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Open Source Xen Hypervisor & Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) adopted by private IaaS providers - CloudCentral

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:38:44 +0000

Whilst VMware reigns in the corporate world with vSphere stack, Open Enterprise-Class Cloud Infrastructures are quickly spreading across the academic community and governmental agencies.

That is no news to anyone, however slowly we are starting to see start-ups and well established corporations adopting Open Source platforms, and in some cases providing enterprise-class IaaS to general public.

Cloud Computing Offerings – Part 2 - “Wishes”

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:46:00 +0000

“A Bird’s-Eye Look at Cloud Computing offerings” published on November, 26th, generated a lot of interest from the Cloud providers. Both mentioned providers contacted me, providing some corrections to the blog post and requesting some additional feedback. Even a new Cloud start-up has requested some advice and offered me to be part of the beta program.

A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing… and Chargeback

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:53:00 +0000

Earlier this year Berkley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department published an article with Berkley’s view on What Cloud Computing is.

1. The illusion of infinite computing resources available on demand, thereby eliminating the need for Cloud Computing users to plan far ahead for provisioning;

A Bird’s-Eye Look at Cloud Computing offerings

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:54:00 +0000

Buzzword or not, Cloud Computing has been the subject of many discussions in the current IT industry that struggle to reduce costs. Vendors have been working tightly with their partners in a race to find out who gets first to the market and with the winning platform.

The Structure of the New IT Frontier: Cloud Computing

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:43:39 +0000

The people from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering from The University of Melbourne has been doing an amazing job compiling a meaningful quick-reference document explaining Cloud Computing for newbie's.

The document answer question like “What is Cloud Computing and who are the teams playing in this space?” and deep also in service delivery (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).