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Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing"

jg21 writes "Even though IBM's Irving Wladawsky Berger reports a leading analyst as having said recently that 'There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,' here are no fewer than twenty attempts at a definition of the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world — some of them really quite good. From the article: 'Cloud computing is...the user-friendly version of grid computing.' (Trevor Doerksen) and 'Cloud computing really is accessing resources and services needed to perform functions with dynamically changing needs. An application or service developer requests access from the cloud rather than a specific endpoint or named resource.' (Kevin Hartig)"

SOASTA Announces Testing for Amazon EC2 Community

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 23 -- SOASTA, the leading provider of cloud-based testing solutions, today announced support for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). A Web testing solution built on the cloud to enable application testing in the cloud, SOASTA CloudTest for EC2 allows developers to easily and affordably turn the Amazon cloud into a Virtual Test Lab for load and performance testing of their applications.

Cloud Computing - Univa UD Extends UniCluster to Amazon EC2 Cloud

Univa UD announced the publication of a white paper and supporting tools that documents the process of implementing its open source UniCluster product in Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) web service.

Seven cloud-computing security risks

Cloud computing is picking up traction with businesses, but before you jump into the cloud, you should know the unique security risks it entails

Open source "Cloud Tools" for deploying and testing Java EE applications on EC2

As applications and infrastructure move into the Cloud the need for management becomes more important all the time. This set of Cloud Tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications comes as a Maven plugin to make your life even easier.

CRM BLOG SAFARISizing Up the Cloud

How big is the cloud likely to get? Merrill Lynch is expecting the market to reach a ballpark figure of $160 billion -- give or take a few billion -- by 2011. Though the firm's expectations may be audacious, it's also possible that Merrill is underestimating cloud computing's true potential.

OpenSolaris and MySQL Support Now on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will now offer the OpenSolaris Operating System to its customers as well as give users access to MySQL premium technical support. Amazon EC2 is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use.

OpenSolaris and MySQL Support Now on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will now offer the OpenSolaris Operating System to its customers as well as give users access to MySQL premium technical support. Amazon EC2 is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use.

Bringing down software margins with the cloud and open source

Microsoft expects to lose margin as "cloud" competitors start to eat away at its core businesses. Kudos to Microsoft for calling out the obvious. But Microsoft still has a lot to learn if it thinks it can charge more under its own cloud model because "the customer will pay Microsoft a larger fee, since Microsoft also runs and maintains all the hardware," as Nick Carr notes:

Hey You, Standardize My Cloud

"'What if there were a way to write and run enterprise applications that you could move from cloud to cloud?'--Alistair Croll, GigaOm

Patriot Act Dampening Cloud Computing?

Julie188 writes "Governments are turning the Internet into a cyberspace reflection of real-world geographic conflicts. One report says that the Canadian government is forbidding its IT organizations to use services that store or host the government's data outside their sovereign territory. They especially cannot use services where the data is stored in the United States because of fears over the Patriot Act. What kinds of jurisdiction issues might people face — think Google cooperating with the Chinese government — as cloud computing becomes the norm and your data is stored in 'offshore parts' of the cloud?"

Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences

Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken’s two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover:

Introducing "Cloud Burst": Cemaphore Systems' Blog for Bringing E-mail Continuity into the Cloud

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Introducing "Cloud Burst": Cemaphore Systems' Blog for Bringing E-mail Continuity into the Cloud

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Hyperic service peers into Amazon cloud

Cloud computing is growing in popularity, thanks in large part to the availability of Web-based services that take some of the pain out of IT.

CLOUD-MAKING MACHINE IS SUDDING MARVELLOUS

When one-time magician Francisco Guerra decided to float an idea he really pulled a rabbit out of the hat - a cloud-making machine.

Virtualization - Google Puts a Price on Its Cloud

The cloud-sharing gambit meant to entice developers to build their web applications on the same infrastructure that powers Google’s own applications – and in the process locks them into Google instead of Microsoft – has been in beta for the last six weeks and limited to 10,000 developers.

Morph AppSpace Extends Cloud-Based Platform as a Service to Support Java and Grails, from Just a Dollar a Day

TMCNet: Morph AppSpace Extends Cloud-Based Platform as a Service to Support Java and Grails, from Just a Dollar a Day

Does Yahoo reorg signal cloud computing move?

Announcement of a cloud computing and data infrastructure group has some wondering if Yahoo plans to enter the market for hosted IT services like Google and Amazon

Google opens cloud to (all) earthbound developers

Google I/O Google has offered a spot on its cloud to every developer down on earth. And it can almost tell you how much it plans to charge for this sky-high real estate.

Google opens cloud to (all) earthbound developers

Google I/O Google has offered a spot on its cloud to every developer down on earth. And it can almost tell you how much it plans to charge for this sky-high real estate.

Google's cloud courts web developers

Google held its first ever developers conference - Google I/O - in San Francisco earlier this month. The message was clear and simple: the Web is the new platform for application development. Google wants to make its own slice of web infrastructure (the Google cloud) more accessible to developers and encourage them to build and run applications in it.

Vast Chile volcano ash cloud partially collapses

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - A towering cloud of hot ash, gas and molten rock spewed miles into the air by a volcano in southern Chile has partially collapsed, raising fears it could smother surrounding villages, an expert said on Tuesday.

Vast Chile volcano ash cloud partially collapses

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - A towering cloud of hot ash, gas and molten rock spewed miles into the air by a volcano in southern Chile has partially collapsed, raising fears it could smother surrounding villages, an expert said on Tuesday.

Venus Express Solves Cloud Mystery

As ESA's Venus Express orbits our sister planet, new images of the cloud structure of one of the most enigmatic atmospheres of the Solar System reveal brand-new details.

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