IBM devworks article on howto migrate a Linux application to the Amazon EC2 cloud and howto make your application more robust by employing a load balancer and persistent disk.
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IBM howto migrate a GNU/Linux app to the Cloud
Friday, August 6th, 2010IBM Cloud Portal
Friday, April 23rd, 2010IBM have launched a new Cloud Computing Portal !
ibm.com developerworks cloud series
Friday, January 29th, 2010The ibm.com developerworks cloud series explores the major types of cloud services and related software that you can use to build Web-scale systems.
In Part 1, learn how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds provide basic services you can use to deploy and run your applications. The article also discusses how Eucalyptus can be used as an infrastructure to create public or private clouds.
In Part 2, learn about AppScale and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing. Explore the features and architecture of this virtual infrastructure. It’s a great way to test your Google App Engine applications on your local resources or virtualized cloud infrastructures, such as Amazon EC2 or Eucalyptus.
IBM Cloud
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Try 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 !
IBM, Canonical, Ubuntu cloud based desktop
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009IBM, 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.
Peripheral Component Interconnect
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) passthrough provides the means to use those resources efficiently, when sharing is not possible or useful. Learn more about the concept of passthrough, its implementation in hypervisors, and the hypervisors that support this recent innovation @ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pci-passthrough/index.html
IBM EC2 hourly pricing
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009You can now pay hourly for IBM DB2 & WebSphere sMash licences on Amazon EC2 !
- Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Express – starting at $0.38/hour
- Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Workgroup – starting at $1.31/hour
- Amazon EC2 running IBM WebSphere sMash – starting at $0.50/hour
Sugar CRM AMIs on EC2 Cloud
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Build your own installation of Sugar 5.5 (Alpha) on our On-Demand servers.
The custom demos give you the opportunity to use the end user and administration tools.
http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/Sugar5.5_CP1
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Howto to start an IBM sMash EC2 AMI with an instance of SugarCRM.
http://www.projectzero.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/12/sugar-on-smash-on-ec2/
IBM EC2 SAAS demo
Thursday, March 26th, 2009See 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.