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Oct 11, 2008

The Grid-Cloud Connection (Pt. II): Spare the Hype

The advent of cloud computing has drastically affected the product offerings and solutions by grid computing veterans. Everything is about flexibility, mobility, virtualization and, overall, being on-demand. However, after seeing how quickly a nebulous term can lose favor among the user community, vendors are betting on the delivery model but not necessarily the terminology. Read more...

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The Grid-Cloud Connection (Pt. I): Compare and Contrast

Burned to some degree by the confusion surrounding grid computing, many vendors have drastically cut the term from their marketing strategies. As a result, these vendors are not so quick to latch onto cloud computing. However, many of their new directions could easily fall under the cloud umbrella, and those in the know readily acknowledge that grid technologies underlie the cloud. So, what's a middleware vendor to do? How can a user tell the difference?
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Network-Attached Memory: Virtualization for Java Environments

Network-attached memory is analogous to network-attached storage (NAS) in that it provides a service to thousands of connected clients transparently. As NAS is transparent underneath the file system, network-attached memory is transparent underneath the Java language. But in Terracotta's network-attached memory pool, everything can be massively scaled out.
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Oracle Shifts Grid Focus to the Application

Oracle's newest candidate to solve some of IT Nation's biggest problems has now officially hit the campaign trail, and its name is WebLogic Application Grid. This new assemblage of software is meant to put grid capabilities at the foundation of an organization's computing operations by pooling IT resources and allocating them to workloads as needed. But this is one solution Oracle is not labeling "cloud computing."
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Cloud Computing and the Financial Crisis

A somewhat neglected aspect of the current financial crisis is the huge spike in trading volumes in recent days. In some cases, they have raised to more than double the average of the months (and years) that preceded the crisis. Systems, of course, don't care if stocks are going up or down; they just need to handle the transactions. Cloud computing can help ensure they meet this task.
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Developers Discuss Ways to Program in Cloud Environments

10/10/08 | SD Times | Developers are still trying to figure out just what building applications for the cloud really entails. Read more...

Putting Your Trust in the Cloud

10/10/08 | LinuxInsider | Security in cloud computing is an evolution of the age-old business model of outsourcing. Read more...

The Many Faces of Clustered Storage

10/10/08 | Byte and Switch | Clustered storage is one of the hottest buzz words in the industry, but it means different things when different vendors talk about it. Read more...

Data Warehousing in the Clouds

10/9/08 | Business Intelligence Network | Data warehousing in the clouds has the potential to enable business executives and IT departments to do more with less, work around organizational latency and compete with agility in the digital economy. Read more...

Clouds, Black Holes and Roach Motels

10/9/08 | CIO Update | Data portability (or lack thereof) is one of the biggest issues in the cloud. Read more...

Networking in the Future

10/9/08 | Processor | Future datacenters will likely use the network and connectivity technology and standards of today only in a more efficient way. Read more...

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The Essence of 'On-Demand'
SaaS: Is It Really Cloud Computing?
Here are some quick thoughts on a couple of yesterday's cloud computing announcements. What these show us are two distinct trends: (1) cloud computing is becoming increasingly viable; and (2) the word "cloud" to describe SaaS is creeping dangerously close to lethal levels.
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