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Week of June 30, 2008 Vol. 6, No. 78
IN THIS ISSUE
Shining a Light into Amazon's Darkness
Cloud Computing's Identity Crisis: Does a Definition Matter?
GigaSpaces Offers Scale-Out App Server on EC2
DynamicOps Intros Unique VM Management Software
GRIDtoday Editor Derrick Harris recaps last week's Structure 08 conference, among the first to focus on cloud computing, and gives his opinions on what he heard and learned. Although the event reaffirmed that we are nowhere near a consensus on the definition of cloud computing, Harris posits that it might not matter as long user excitement and enterprise interest remain high.
Hyperic's new CloudStatus.com gives users an independent, graphical dashboard view into the "general health" of AWS's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), and other elements of the big utility. The idea, the company says, is to provide a comprehensive, overall measure of availability, throughput and latency.
Yahoo announced changes to its organization aimed at improving its products, technologies and execution. Among the moves is the formation of a Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group charged with developing a computing infrastructure that balances scalability and cost effectiveness.
The new centers are designed to help clients in Africa and China tackle issues they would otherwise not be able to address. For example, using IBM's new centers, a university could access the computational power of a supercomputer to analyze data and determine how diseases might spread in a region or how climate changes will affect natural resources.
Bringing to life United Devices' pre-merger merger vision of focusing on the enterprise datacenter, Univa UD announced new leadership and a new strategy focused around it Reliance product. Reliance enables application providers, including managed service providers and internal IT groups, to offer application performance guarantees by ensuring capacity is always there when end users need it.
Commerzbank has restructured its entire loans transaction business unit, setting up a "loans factory," based on an SAP solution portfolio with enterprise-wide standardized and integrated processes. The high degree of workflow automation and shorter processing times with the integrated SAP solutions enable the bank to realize significantly improved efficiency.
lucy activewear, a lifestyle apparel company for women, has selected the Demandware eCommerce Platform to enhance its online shopping experience for consumers and to expand its rapidly growing cross-channel business. Demandware is backed by a patented grid computing architecture that delivers capacity as needed for performance and reliability that exceeds industry standards.
Microsoft is among the first clients to implement IBM's iDataPlex system -- a new category of server developed by IBM for Internet-scale computing. IBM also introduced today a new high-performance computing option for iDataPlex, to bring supercomputing power to cloud environments.
Muhammad Zaman, assistant professor in biomedical engineering, recently introduced Cellular Environment in Living Systems @Home or CELS@Home for short. The cancer-fighting program already has more than 1,000 computer users worldwide contributing to the project.
The Singapore Computer Systems (SCS)-Hewlett-Packard Singapore (HP) consortium has been awarded the Grid Service Provisioning project by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore to provide and deliver software, computing power and storage as a pay-per-use, on-demand, on-line service to business enterprises and public sector agencies.
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