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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500...

0 replies - 1485 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/28

Amazon says it will cut prices on its core EC2 cloud services starting November 1st.  You can tell they are getting anxious about the impending release of...

0 replies - 1943 views - 10/27/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Are these your files? I found them on my cloud

Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking? It can happen in different ways. See for example this recent research paper, titled “Hey, You, Get...

0 replies - 896 views - 09/03/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1235 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud APIs need to be complemented by Cloud processes

A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement). That’s...

1 replies - 426 views - 05/27/09 by vambenepe in News

Reality check on Cloud portability

SD Times recently published an interesting article about “cloud interoperability”. It has some well-informed opinions. But, like all Cloud-related...

0 replies - 795 views - 04/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 3259 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News