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Is the Cloud as the vendors are claiming?

August 28, 2009 in Events, IT Departments, News, Technical by pcalcada | No comments

IT news from Australia is presenting a work made by the UNSW School of Computer Science. In this study they try to verify if the Cloud is as the Vendors are claiming that it is: elastic, reliable, dynamic, fault tolerant, high available..

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/153451,stress-tests-rain-on-amazons-cloud.aspx

These are very interesting points and independent tests are fundamental to create trust among Cloud users and providers.

Although I think this kind of test should be more focused on specific applications. As  studies show, some of the potential problems found on the Cloud could be solved by the developers.

Using these ideas as starting point I’m working on a project that should be presented as a parallel event on the CloudViews.Org Cloud Computing Conference – 2010. This project, and the whole CloudViews.Org Cloud Computing Conference 2010 will be presented very soon, but If any one is interested in these topics, feel free to contact me directly.

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Interesting stuff (articles that I’ve read)

March 23, 2009 in CloudViews, IT Departments by hugo.mag | No comments

I’ve read recently several articles about Cloud Computing that I would like to share in this blog:

Start your company with a credit card and a cloud: An article showing what a small company (JumpBox) is doing. Basically they sell “pre-built, pre-configured [Open Source] software applications packaged for deployment on virtual computing platforms.” that a small company can use. As the article author says “My little notebook computer has enough power to run a business – if I could just get the support and the apps to do it.”.

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Can he live in the cloud for more than one week?

February 28, 2009 in CloudViews, User Experiences by hugo.mag | No comments

Don’t know about you guys, but I’m looking forward to see what Christopher Dawson will write after he spends one week living in the cloud and if he will remain in the cloud or return to his normal e-mail client and word documents saved in his hard drive. This is an interesting experience because he will tell us, from his experience, if the online scaled down versions of software like Office and others are sufficient (and maybe even better) for most documents we write.

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IBM, Amazon and Microsoft in the clouds

February 17, 2009 in IT Departments, News, Technical by acc | No comments

Quoting a ZDNet article: «If there were any lingering doubts about whether Amazon Web Services were enterprise ready they dissolved this week once IBM became a partner. And now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up a picture of multiple computing clouds is emerging. Amazon Web Services teamed up with IBM to provide pay-as-you-go access to Big Blue’s database servers, Lotus and Websphere middleware running on Novell SUSE Linux. Those applications will run on Amazon’s EC2. While much of the details have been covered what’s notable is the vision. IBM’s cloud will connect to Amazon’s and licenses will also carry over. To the enterprise IBM’s endorsement makes Amazon an official member of the corporate cloud club.»

It’s cloud related interesting reading, but things will not be so easy for IBM and friends…

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Interoperatibily, Interoperatibily, and Interoperatibily

January 23, 2009 in Interoperability by pcalcada | No comments

In my post, that’s a follow up of Reuven Cohen initial thoughts about UCI,  I’m  analysing the same point of view of this new Reuven Cohen’s post.

We already have a lot of technologies that could be used as a starting point to make this Cloud world a better place in the interoperability perspective. As Reuven  also said, Cisco is moving in this direction, but you cannot forget other examples, as the recent work done by Microsoft with its Azure and Geneva. In contrast to what they usually do, this time they could (in same aspect) be used as an example.   I’m following closely the work on the Geneva platforms, and Identity 2.0 platforms,  but Azure also has interesting architect decisions.

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Widget development for TV and for us all

January 13, 2009 in News, User Interfaces by hugo.mag | No comments

The recent agreement between Yahoo and Samsung is very interesting for us tech guys. Will we be able to create new applications (and make money) for TV?  Will this extend the reach of YouTube and create more market for others in the same market (like Joost, etc.) and even for other companies (like Microsoft, Facebook, etc.)?

The answer for me for both questions is yes, although I think that this will take time to accomplish because we have many TV brands (with different hardware and software) and widget platforms (from Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc.) and  they also need to come on board and make agreements between them.

But if we start to see many different APIs (one for each TV/widget platform) we will be faced with a problem because the effort to build óur killer application will significantly increase. A OpenSocial like effort would speed up things to the benefit of us all.

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