Saturday, December 19, 2009

Seismic Shift in compute models?

With Amazon's launch spot pricing/bidding for EC2 the case/drive for an enterprise compute spigot becomes all the more compelling. Today when pricing solutions typically we comparing the an internal TCO against a fix rate of X for compute cycles. With this model... we can and should be building provisioning engines that push/burst computation (HPC requirements/apps) to where it's the cheapest.

With this move by Amazon I would expect to see other players follow suit and quickly and perhaps some of that follow the sun model we strive for in IT can finally be achieved through global cloud mesh with cost based provision layer in between computing needs and computing resources.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hypervisor Shoot out

it's a little geeky I know if your interested in the big picture but beneath it all sits the enabling technology - the Hypervisor. I found this shoot today comparing XEN, HyperV and VMware for those interested these type of things...

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Great article on clouding in information week comparing vendors

This article contrasts some of the main differences between some of the major IaaS vendors. Surprisingly GoGrid fell off the map (not rated) but it does at least provide a landscape view along with contract and cost per hour etc.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/utility_ondemand/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219501228

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Citrix Cloud..

A friend of mine sent me this post.. which has the most obvious description of the cloud that I will now start using :->... (abstraction of hardware from software)