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"This post is my attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go. At best, I might be able to help make a new landscape clear. At worst, hopefully I can at least provide one framework for future discussion."

hmmm, material snagged from the white paper I worked on.  :O I'm not too surprised, and it is on MS's blog, who technically owns the material anyway.  Great reuse!!

AWS Vs Azure Vs Google Cloud - have a detailed comparison of market share, pricing, storage, tools and computation. Get all the differences between Azure, AWS and Google cloud platforms and know what is the best cloud platform

cloud computing opensource platform

cloud computing opensource platform

"Preview: Chef 0.8 and the Opscode Platform"

GridGain - Open Cloud Platform, "disconnected" cloud.

As core enterprise data disperses into the cloud, it will need industrial-strength integration platforms to keep it cleansed and synchronized.

Cloud computing is more than just the latest in a series of attempts to pare down government spending - it's a gateway to unprecedented innovation in a sector known more for bureaucratic inertia.

Education sector telco AARNet today announced that it would provide Box's cloud content and collaboration management platform to Australian universities and other AARNet customers, in a move which has already spurred trials at half a dozen educational institutions located around Australia.

Open Source, private cloud computing platform, that allows cloud-bursting to the public cloud (AWS). Works on Linux.

Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers is an European Union FP7 funded project that will enable massive scale deployment and management of complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies.

Vertebra is Engine Yard's "platform for developing and managing secure cloud applications", and was announced in June 2008. Now, it has finally been released-under the LGPL3.

Interesting...

"aaS Providers Shifting to Commercial VMs. IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers have focused on open source and internal technologies to deliver solutions at the lowest possible cost. But that's changing. In the past year, there's been a rapidly growing trend for IaaS providers to add support for major commercial VM formats - especially VMware, but also Hyper-V and XenServer. The reason? To create an easy on-ramp for enterprises. As enterprises virtualize (and in many cases, build private clouds), the IaaS providers know that they need to make interoperability, hybrid, overdrafting, migration as easy as possible. The question is whether that will require commercial offerings (such as VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services, or Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Alliance), or if conversion tools will be good enough. I tend to think that service providers better make the off-premises experience as identical to the on-premises experience as possible - and I'm not sure conversion will get them there."

Absolutely brilliant example. Imagine dynamic scalable VOIP infrastructure.

Asterisk, a somewhat resource consuming application is considered not fitting for Amazon EC2 structures. This talk will discuss the various issues related to creating dynamically extending platforms, using Asterisk, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and some web mesh-ups.

cloud platform that provides Xen based compute units, object based storage (which we present as a file system vs. having to manage RESTful based file system services) and block IO which we provide to our compute units or expose via a OpenFiler VM.

OpenNebula is a Virtual Infrastructure Manager that orchestrates storage, network and virtualization technologies to enable the dynamic placement of multi-tier services (groups of interconnected virtual machines) on distributed infrastructures, combining both data center resources and remote cloud resources, according to allocation policies. OpenNebula provides internal and Cloud administration and user interfaces for the full management of the Cloud platform.

Leading industry leaders opt for IBM system z for payment processing for their finanacial transaction processing, the core reason being security & PCI compliance standards. Other top seven reasons includes following * Provide the most reliable platform for high end transactions * Effectively manage the large-scale transactions and associated costs * Provide fast response to customers * Provide service continuity to customers * Ensure maximum availability and security in financial transactions