FZI Cloud Computing News Stream

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

Jens Nimis — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:43:54 +0000

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.

Posted in Amazon

TMForum announces new organization of major Cloud buyers

Jens Nimis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:27:40 +0000

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…

Posted in Uncategorized

Microsoft reorganizes to strengthen its Cloud business

Jens Nimis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:44:22 +0000

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

Posted in Uncategorized

The Economist: Cover Story and Article on Cloud Computing

Jens Nimis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:22:41 +0000

“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

Posted in Uncategorized

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

Jens Nimis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:26:00 +0000

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.”

Posted in economy

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

Jens Nimis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:19:57 +0000

“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.

Posted in cloud vendors

IBM and the Cloud

Jens Nimis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:10:53 +0000

Eine Übersicht über die vielen Cloud-Aktivitäten der IBM:

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

Posted in Uncategorized

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

Markus Klems — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:57:08 +0000

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

Posted in Amazon

SAP-Hosting-Geschäft geht an T-Systems

Jens Nimis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:10:55 +0000

“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

Posted in economy

Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Cloud

Markus Klems — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:51:05 +0000

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

Posted in Amazon

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Jens Nimis — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:30:18 +0000

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.

Posted in Amazon, cloud architecture

Why Private Cloud Will Make IT Think Like Wal-Mart

Markus Klems — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:54:29 +0000

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

Posted in cloud architecture, economy

Hypertable

Markus Klems — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:09:38 +0000

http://www.hypertable.org/

Posted in cloud architecture

Opera Unite

Markus Klems — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:05:01 +0000

http://unite.opera.com

Posted in Uncategorized

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

Markus Klems — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:58:49 +0000

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.”

Posted in economy, IBM

The Dawn of Maneuver Warfare in IT Security

Markus Klems — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:11:36 +0000

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

Posted in DoD

New York Times: Data Center Overload

Markus Klems — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:58:20 +0000

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

Posted in cloud architecture, economy

Google Wave Federation Protocol

Markus Klems — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:43:38 +0000

http://www.waveprotocol.org/

Posted in Uncategorized

Annelidous – Virtual Infrastructure Management Framework

Markus Klems — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:49:38 +0000

http://www.annelido.us/

Posted in cloud architecture

Drizzle – A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web

Markus Klems — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:35:34 +0000

https://launchpad.net/drizzle

Posted in cloud architecture

McKinsey Report: Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing

Markus Klems — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:35:08 +0000

http://uptimeinstitute.org/content/view/353/319

Posted in economy

Amazons BI-on-the-fly using MapReduce-as-a-service brings huge cloud data crunching to the masses

Markus Klems — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:03:47 +0000

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2888

Posted in Amazon, economy, Hadoop

Amazon Elastic Map Reduce

Markus Klems — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:27:35 +0000

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/

Posted in Amazon, Hadoop

Envisioning the Cloud (marketspace whitepaper)

Markus Klems — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:17:10 +0000

PDF: http://www.marketspaceadvisory.com/cloud/Envisioning-the-Cloud.pdf

Posted in cloud architecture, cloud vendors, economy, Google

AppScale Overlay for Eucalyptus

Markus Klems — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:56:59 +0000

http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/

Posted in App Engine

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse available

Markus Klems — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:56:13 +0000

An Eclipse plug-in for AWS development and deployment: http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/

Posted in Amazon

Google App Engine Lets Your Web App Grow Up

Markus Klems — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:00:32 +0000

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/google-app-engine-lets-your-we.html

Posted in Uncategorized

Berkeley Releases Cloud Computing Study

Markus Klems — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:49:55 +0000

http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Berkeley-Releases-Cloud-Computing-Study-39502692.html

Posted in Uncategorized

Processor Value Unit [PVU] licensing for Distributed SW

Markus Klems — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:18:52 +0000

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html

Posted in Uncategorized

IBM partners with AWS

Markus Klems — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:17:10 +0000

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/ibm/

Posted in Uncategorized

Cloud Computing: Forscher haben noch viel Arbeit

Markus Klems — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:25:26 +0000

http://www.computerzeitung.de/articles/cloud_computing_forscher_haben_noch_viel_arbeit:/2009008/31833794_ha_CZ.html?null=&&page=1

Posted in Uncategorized

iPhone Console for EC2

Markus Klems — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:07:49 +0000

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/02/iphone-console-for-ec2.html

Posted in Amazon

Small Web Hosts Turning to Mini Clouds

Markus Klems — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:19:40 +0000

http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/02/small-web-hosts-turning-to-mini-clouds.html

Posted in Uncategorized

Combining Clouds: Appirios ReferMyFriends App Deftly Links Facebook To Salesforce

Markus Klems — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:58:35 +0000

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/01/30/combining-clouds-appirios-refermyfriends-app-deftly-links-facebook-to-salesforce/

Posted in Uncategorized

Cloud Computing Ontology

Markus Klems — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:05 +0000

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~lyouseff/CCOntology/CloudOntology.pdf

http://groups.google.com/group/cloudforum/browse_thread/thread/a6cde5edd3a9a5c5?hl=en

http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/cloud-computing-taxonomy-ontology-please-review.html

Posted in cloud architecture

Bringing IT to Underserved Markets through Cloud Computing

Markus Klems — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:54:40 +0000

http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/ipip/blog/2009/01/21/bringing-it-to-underserved-markets-through-cloud-computing

Posted in Uncategorized

A maturity model for cloud computing

Markus Klems — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:28:04 +0000

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10122295-240.html

http://blogs.sun.com/downstream/entry/an_evolving_maturity_model_for

http://rodos.haywood.org/2008/12/maturity-model-for-cloud-computing-2009.html

Cloud Maturity Models don’t make sense:

www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/cloud_maturity.html

http://www.zapthink.com/news.html?id=2753

Posted in cloud architecture, economy

Adobe Launches Dev Tools In Amazon Cloud

Markus Klems — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:26:23 +0000

http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/hosted_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212800180&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

Posted in Uncategorized

Cloud Oriented Infrastructure

Markus Klems — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:11:55 +0000

http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/01/cloud-oriented-infrastructure.html

Posted in Uncategorized

CloudSlam 09 Conference

Markus Klems — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:08:06 +0000

http://www.cloudslam09.com

Posted in Uncategorized

The Enterprise Cloud

Markus Klems — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:55:51 +0000

http://jroller.com/MasterMark/entry/the_enterprise_cloud

Posted in economy

Public AMI Count

Markus Klems — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:42:25 +0000

http://neotactics.com/blog/technology/vm-image-sprawl-in-real-life/

Posted in Amazon

The Self-governing Internet: Coordination by Design

Markus Klems — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:04:11 +0000

http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP197/CCSWP197.html

Posted in cloud architecture

Cloud Computing Benefits from ISV Perspective

Markus Klems — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:57:25 +0000

http://www.smartertools.com/blog/archive/2008/11/20/cloud-computing-challenges-benefits-and-the-future.aspx

PDF: http://www.smartertools.com/downloads/documents/Seeing_Through_the_Fog_Cloud_Computing.pdf

Posted in Uncategorized

Google Cloud Economics, The Quota

Markus Klems — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:40:56 +0000

http://www.elasticvapor.com/2008/12/google-cloud-economics-quota.html

Posted in economy, Google

WaveMaker Cloud IDE announced

Markus Klems — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:49:19 +0000

http://www.ddj.com/web-development/212400346

Posted in Uncategorized

Three questions that need answers before enterprises will go to the Cloud

Markus Klems — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:31:21 +0000

“There are software tools like CIRBA and VMware Capacity Planner that help customers figure out which applications will play nicely in virtualized environments, but to my knowledge nothing of the sort exists in the cloud world.”

http://johngannonblog.com/2008/09/29/three-questions-enterprises-need-to-answer-before-moving-to-cloud/?referer=sphere_related_content/

Posted in economy

GoGrid: Ten Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009

Markus Klems — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:39:08 +0000

http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/12/02/ten-cloud-computing-predictions-for-2009/

Posted in economy

Red Hat Delivers Scalable SOA to Booz Allen Hamilton

Markus Klems — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:53:58 +0000

http://www.on-demandenterprise.com/topic/SOA/Red_Hat_Delivers_Scalable_SOA_to_Booz_Allen_Hamilton.html

Posted in cloud architecture, SOA

A Quick Guide To The Big Four Cloud Offerings

Markus Klems — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:06:17 +0000

http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/quick-guide-to-big-four-cloud-offerings.html

Posted in Uncategorized