Amazon creates cloud computing spot market | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said on his blog:

The central concept in this new option is that of the Spot Price, which we determine based on current supply and demand and will fluctuate periodically…This gives customers exact control over the maximum cost they are incurring for their workloads, and often will provide them with substantial savings. It is important to note that customers will pay only the existing Spot Price; the maximum price just specifies how much a customer is willing to pay for capacity as the Spot Price changes.

via Amazon creates cloud computing spot market | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com.

TMForum announces new organization of major Cloud buyers

The TMForum has created a new and noticeable organization called “Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council” to influence the Cloud ecosystem from customer perspective.

http://www.tmforum.org/ManagingCloudServices/EnterpriseCloudBuyers/8009/Home.html

Focus will be on interoperability and customer requirements like SLAs. A lot of  big Cloud vendors are on board, also, excl. Amazon…

Microsoft reorganizes to strengthen its Cloud business

From Network World:

“Microsoft Tuesday created a new division designed to brings its cloud and on-premises software development together and provide a consistent platform for corporate customers.

The Server and Cloud Division (SCD) will be part of the Server and Tools business unit and is a combination of the Windows Server and solutions group and the Windows Azure group.”

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/120809-microsoft-azure.html

The Economist: Cover Story and Article on Cloud Computing

“Battle of the clouds -
The fight to dominate cloud computing will increase competition and innovation.”

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14644393&fsrc=rss

and

“Clash of the clouds -

The launch of Windows 7 marks the end of an era in computing—and the beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, Apple and others”

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14637206&fsrc=rss

IDC’s New IT Cloud Services Forecast: 2009-2013

A blog entry of IDG-Analyst Frank Gens on IDC’s new Cloud study. (Including some facts and figure of the report.)

http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=543

Just one citation: “The five year growth outlook remains strong, with a five-year annual growth rate of 26% – over six times the rate of traditional IT offerings.”

(Developers’) Perceptions of Cloud Service Providers (by EDC)

“Perceptions of Cloud Service Providers – Who’s Who and Where in the Clouds

A poll of the perceptions of software developers on the major players in the Cloud computing space.”

http://www.evansdata.com/research/market_alerts_start.php

Free for registred users.

IBM and the Cloud

Eine Übersicht über die vielen Cloud-Aktivitäten der IBM:

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cloud/

Rady Bias estimates: Amazon EC2 makes $220M+ revenue per year

In his blog post “Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually” Randy Bias estimates Amazon’s revenue from EC2 business.

Source:

http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/amazons-ec2-generating-220m-annually#comment-18249152

SAP-Hosting-Geschäft geht an T-Systems

“T-Systems hat SAPs europäisches Hosting-Geschäft übernommen und wird künftig die Softwareanwendungen von fast 90 SAP-Kunden in seinen Rechenzentren betreuen.” Nach weiteren Presseangaben sollen die Angebote auch um eine “verbrauchsorientierte Abrechnung” erweitert werden. Sounds to me like Cloud Computing…

http://www.silicon.de/mittelstand/0,39038986,41502691,00/sap_hosting_geschaeft+geht+an+t_systems.htm

Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you create your own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances and connect it to your existing network using an IPsec VPN connection.

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/08/introducing-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc.html

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/

Amazon releases Amazon VPC “to connect your existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection” as limited beta. Important step to hybrid Clouds for larger enterprises.

Why Private Cloud Will Make IT Think Like Wal-Mart

http://www.cio.com/article/500096/Why_Private_Cloud_Will_Make_IT_Think_Like_Wal_Mart

Hypertable

http://www.hypertable.org/

Opera Unite

http://unite.opera.com

I.B.M. to Help Clients Fight Cost and Complexity

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/technology/business-computing/15blue.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

“The information technology infrastructure is under stress already, and the data flood is just accelerating,” said Samuel J. Palmisano, I.B.M.’s chief executive. “We’ve decided that how you solve that starts by organizing technology around the workload.”

The Dawn of Maneuver Warfare in IT Security

http://govcloud.ulitzer.com/node/994396

New York Times: Data Center Overload

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14search-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Google Wave Federation Protocol

http://www.waveprotocol.org/

Annelidous – Virtual Infrastructure Management Framework

http://www.annelido.us/

Drizzle – A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web

https://launchpad.net/drizzle