Cloud Computing

System hardening guidelines for Amazon EC2

Sergio Castro has released a functional, open source Virtual Machine Trojan called ViMTruder.

Private cloud replaces antiquated IT infrastructure for $300K per year

OpenSim 3D Virtual World Server

Move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no impact to end users

Imagine that a Singapore-based sales manager is accessing a CRM application which was once local, but is now based in the Hong Kong data center. But it's end of quarter and the peak load on the Hong Kong CRM application is over the specified capacity limit, so the transaction (running on a virtual machine) is transferred via VMotion to the data center in San Francisco, completed and sent back to the Singapore sales office.

Porting Google App Engine (GAE) applications to IBM middleware

Have you signed up to try Google App Engine for Java yet? We were so overwhelmed with the response to our early look at Java support on App Engine that we decided to let more developers in now, without waiting. Thus, we're expanding the early look signups to 25,000 developers, in order to give more of you a chance to try it out. So please sign up, give it a try, and let us know what you think. We've already seen a number of interesting apps built and deployed. Stay tuned for us to point some of the cooler ones out in the coming weeks.

aim of this paper is to: - point out that not everything is best implemented in clouds; it may be best to operate some business functions using a traditional non-cloud approach - explain the different cloud formations that the Jericho Forum has identified - describe key characteristics, benefits and risks of each cloud formation - provide a framework for exploring in more detail the nature of different cloud formations and the issues that need answering to make them safe and secure places to work in

McKinsey Clearing the air on cloud computing

machetEC2, the Infochimps Amazon Machine Image (AMI) designed for data processing, analysis, and visualization, has been released!

blog.infochimps.org - Organizing Huge Information Sources, scientific computing applied

x86 processor: full suite of virtualization and power management capabilities so that customers do not have to compromise on feature sets in order to deploy very low power servers.

Everyone interested in cloud computing reports and documentation should start here. It is much better then wide spread McKinseys "report".

The first issue of the RESERVOIR Architecture document - June 2008.

IBM report about Reservoir

Creating private cloud with ubuntu server and eucalyptus