Tag: Cloud
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Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire: James Hamilton is one of the key thinkers charged with solving such problems, striving to rethink the data center for the age of cloud computing. Much like two other cloud computing giants — Google and Microsoft — Amazon says very little about the particulars…
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Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage
Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage: You hear a lot these days in networking circles about “software defined networks. Lyatiss isn’t French for IT’s holy grail, but maybe it should be: Lyatiss, a startup that came out of a French research consortium wants to create a new communication layer…
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Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?
Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?: NuoDB has today kicked off that debate with the launch of its Cloud Data Management System and 12 rules for a 21st century cloud database. NuoDB’s 12 rules appear pretty sound to me – in fact you could argue they are somewhat obvious. Monash has a less favorable…
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What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud
What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud. All good and well, but is anybody still listening? HP will have to deliver, then we can talk again.
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Rackspace versus Amazon
There’s a place for different business strategies also in the cloud services space. Derrick Harris explains how Rackspace is positioning itself as all about Service and Open Ecosystem (no lock-in), whereas Amazon is all about Ultimate Scalability using a Proprietary Stack. Rackspace is busy building a Hadoop service, giving the company one more avenue to…
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Homomorphic Encryption
Homomorphic encryption: computation on encrypted databases without ever decrypting them. An important step that should eventually allow even the most privacy focused institutions off-loading some of their data processing into public clouds. Alice hands bob a locked suitcase and asks him to count the money inside. “Sure,” Bob says. “Give me the key.” Alice shakes her…
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Drunk on Cloud Kool-Aid? Time To Sober Up
The cloud’s ready, but are you, too? How much does it cost you to rewrite everything to be cloud ready? When a new business starts, it will likely be on all-cloud platforms. When an established business replaces a single system, it will be cloud. Or when cloud solutions offer a multiplied increase in value, a…
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How Vimeo Saves 50% on EC2 by Playing a Smarter Game
How Vimeo Saves 50% on EC2 by Playing a Smarter Game: Nothing shows how much software architectures have changed than the intelligent scheduling of computation over differently priced compute resources. This isn’t just a false economy either. Vimeo saves up to 50% on their video transcoding bill by intelligently playing the spot, reserved, and on-demand markets. If you…
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Open Cloud Initiative and Demo in Züri
Tomorrow, September 12, 2012, 7:00 PM, ETH HG E 1.1 Sam Johnston [1], the president of the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) [2] will join us for the first session after the summer break. via Open Cloud Initiative and demo – Zurich FLOSS and IT geeks (Zürich) – Meetup.
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VMware’s OpenStack Hook-up
Some good commentary about Vmware joining OpenStack: VMware’s OpenStack Hook-up.