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Utility ComputingAugust 25, 2006Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)By: Ahmar AbbasA few weeks back I blogged about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and how it was gaining traction in the market.Well, it turns out that Amazon has even greater ambitions than just providing loads of hosted and managed storage! Today they announced their Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Read Full Article... Link | 25 August 06 @ 10:52 | Discuss ( 12 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 3950 Views)August 24, 2006Software shops get SaaS-yBy: Ahmar AbbasIndependent Software Vendors (ISVs) that venture into the SaaS world have taken on two distinct sets of responsibilities. First, like traditional software companies, SaaS vendors are responsible for continually delivering innovative and relevant software products. Read Full Article...Link | 24 August 06 @ 07:37 | Discuss ( 11 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 3722 Views)July 12, 2006Amazon Simple Storage Service - Gaining MomentumBy: Ahmar AbbasWhat do Microsoft and SmugMug have in common? Both rely on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for cheap and reliable web-scale storage. With Amazon S3, growing companies now have the resources to look and feel like a Fortune 500 enterprise.Today, Amazon announced a variety of customers that together are storing more than 800 million data objects using Amazon S3. On one end of Read Full Article... Link | 12 July 06 @ 04:31 | Discuss ( 9 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 5361 Views)December 04, 2003How to get to Utility ComputingBy: Ahmar AbbasAnn Bednarz and Denise Dubie who write for Network World , have an article out on how to migrate your existing environment to the utility computing model. I had spent some time with them in October discussing this topic and the strategy that I have been suggesting to my clients....Enterprise companies can, through attrition, introduce and embed these intelligent devices that have self-managing features into the networkRead Full Article... Link | 04 December 03 @ 11:57 | Discuss ( 3 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 5835 Views)December 02, 2003Grid-Based Storage Gets HotBy: Ahmar AbbasRecently launched ExaGrid Systems is using commodity hardware to let multiple storage servers -- connected in multiple locations -- back up and protect each other. ExaGrid's boxes provide access via standard network file protocols such as NFS, CIFS, and FTP. The building blocks of the system are 1U-high servers ("disk nodes") with an Intel processor, 1 Tbyte of storage, and 1 Gbyte of memory; as many as about 250 of these can be stacked together behind a single ExaGrid filer. ExaGrid expects its solution to be 30% cheaper than existing technologies.Read Full Article... Link | 02 December 03 @ 11:47 | Discuss ( 6 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 6025 Views)November 26, 2003DCML consortium expands to 44 companiesBy: Ahmar AbbasThe Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization has expanded to forty-four members as seven new companies joined the industry-wide DCML standards effort. Joining are ASG Software Solutions, Moonlight Systems, Motive, newScale, Novadigm, Sphera, and Topspin Communications.I still remain troubled by the glaring absence of the hardware vendors (compute, storage, networks) from this consortium. Read Full Article... Link | 26 November 03 @ 10:15 | Discuss ( 4 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 5414 Views) |
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