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| Photographic Creativity Meets Business in the Cloud |
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| ShootQ’s Customers Have Collected More Than $144 Million Through It’s SaaS Solution Hosted on the Joyent Cloud. | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The more visible examples of creativity often involve stories of genius. Whether staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, appreciating the complexity of sending a man to the moon, or admiring an Ansel Adams blackand-white landscape, we often associate pure genius at work in creating these masterpieces. And yet, creative inspiration and delivery don’t need to be so grand: Any mother who on the spot thinks of a clever way to distract her toddler knows this to be true. | |
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| Entertainment Insurance Gets Set in the Cloud |
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| How a husband and wife team built a multmillion-dollar business that leverages Joyent’s cloud to bring new levels of automation to a very challenging insurance industry vertical. | |
| by Larry Aiken | |
| With all the numerous details that go into creating a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, calling the insurance agent to get a policy is often a producer’s have-to-have-it-today, last-minute call. Unfortunately, delivering insurance quotes for entertainment has always been a challenge to automate, meaning most players take at least three days to respond. This created an opportunity for entrepreneurs Andee Abad and Brad Hodges from the Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Services, Inc. to step in and deliver an upgrade to the insurance industry, bringing new levels of automation and delivering same-day entertainment insurance quotes. They didn’t have the time, money or interest to build their own IT infrastructure. Instead, they choose Joyent’s cloud to play a starring role. | |
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| Facilitating Brand Ambassadors at Facebook Scale |
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| Context Optional Enables Brands to Socialize, While Joyent Provides the Underlying Cloud Infrastructure | |
| by David Macias & Vince Vasquez | |
| A key to becoming relevant in the world of social media is to develop brand ambassadors, people who will enthusiastically promote your brand to their friends. However, building brand ambassadors is no slam dunk. A technology-enabled service provider like Context Optional can work with your brand marketing team to develop engaging social media campaigns, including the building of Facebook applications. In parallel, a cloud computing provider such as Joyent can deliver the underlying infrastructure to enable the campaigns that go viral to scale at Facebook scale. | |
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| Photographic Creativity Meets Business in the Cloud |
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| ShootQ’s Customers Have Collected More Than $144 Million Through It’s SaaS Solution Hosted on the Joyent Cloud. | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The more visible examples of creativity often involve stories of genius. Whether staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, appreciating the complexity of sending a man to the moon, or admiring an Ansel Adams blackand-white landscape, we often associate pure genius at work in creating these masterpieces. And yet, creative inspiration and delivery don’t need to be so grand: Any mother who on the spot thinks of a clever way to distract her toddler knows this to be true. | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Entertainment Insurance Gets Set in the Cloud |
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| How a husband and wife team built a multmillion-dollar business that leverages Joyent’s cloud to bring new levels of automation to a very challenging insurance industry vertical. | |
| by Larry Aiken | |
| With all the numerous details that go into creating a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, calling the insurance agent to get a policy is often a producer’s have-to-have-it-today, last-minute call. Unfortunately, delivering insurance quotes for entertainment has always been a challenge to automate, meaning most players take at least three days to respond. This created an opportunity for entrepreneurs Andee Abad and Brad Hodges from the Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Services, Inc. to step in and deliver an upgrade to the insurance industry, bringing new levels of automation and delivering same-day entertainment insurance quotes. They didn’t have the time, money or interest to build their own IT infrastructure. Instead, they choose Joyent’s cloud to play a starring role. | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Facilitating Brand Ambassadors at Facebook Scale |
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| Context Optional Enables Brands to Socialize, While Joyent Provides the Underlying Cloud Infrastructure | |
| by David Macias & Vince Vasquez | |
| A key to becoming relevant in the world of social media is to develop brand ambassadors, people who will enthusiastically promote your brand to their friends. However, building brand ambassadors is no slam dunk. A technology-enabled service provider like Context Optional can work with your brand marketing team to develop engaging social media campaigns, including the building of Facebook applications. In parallel, a cloud computing provider such as Joyent can deliver the underlying infrastructure to enable the campaigns that go viral to scale at Facebook scale. | |
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| Enable CloudFront for Your Application’s Non-Dynamic Content |
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| October 02 2012 |
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| CloudFront is Amazon’s Content Delivery Network, a service that aims to speed up delivery of content to users in different geographies. It gives developers access to a worldwide infrastructure that minimizes latency by serving content from the edge location closest to the end user.
This article describes two basic use cases utilizing a CDN for non-dynamic content in a typical web application, and provides CloudFront-specific configuration examples. |
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| Cost Modeling of Cloud Deployments on Public Cloud such as AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace with RightScale-PlanForCloud |
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| July 19 2012 |
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| PlanForCloud allows innovative modeling of the elements of cloud deployments, such as servers, storage, databases and data transfers, as well as usage scenarios that incorporate growth, seasonality and other variability in the consumption of cloud resources. Deployments are run through a simulation to create a detailed 3-year cost report that enables you to accurately forecast costs for new deployments or budget for future usage. You do not need to be on the cloud and we do not require any cloud credentials. |
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| Amazon Outage: Is it a Story of a Conspiracy? – Chapter 2 |
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| July 16 2012 |
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| No doubt that the cloud will fail again. I believe that although the customers are ultimately responsible for the high availability of their services, the AWS cloud guys should also take a step back to learn and improve – every additional outage diminishes from the cloud’s reliability as a place for all. |
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| Net Neutrality and Cloud Computing |
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| January 13 2012 |
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| The Internet revolution has been people powered from the very beginning, and should remain so. The minute that anyone, whether from government or the private sector, starts to control how people use the Internet, it is the beginning of the end of the Net as we know it.
Lack of net neutrality will baffle the cloud computing progress and is not good for infrastructure companies, application providers or consumers. The company building the road can’t demand that only its car will run on the road. |
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| Consumption, Utilization and Elasticity: Basics |
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| August 04 2011 |
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| Lets start with a basic scenario where there is a sudden peak in the demand for an application service as the amount of clients' requests increase. This event leads to a direct and immediate impact of the loa placed on the web servers that host the service. In the traditional world, the number of servers is fixed, therefore an overload adversely affects the application performance and the service may slow down or even be terminated. The IT team would want to restore the environment functionality and bring the service up as soon as possible. The immediate impact of such an event on the business can be devastating. Starting with this simple understanding, we can move into the world of cloud computing use including resources consumption, while relating to the key differences between the traditional data center and today’s cloud technologies. |
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| Carrier Cloud Opportunity |
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| May 25 2011 |
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| Co-Founder and CTO Randy Bias on how web-scale cloud is the only way to be successful in the cloud. Carriers have a huge opportunity in the cloud, but only if they embrace the disruption of web-scale cloud and adopt a two-cloud strategy in the short term.
To be successful, you must also build and deploy web-scale cloud in the model proven by Amazon Web Services and other cloud pioneers. To capture the huge total addressable market available in mobile, web apps, and emerging markets, web-scale cloud is the only path forward.
The good news for carriers is that implementing a two-cloud strategy is a low risk move that will deliver much more favorable cost and deployment metrics than they’ve been trained to expect. |
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| “Compute Efficiency” and Cloud Computing |
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| January 25 2011 |
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| Energy analogies abound with respect to cloud computing and its effect on enterprise IT operations and economics. Nick Carr's "The Big Switch" laid out the case for why computing will be subject to many of the same forces as the electricity market was. While this analogy isn't perfect, there are often interesting parallels that are worth exploring. |
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| Hybrid Cloud Storage: In Conversation with Ian Howells, CMO of StorSimple |
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| December 07 2010 |
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| StorSimple is a Silicon Valley based start-up focused on application-optimized cloud storage for Microsoft Server applications. StorSimple's investors include Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Redpoint Ventures. Following a $13 million Series B funding recently, Ian Howells joined the company as their Chief Marketing. Howells is an industry veteran with 25 years of experience at leading companies such as Ingres, Documentum, SeeBeyond and Alfresco. He is responsible for the StorSimple marketing strategy and operational activities globally.
StorSimple's approach appears to be a hybrid cloud storage strategy that promises to bring the benefits of the cloud to on-premises applications without forcing the migration of applications into the cloud or switch users to new unfamiliar applications. I spoke with Ian Howells about the drivers of the cloud storage market and in particular about how hybrid cloud storage plays a role in the evolution of the cloud. |
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| Hybrid Cloud: Best of Both Worlds |
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| October 15 2010 |
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| In a typical enterprise today, one finds a heterogeneous mix of modern platforms and legacy platforms of many vintages. With the emergence of a variety of cloud service models (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) and an array of deployment models (private, public, and community), we will most likely see a heterogeneous mix of cloud environments in the enterprise of the future. Furthermore, cloud computing may be a great fit for some applications and workloads, but there will always be some data, processes, and applications that will remain on-premises for reasons of regulatory compliance, mission-critical or classified data, control, and cost. |
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| Joyent Arista Switch Management |
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| July 24 2010 |
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| Joyent, a pioneer in cloud computing, and Arista Networks, the pioneer of 10 GbE cloud networking, are working together to build technology that will enable the automated management of network resources using Joyent cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies are now working together to provide users of Joyent infrastructure built using Arista switches with centralized switch management that will significantly improve the manageability, scalability and security of cloud infrastructure. |
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| The Business Value of the Hybrid Cloud |
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| June 30 2010 |
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| Hybrid computing clouds provide cloud computing that delivers the appropriate offerings with provisioning, pay-as-you-go pricing for relatively limitless capacity, improved security, and some would say at a lower cost than an internal cloud. In its most general case, the business value of the hybrid cloud lies in its ability to bridge the gap between baseline computing and peak computing. |
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| The Cloud Cannot Ignore Geopolitics |
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| March 02 2010 |
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| Cloud computing is an operational model, not a technology: the critical fact underpins so many of the challenges and advantages that cloud computing models place upon distributed applications. In Cloud Computing, "virtual" geography and "physical" geography are both extremely important, and it is up to us to keep the two aligned. There are many reasons to consider "location" and "borders" in cloud computing. Unfortunately, how governments perceive those concepts versus how networks do can be at odds. |
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| Graduating Cloud to the Enterprise: Infrastructure-as-a-Service |
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| January 20 2010 |
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| Companies large and small added Cloud Computing to their IT agenda in the last year. After making early inroads into enterprise, Cloud providers are asked to answer some tough questions. Here is an analysis of the key hurdles they are confronted with. |
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| Debunking the No Such Thing as a Private Cloud Myth |
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| January 19 2010 |
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| The Private Cloud Myth is misguided because it assumes that all cloud computing is a financial model rather than a technology or service model. Providing a public utility service requires cloud computing, but cloud computing does not have to be delivered with a predetermined financial model. |
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| Cloud Computing's Green Paradox |
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| January 07 2010 |
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| The increased efficiency of the hardware components in most cloud data centers and the increased utilization of these components mean that we are almost certainly doing more work per unit of energy consumed than before. However, how do we know the actual savings to the environment until its actually measured. |
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| Cloud Computing and the Canadian Environment |
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| October 22 2009 |
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| Cloud Computing and the Canadian Environment |
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Prioritized Concerns for Building Cloud Solutions  |
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| October 01 2009 |
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| The following paper details some of the areas necessary for successful building and adoption of cloud infrastructure today. In many cases, they are imperatives that seem yet to be solved. Central and obvious to cloud environments are the APIs that control the environments, the tools built to support them, and the virtualization, billing, and utility infrastructure. There are many clouds. Clouds should and can talk to other clouds either via orchestration above the cloud or (eventually) by native capability within the cloud. But there are several aspects that are not so obvious. Security, resource management, protocols, and integration between traditional IT environments and a new “cloud-like” model must integrate together. |
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Trends in Electrical Efficiency in Computer Performance |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. This research is on the long term trends in the electrical efficiency of computation, which implies that mobile devices will rapidly become much more power-efficient and ubiquitous. The energy efficiency of computation has doubled about every 1.6 years since 1945 with remarkable consistancy - a trend that has important implications for mobile computing technologies. |
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The Energy and Climate Change Impacts of Different Music Delivery Methods |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. This research compares the energy and CO2 emissions associated with downloading music to those from buying a physical CD, concluding that downloading music yields 40-80% reductions compared to buying a CD. These findings demonstrate one concrete example of effectively using technology for improved environmental outcomes, i e, the benefits of dematerialization using IT. |
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Server Energy Efficiency Implications on Large Scale Datacenters |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. Trends in servers are pushing cloud computing providers and in-house data center operators to restructure their organizations, eliminate misplaced incentives, increase capital utilization, and change the ways they specify and purchase equipment. |
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| Cloudscaling on Cloud Networking and Arista |
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| May 03 2011 |
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| The Founder of Cloudscaling discusses Arista Networks and the philosophy behind building cloud networking. |
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| Reality & The Cloud |
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| October 27 2010 |
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| Building on massive regional broadband and access initiatives, individuals and organizations now have ample opportunities to access a continuously growing variety of online services that are based on cloud computing. |
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| An Introduction to Joyent |
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| June 22 2010 |
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| The Founder and CEO of Joyent, David Young, gives an overview of how the Infrastructure as a Service company got started. He discusses their vision, their focus on providing great customer service, and more. |
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| Is Cloud Computing as we know it broken? |
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| June 22 2010 |
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| The Founder & CEO at Joyent, David Young, challenges the status quo in cloud computing, asking whether customers really want to put the same old OS in the cloud, or whether they'd prefer not to worry about the OS at all and simply focus on making their applications more performant and scalable. David illustrates how Joyent's Smart Computing fixes what's broken in cloud computing and exceeds customers' needs for performance, scalability, security and economy. |
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| An Interview with Joyent’s CTO and Founder |
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| June 04 2010 |
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| Dell Cloud evangelist, Barton George, interviews Joyent CTO and Founder, Jason Hoffman. He discusses how they got the idea for Joyent, what they do, how they are partnering with Dell and what the interesting areas to tackle are in cloud computing over the next few years. |
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| Explaining Hybrid Clouds |
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| December 08 2009 |
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| There is a great depate in the computing industry over the definition of cloud computing and if there is such a thing as a hybrid cloud strategy. The VP of Strategic Solutions at AT&T, Joe Weinman, has completed statistical research on this matter and explains a hybrid cloud. |
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| How Green is Cloud Computing? |
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| September 17 2009 |
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| How Green is Cloud Computing? |
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| Cloud Tales: How Companies Harness the Power of Cloud Optimized Delivery |
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| August 06 2009 |
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| Cloud Tales: Learn How Companies are Harnessing the Power of Cloud Optimized Delivery |
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| Hybrid Hosting in the Cloud |
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| May 15 2009 |
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| Hybrid Hosting in the Cloud |
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| The Pathway to Cloud Services |
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| May 11 2009 |
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| The SVP & CTO of Cisco, Padmasree Warrior, gives on overview of the Cisco Unified Service Delivery which combines the power of the data center with the power of the network to transform service delivery and build the foundation for cloud services. |
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| Joyent Arista Switch Management |
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| July 24 2010 |
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| Joyent, a pioneer in cloud computing, and Arista Networks, the pioneer of 10 GbE cloud networking, are working together to build technology that will enable the automated management of network resources using Joyent cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies are now working together to provide users of Joyent infrastructure built using Arista switches with centralized switch management that will significantly improve the manageability, scalability and security of cloud infrastructure. |
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| Cloud Computing and the Canadian Environment |
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| October 22 2009 |
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| Cloud Computing and the Canadian Environment |
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Prioritized Concerns for Building Cloud Solutions |
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| October 01 2009 |
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| The following paper details some of the areas necessary for successful building and adoption of cloud infrastructure today. In many cases, they are imperatives that seem yet to be solved. Central and obvious to cloud environments are the APIs that control the environments, the tools built to support them, and the virtualization, billing, and utility infrastructure. There are many clouds. Clouds should and can talk to other clouds either via orchestration above the cloud or (eventually) by native capability within the cloud. But there are several aspects that are not so obvious. Security, resource management, protocols, and integration between traditional IT environments and a new “cloud-like” model must integrate together. |
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Trends in Electrical Efficiency in Computer Performance |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. This research is on the long term trends in the electrical efficiency of computation, which implies that mobile devices will rapidly become much more power-efficient and ubiquitous. The energy efficiency of computation has doubled about every 1.6 years since 1945 with remarkable consistancy - a trend that has important implications for mobile computing technologies. |
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The Energy and Climate Change Impacts of Different Music Delivery Methods |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. This research compares the energy and CO2 emissions associated with downloading music to those from buying a physical CD, concluding that downloading music yields 40-80% reductions compared to buying a CD. These findings demonstrate one concrete example of effectively using technology for improved environmental outcomes, i e, the benefits of dematerialization using IT. |
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Server Energy Efficiency Implications on Large Scale Datacenters |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. Trends in servers are pushing cloud computing providers and in-house data center operators to restructure their organizations, eliminate misplaced incentives, increase capital utilization, and change the ways they specify and purchase equipment. |
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| Scaling Your Internet Business |
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| May 15 2009 |
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| This document describes how to grow a web-based Internet business with a focus on using GoGrid cloud computing infrastructure to achieve maximum scale. It provides high level descriptions of what scalability is, how web applications scale, how cloud computing helps, and why GoGrid is uniquely positioned to help businesses succeed. |
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Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the U.S. and the World |
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| February 15 2007 |
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| The amount of electricity used by servers and other Internet infrastructure has become an important issue in recent years as demands for new Internet services (like music downloads, video-on-demand, and Internet telephony) have become more widespread. One of the weaknesses in the literature on data center electricity use has been the lack of credible estimates of the aggregate power used by all servers and associated equipment in the U.S. and the world. The data on the floor area and power densities of data centers are anecdotal and limited by the proprietary nature of such data in most companies. Data on the installed base of servers are also closely held by the companies who track it, and server technology continues to change rapidly, necessitating constant updates to measurements of power used by particular server models. |
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| Cloud computing and Internet use suck energy, emit CO2, says Greenpeace |
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| April 22 2011 - LA Times | ||||
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| How Dirty is your Data |
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| April 22 2011 - Greenpeace | ||||
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| Apple on cloud-computing spree: North Carolina data center starts this spring |
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| February 24 2011 - Interntional Business Times | ||||
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| Cloud Computing Gets a $520 Million Boost from GE |
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| January 13 2011 - Fast Company | ||||
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| The bumpy road to private clouds |
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| December 20 2010 - ComputerWorld | ||||
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| Researchers Agree: Cloud Computing Is Greenest Choice |
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| December 15 2010 - Hot Hardware | ||||
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| Cloud Computing Will Save Energy? Not So Simple |
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| December 09 2010 - Reuters | ||||
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| Cloud computing projected to cut data center energy use over next decade |
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| December 06 2010 - SmartPlanet | ||||
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| Cloud Computing to Reduce Global Data Center Energy Expenditures by 38 in 2020 |
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| December 06 2010 - Pike Research | ||||
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| Private cloud discredited, part 1 |
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| November 15 2010 - zdnet.com | ||||
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| The Cloud's Green Advantage |
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| November 15 2010 - Forbes.com | ||||
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| Microsoft claims cloud computing does cut carbon emissions |
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| November 11 2010 - TechWorld | ||||
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| Cloud computing for business uses less energy |
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| November 09 2010 - cnet news | ||||
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| How to Make Cloud Computing Greener |
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| November 09 2010 - Gigaom Pro | ||||
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| New Research Gives Hard Numbers on How Cloud Computing Improves Environment |
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| November 05 2010 - eWeek.com | ||||
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| Thinking of a private cloud? Government gets an expanding choice. |
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| November 02 2010 - Government Computer News | ||||
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| SEATTLE — Five years after unveiling a plan to shift into cloud computing, Microsoft Corp. may finally be making headway. |
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| October 27 2010 - ReadWriteCloud Channel | ||||
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| Exposed 3 bogus myths about the private cloud |
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| October 12 2010 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| Cloud Computing Meets Energy Management |
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| October 07 2010 - Forbes.com | ||||
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