Archive for the ‘cloud’ Category

2010 the year of the cloud !

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

2010 is going to be the year of the cloud event at least !

CloudCamp London 2010-01-21

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

CloudCamp London 21 Jan 2010 is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.

With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

IBM Cloud

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Try the IBM Development and Test Cloud !

This IBM cloud environment highlights IBM’s software offerings and provides tools needed to develop and test application code. Included are tools to configure and manage the dynamic execution environment, an IDE that facilitates the direct use of the execution environment, and build and test tools that can exploit the execution environment.

I did but unfortunately it was down was down today ! When its fixed I might try one of the IBM APPs or one of the IBM development or production AMIs !

Yahoo! distribution of Hadoop

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Yahoo! have released the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoopa source code distribution that is based entirely on code found in the Apache Hadoop project. This source distribution includes code patches that we have added to improve the stability and performance of our clusters.

The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop can be downloaded from:

http://github.com/yahoo/hadoop-common/tree/yahoo-hadoop-0.20

If you want an installable image of the code, Cloudera has included the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop in raw package form available at:

http://www.cloudera.com/yahoo-packages/

Monitis WebLoadTester

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Monitis’ WebLoadTester is a web load and stress testing software as a service that uses cloud computing power for instant web app and network testing. At user request, WebLoadTester adds machines from Amazons server farm to process requested number of virtual users.

IBM, Canonical, Ubuntu cloud based desktop

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

IBM, Canonical, Ubuntu cloud based desktop

IBM and Canonical are introducing a cloud and Ubuntu GNU/Linux based desktop package in the U.S. designed for use on a company’s existing fleet of personal computers (PCs) or even low-cost netbooks.

Ubuntu Cloud

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

As part of its upcoming 9.10 release, Ubuntu GNU/Linux is set to integrate a number of new cloud technologies.

One of the efforts will include a cloud software appliance store to help expedite setup and deployment of private clouds.

SoftLayer CloudLayer PAYG hosting

Friday, October 9th, 2009

SoftLayer have launch a CloudLayer PAYG cloud hosting service.

Abicloud open source cloud manager

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Abicloud is an open source infrastructure software for the creation and integral management of Public & Private Clouds based on heterogeneous environments. The tool mainly offers users the capacity for scaling, management, automatic and immediate provision of servers, storage, networks, virtual network devices as well as applications.

Magic Quadrant for Hosted Cloud

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand)

Web hosting is rapidly converging with cloud system infrastructure services. For the last several years, the market has been evolving toward on-demand infrastructure provisioned on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis, but the introduction of cloud computing offerings has radically accelerated innovation in this market.