Six Apart and JumpBox have been working together to vastly simplify the deployment of Movable Type Pro. This new product called “Virtual Movable Type by JumpBox” is a JumpBox virtual appliance that bundles all the components required to run Movable Type together in a single module that deploys in minutes.
http://www.movabletype.com/overview/virtual-movable-type.html
OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI with packages updated to build 91 and hadoop0.17.2.1
Now you can mount a Amazon S3 bucket as a filesystem on OpenSolaris.
OpenSolaris now available on Amazon EC2 Europe!
Sun are very happy to broaden the availability of the latest OpenSolaris 2008.11 Base AMI on Amazon EC2 in the European Region. This AMI is public and does not need registration.
Following are the details of this new OpenSolaris 2008.11 32-bit AMI:
Sun are planning to have more and more OpenSolaris based AMIs on Amazon EC2 so we thought providing a table would help users quickly locate and access the AMIs. We will keep updating the table as and when a new AMI gets added to EC2 environment.
EUCALYPTUS – Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems – is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters.
The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces.
EUCALYPTUS is now on Launchpad
3Tera’s VPDC service will include a 99.999 percent availability SLA designed to give customers confidence and ensure that they can use the cloud to quickly deploy and operate even their most critical services and applications on a highly available and scalable platform.
SAS announces today it is building a 38,000-square-foot cloud computing facility to provide the additional data-handling capacity needed to expand SAS’ OnDemand offerings and hosted solutions.
Sun Cloud (does that make sense?) anyway have a look at http://www.sun.com/solutions/cloudcomputing/index.jsp
Sun Cloud API : http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/Home
Sun Cloud Beta Signup : https://www2.sun.de/dct/forms/reg_us_2409_516_0.jsp
Amazon EC2 customers uptime statistics !