Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Hosting’

Cloud Hosting Storage Software

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Sanbolic announced that it is offering service provider licensing (SPLA) for its software storage solution for cloud hosting environments. Sanbolic’s Melio 2010 adds centralized storage management, improved availability, and dynamic scalability to hosted Windows Cloud computing environments, and integrates easily with Windows Server Hyper-V virtualization and System Center Management components.

Customers can now dynamically assign and manage shared storage resources in a cloud storage environment, including metering storage performance based on the service level purchased by the end customer. Sanbolic software can be used with any industry standard SAN storage.

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AWS Launches Cluster Compute EC2 Instances

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Amazon Launches Cluster Compute EC2 Instances For High Performance Applications.  This helps with the availability of Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, which is a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding applications.

The cloud feature that I love the most is that clients can group “Cluster Compute Instances” into clusters which allows applications on servers to get the low-latency network performance required for tightly coupled, node-to-node communication.  There have been several times where I have been unable to do this on other cloud platforms due to cloud server limitations.

This launch represents Amazon’s continued push to make EC2 stronger and more scalable.  Besides offering customers more features, Amazon may also be prepping for a new competitor. Rumor has it that Google may be launching an EC2 competitor.

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Aurora Cloud Server

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Microsoft has announced details of the next version of Small Business Server (SBS) – actually, make that two versions. Codename “Aurora” by contrast is a new thing, and designed as a gateway to cloud services as well as managing the local network, and is aimed at businesses with five to 25 users. Both versions will be released as public betas by the end of August.

SBS 7.0 is an update of what we have seen before, a bundle of core applications including Exchange 2010, SharePoint, and System Update Services, tuned to run on a single Server 2008 R2 box.

“You can see this whole platform exploding,” Leworthy said.

As so often with Microsoft, it is conflicted about this cloud thing. Towards the end of our briefing, Leworthy spouted the party line. “For organizations with existing SBS infrastructures, our recommendation to them is to look at SBS 7.0.”

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