A few days ago, NASA announced their enterprise computing cloud, NEBULA. As importantly, they announced that the NEBULA cloud framework was to be released as an open source project. In NASA's own words, NEBULA "provides high-capacity computing, storage and network connectivity, and uses a virtualized, scalable approach to achieve cost and energy efficiencies." Here is... Continue Reading →
Christopher Crowhurst, Thomson Reuters's vice president and chief architect for infrastructure was interviewed for an article in The Industry Standard regarding his plans to implement storage and server virtualization on a global level. With 20,000 servers and over 6.5 petabytes of storage today, Thomson Reuters is a great candidate for virtualization. One of his... Continue Reading →
Here is a link. Worth a read if you are interested in what's going one with cloud storage (aka Storage as a Service). This is a market that IDC predicts will hit $3 billion by 2012. The paper was written by Storage Switzerland, but mentions by name only Bycast - so I assume it's a... Continue Reading →
There were several more great talks, demos and panels during the day. See Bitcurrent for good summaries of each one. Here are some additional bits. Peter Laird's talk on Taxonomies is a copy of the one he gave at Interop in NY this past Fall. Here is his blog post from September 2008. The vendor... Continue Reading →
At the Enterprise Cloud Summit today at Interop, there were several examples given of constraints imposed by governments on where data and processes can reside. For example, Canadian government data cannot reside in the U.S. due to the Patriot Act. Similarly, the French government will not use Blackberry devices because at some point all emails... Continue Reading →
I will post more updates later, but the connection here at the Enterprise Cloud Summit (#ecs) makes it hard for me to do full-length posts.
Seeing demo now of SOASTA CloudTest seening load test stats for the sample app that they have been working with at the conference. Panel led by Greg Ness from InfoBlox coming next... Panelists include Bill McGee from Third Brigade, Geva Perry of Thinking Out Cloud, and Randy Rowland of Terremark. Starting with "What types of cloud... Continue Reading →
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