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VMware vSphere

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

VMware vSphere is a Cloud Operating System designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, the Essentials and Essentials Plus editions of VMware vSphere 4 deliver enterprise-class capabilities in a cost-effective solution packages for organizations that want optimize and protect their IT assets with minimal up-front investment.

By adopting vSphere Essentials, customers can more effectively utilize server, network and storage resources dynamically as a single pool or “internal cloud” to protect business-critical applications and data.

Compare ESXi and vSphere

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Eucalyptus, KVM and Ubuntu Server

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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, S3, and EBS interfaces, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.

The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is powered by Eucalyptus, an open source implementation for the emerging standard of EC2. This solution is designed to simplify the process of building and managing an internal cloud for businesses of any size, thereby enabling companies to create their own self-service infrastructure.

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BlueLock cloud

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

BlueLock has created a VMware based managed cloud hosting solutions that promise high availability, fanatical expert support and a more scalable and cost-efficient operating model for your IT infrastructure without sacrificing security or performance.

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Open Cloud Manifesto

Friday, March 27th, 2009

The Open Cloud Manifesto goal is to draft a document that clearly states we (including dozens of supporting companies) believe that like the Internet, the cloud itself should be open. The manifesto does not speak to application code or licensing but instead to the fundamental principles that the Internet was founded upon - an open platform available to all.

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IBM EC2 SAAS demo

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

See how the newly available IBM® WebSphere® sMash and IBM DB2® Express-C Amazon Machine Images can be used to deploy a sample multi-tenant banking application to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. This demo also explores how the sample application can share its components and deployment infrastructure among multiple tenants.

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3Tera 99.999 VPDC cloud

Friday, March 20th, 2009

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.

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Sun Cloud

Friday, March 20th, 2009

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

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EUCALYPTUS for “cloud computing” on clusters

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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 implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.

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IBM AWS Cloud & IBM SAAS

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

IBM AWS Cloud & IBM SAAS

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Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

The  Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)  is an open, vendor neutral, not for profit community of technology advocates, and consumers dedicated to driving the rapid adoption of global cloud computing services. CCIF shall accomplish this by working through the use open forums (physical and virtual) focused on building community consensus, exploring emerging trends, and advocating best practices / reference architectures for the purposes of standardized cloud computing.

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