Cloud Computing

Folks,

Canonical released their latest Ubuntu 9.10 family along with the server edition yesterday.... and it is very interesting to note that this standard Ubuntu 9.10 Server Release comes with Eucalyptus configured to run on your servers. Yes, now one can 'build' private cloud off the shelf! Read more at  (www.ubuntu.com/cloud)

 Canonical calls it Ubuntu EC - much like what is there on Amazon. Much better is this ease of migrating your applications from Ubuntu EC to Amazon EC2 since Canonical and Amazon have agreed to host the Ubuntu EC on Amazon AWS making it possible to run the images from your private cloud on Amazon EC2 without having to make any changes. ... From an enterprise view point, this is a good stepping stone - either to check out applications on the private cloud and then move it to EC2 or to run it in the hybrid cloud mode: enterprise sensitive parts of the large application run on the private cloud while the resource hungry parts run on the public cloud.....

Read more about this release in http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-910-server-edition

Three Cheers to Canonical for making this happen - most folks were struggling either in putting together a private cloud within their firms or in pulling together a hybrid one. This was timely release for those in IT depts as well as researchers experimenting in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.

Here are my posers to you....  to help point out quick immediately apparent issues or in giving off the cuff suggestions / solutions:

1. Now that we have this server release - what issues do you think is still not addressed in making the private cloud / hybrid cloud setups seamless?

2. While the private cloud may not be as performance efficient as AWS (performance becomes attractive beyond certain threshold levels on the scale..) what do you think we need to do to make this private cloud / hybrid cloud more performance efficient....

Thanks

Posted by Dr. T S Mohan at 03:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Expected that it would remain among the key technology trend during 2010 and beyond, but never expected it this way – amazingly, Cloud Computing has made it as the #1 technology to watch at Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Areas for 2010. Rising from #3 during 2009, Cloud Computing is the #1 technology trend that you can’t afford to ignore for at least three years now!!

At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo held on October 20th 2009, Gartner analyst Dave Cearley presented insights into the top 10 technologies and trends to rule the world in 2010.

What Gartner said – Specifically, companies should figure out what cloud services might give them value, how to write applications that run on cloud services, and whether they should build their own private clouds that use Internet-style networking technology within a company's firewall.

Cloud computing takes several forms, from the nuts and bolts of Amazon Web Services to the more finished foundation of Google App Engine to the full-on application of Salesforce.com. Companies should figure out what if any of those approaches are most suited to their challenges, Gartner said.

What amazes me here is a sudden burst of tech companies in recent past claiming to be a cloud company, has a cloud strategy and/or has cloud offerings; whereas my predicament is there is not enough revenue being generated by cloud computing companies to match the demand and hype surrounding the cloud.
 
Let’s wait and watch how Gartner’s 2010 predictions harmonizes with the investments of tech companies to further understand Cloud and create solutions for enterprise customers who wish to adopt…

View Gartner press release here

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