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Aug 28, 2008

Benefiting from Cloud Computing Technology Trends

This article focuses on how Web-scale and commercial enterprises can benefit from current cloud computing technology trends to build a new class of datacenters that are more autonomous and dynamic than traditional implementations. Specifically, it explores how the change in application workloads is driving a need for accelerated file services to maintain optimized performance. Read more...

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Grid-Scale Monitoring, Open-Source Price

GroundWork Open Source has been doing open source network monitoring since 2004, and probably has the most extensive system out there for large networks, on par capability-wise with the packages from the large, commercial companies. It's largest installation has more the 10,000 nodes, and the company has teamed with Ganglia to target clusters and grids specifically.
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Bring Cloud Computing Inside

What if you could construct your own internal cloud within your own four walls, to maximize the benefits of the concept without being held up by its limitations? And what if you didn’t have to change your current applications or data while still being able to leverage external cloud resources where they best fit your needs? For many of us, this is, in fact, the ideal application of cloud computing.
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Database Virtualization: A Stepping Stone to Virtualization 2.0

In this interview with On-Demand Enteprise, Xkoto Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder Albert Lee discusses the ins and outs of the database virtualization market, as well as the future direction of Xkoto's one-of-a-kind Gridscale solution. Currently supporting only IBM's DB2 database, Gridscale will support SQL Server within the next 30 days.
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Hyperic Focuses X-Ray Vision on Google

In June, Hyperic introduced CloudStatus, a free hosted service that provides an independent, graphical dashboard view into the "general health" of Amazon Web Services. Today, just a couple weeks after a problem at the Google server farm left some users scratching their heads, Hyperic is announcing CloudStatus monitoring of Google App Engine.
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A Look at the Open Virtualization Format Specification

8/28/08 | Network World | The challenges virtualization presents IT managers is top of mind for many vendors and industry organizations. Read more...

Engineer Accidentally Deletes Cloud

8/28/08 | The Register | Another large cloud is on the fritz. Read more...

Enterprises Looking to the Clouds, Dell Says

8/28/08 | Internet News | System provider Dell pushing hardware, infrastructure help to oil giants, Facebook, Goldman Sachs and others. Read more...

Who Provides What in the Cloud

8/27/08 | InfoWorld | More and more tech companies promise cloud offerings. But they're not all the same. Read more...

Virtualization and Security - New Rules for a New Game

8/27/08 | Virtual Strategy Magazine | Many long-standing security techniques that have been successfully applied to managing physical machines may not be well-suited to a virtual environment. Read more...

Popularity of IT Integration and Service Oriented Architecture Waning

8/27/08 | Computer Weekly | An independent study has discovered that integration is less of a priority that it used to be. Read more...

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Raising the Bar for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing

8/15/08 | Aster Data | How can you meet the high-availability challenge of large-scale data warehousing? Is the answer to increase system capacity (vertical scaling) or add more servers (horizontal scaling)? Or, is there a better way? Learn the pros and cons of those approaches and how a cluster-based data analytics platform provides the highest level of price/performance and linear scalability.

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Derrick Harris

The Essence of 'On-Demand'
Dell's Failed Trademark: A Blessing in Disguise?
The whole ado around its failed trademark attempt aside (or perhaps because of it), you have to hand it to Dell. The company is making sure the world knows it's a player in the cloud market. I spoke with Dell about its "arms dealer" strategy some time ago, but now it appears Dell is showing even more of its hand.
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