review carried a news article about a research paper by a group of scientists in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and their collaborators from the University of California at San Diego. These researchers conducted their studies on the Amazon EC2 ecosystem and concluded that it is vulnerable to eavesdropping [...]
Virtualization And Cloud Computing – Cisco's Perspective
Here at Cloud Ave, we highlight the perspectives of many different players in the Cloud Computing space. As a part of this tradition, I would like to share Cisco’s perspective on the Virtualization and Cloud Computing. Here, Glenn Dasmalchi from Cisco explains the difference between the two and about their vision of cloud computing that [...]
JeOS, An Open Source Opportunity
During the past few days, the clouderati were busy discussing whether virtualization is a solution or part of the problem when applied to enterprise cloud computing. Christofer Hoff started off the discussion by throwing his thoughts out in the public. A lively good discussion ensued on his post and Surendra Reddy, from Yahoo, added his [...]
The Road To Open Federated Clouds: Xen, VMware And More
VMworld 2009 is over and the battle lines are already drawn between Citrix Xen, Vmware and Redhat. Xen is the leader in the public cloud service provider side and VMware holds near monopoly hold on the enterprise infrastructure side. Before we see full scale cloud adoption on the enterprise side, it is important that these [...]
VMWorld Spoilers: vCloud Express And VMware Go
This is the week of VMworld, the leading virtualization event to be held at The Moscone Center, San Francisco from today to Sept. 3rd, 2009. This event, used as a platform to pimp the products of VMware, is building quite a bit of excitement among the pundit and others who are interested in virtualization and [...]
Savvis jumps into the SaaS bandwagon
Image via Wikipedia Managed hosting service provider, Savvis Inc., has made three significant announcements related to SaaS. They have jumped into the SaaS bandwagon by announcing a service for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors). They are leveraging the presence of their 29 data centers around the world, to offer a packaged plan that will help ISVs shift gears [...]
Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Are they different disciplines?
In his article on MIT’s Emerging Technology conference, Kevin Fogarty writes, in the CIO Magazine, about people who have invested heavily on Virtualization, The good news is that virtualization will become a critical part of an even larger part of most IT infrastructures as time goes on. The bad news is that it will do so as [...]
