Cloud Computing

Profiles of applications suitable for cloud

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.

Face-off: Assessing cloud computing risks

How to Build a Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy

Updated Tutorial: Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with EBS (now supports AppArmor)

Microsoft Online Hosted Features in Comparison to On-Premise Solutions (Exchange, OCS, SharePoint)

Migration Guide to Microsoft Online Hosted Exchange

Running R on Amazon's EC2

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced a working draft that defines various aspects of cloud computing, which may finally put a lid on the dubious claims put out by many vendors.

Elastician: Cloud Computing Hierarchy of Needs

Amazon introduced Auto Scaling, Load Balancing and Monitoring. You don't need any third party tools any more.

WOW. Amazon introduced Auto Scaling, Load Balancing and Monitoring. You don't need any third party tools any more.

Announced late last year, Amazon tonight launched load balancing, monitoring, and auto-scaling for the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These features have been requested many times by EC2 users and with this release Amazon continues to show that it listens and responds to feedback.

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) embodies much of what makes infrastructure as a service such a powerful technology; it enables our customers to build secure, fault-tolerant applications that can scale up and down with demand, at low cost. Core in achieving these levels of efficiency and fault-tolerance is the ability to acquire and release compute resources in a matter of minutes, and in different Availability Zones.

We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS. As soon as you launch some EC2 instances, you want visibility into resource utilization and overall performance. You want your application to be able to scale on demand based on traffic and system load. You want to spread the incoming traffic across multiple web servers for high availability and better performance. You want to focus on building an application that takes advantage of the powerful infrastructure available in the cloud, while avoiding system administration and operational burdens ("The Muck," as Jeff Bezos once called it).

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.