Two years ago, Bio-IT World first reported on a little-known topic of “cloud computing,” when former BioTeam consultant Mike Cariaso recounted his early experiments with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It turned out his colleagues were also dabbling with the cloud, and they soon realized that this was more than just a cute toy for computer geeks.
Cloud computing with Linux thin clients For embedded Linux engineers and aficionados, one exciting aspect of cloud computing is the sudden interest in thin Linux clients. Explore cloud computing from a Linux perspective and discover some of the most innovative and popular Linux-based solutions—with a particular view toward Linux thin clients and environmentally beneficial options.
This ECAR research bulletin is the first in a series of bulletins devoted to cloud computing in higher education. It summarizes insights and a framework for thinking about cloud computing, and it touches on potential emergent roles for public and private clouds. The findings draw from spring 2009 interviews with industry and university information technology (IT) leaders, a review of current literature, and a synthesis of recent research from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). Citation for this work: Katz, Richard N., Philip J. Goldstein, and Ronald Yanosky. “Demystifying Cloud Computing fo
Ever since Lifehacker turned me on to Dropbox, it's become one of the most essential pieces in my daily workflow. Sure it syncs files extremely well, but Dropbox is an excellent tool for so much more.
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing.
At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867. In this post, we’ll share how to make one of these storage pods, and you’re welcome to use this design. Our hope is that by sharing, others can benefit and, ultimately, refine this concept and send improvements back to us. Evolving and lowering costs is critical to our continuing success at Backblaze. Below is a video that shows a 3-D model of the Backblaze Storage Pod. Continue reading to learn the exact details of the design
In my last project at work, I had to replace NFS with GFS2 and Clustering. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a Red Hat or CentOS cluster with GFS2. I will also show you how to optimize GFS2 performance in the next HowTo, because you will quickly notice some loss of performance until you do a little optimization first.I will 1st show you how do build a Cluster with GFS2 on the Command Line and in the next tutorial I will show you how to do the same thing using Conga.
Enomaly's Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) is the answer for service providers and enterprises that want to benefit from the power, flexibility, and compelling economics of cloud computing. Organizations around the world use ECP today to deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to their customers and internal users, to seamlessly bridge computing tasks between their datacenters and public cloud providers, and to experience the increased business agility of cloud computing. The Service Provider Edition of Enomaly ECP extends our core platform with the key capabilities needed by carriers, hosting providers. Our Community Edition is a powerful and complete cloud computing platform that you can download and use for free today.
Amazon Web Service today announced a new AWS Import/Export feature. A potentially huge step forward for data portabilty when using the Amazon Cloud computing infrastructure.
Eucalyptus Prerequisites (1.5.2) What follows is a comprehensive list of dependencies that must be satisfied before building Eucalyptus or running it. While we provide distribution-specific installation instructions that help satisfy these dependencies, this list should be useful if you are installing or building Eucalyptus on an unsupported distribution.
Summary: Your CTO wants to know your cloud computing strategy — and wants to know it tomorrow. There are a lot of choices, with many differences and similarities. This article explores some of the options for an organization that wants to leverage the power and promise of cloud computing, with a focus on open source technologies. Learn about several of the providers, such as Amazon, Microsoft®, Google, IBM®, Aptana, Heroku, Mosso, Ning, and Salesforce. Review the relative strengths and weaknesses of each platform, and what types of open source and proprietary technologies are supported on each platform. Learn how to pick the platform that fits your needs.
oud applications, computing, and storage are just emerging on the scene, yet there is a rapid heightening of interest in all things cloud. Google and Amazon popularized the concept, now businesses of all sizes and types are interested in its potential. With the availability of cloud storage-enabling solutions, many service providers and hosting companies are investigating new cloud storage service offerings.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Inspired by our post on Linux backup utility Back in Time, but finding it lacking encryption and network powers, Rob Oakes wrote his own Python-based utility to back up Windows, Mac, or Linux machines across local machines or networks.
Cloud computing means you can store your data in web applications and access it from any browser, anywhere—but that doesn't mean you don't need a backup plan. Safeguard your data when a storm's a-brewing in the cloud with these tools.
Carbonite launched its online backup service in May 2006. Our industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. So far, we have backed up and protected more than 2.5 billion files and restored more than 160 million lost files for customers in over 100 countries. Founded in 2005, we believe that computer users should not have to think about backup. We strive to serve as our customers' trusted partner in protecting and preserving their irreplaceable data by providing an affordable, reliable, secure and easy-to-use online backup service. Carbonite is available to consumers and small business through numerous channels, including its corporate website, major US retailers and international distributors.
From early in their company's history, Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wanted to develop a computer operating system and browser. Credit: Brian Stauffer They believed it would help make personal computing less expensive, because Google would give away the software free of charge. They wanted to shrug off 20 years of accumulated software history (what the information technology industry calls the "legacy") by building an OS and browser from scratch. Finally, they hoped the combined technology would be an alternative to Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, providing a new platform for developers to write Web applications and unleashing the creativity of programmers for the benefit of the masses.
SUSE Studio is a free, web-based service designed to build virtual appliances, such as pre-installed hardware-appliances, or "software appliances" -- pre-configured Linux server stacks suitable for installation by users on real or virtual commodity hardware. Recently released from beta, SUSE Studio can produce appliance images in raw disk image, Live CD/DVD iso, VMware, and Xen formats, and there are plans in the works for supporting Amazon's EC2 ami format, says the review by our sister publication, eWEEK.