Posts Tagged ‘cloud servers’

Terremark Cloud Banners Everywhere

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

I’m pretty sure that you have noticed all the Terremark cloud hosting banners strung across the internet.  Well, if you haven’t… I have.  So I decided to click on it and give Terremark another “Terremark Cloud Hosting Review” to say the least.

Things I like about Terremark cloud hosting:

Terremark vCloud Express Amazon EC2
VMware Based
Compatible Operating Systems More than 450 Less than 10
8-way, 16GB Virtual Machines
Windows 2008 & SQL 2008
Hardware Load Balancing
100% Fiber Attached Persistent Storage

vCloud Express Pricing Overview

The following table shows the billing resources available for vCloud Express.

Resource Price
Servers * See server pricing matrix below
System Storage $0.25/month per GB (billed with virtual machine)
Additional Storage $0.25/month per GB
Public IP Addresses $0.01/hour per IP
Internet Services $0.01/hour per service
Internet Bandwidth $0.17 per transferred GB
Software Subscription * See software subscription matrix below
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Billion Dollar Cloud Data Center

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Yes, you heard that correct.  There is a billion dollar cloud data center being built right now!  And this huge data center should be completed by the end of the year according to Peter Oppenheimer.

During Apple’s Q3 2010 earnings call, CFO Peter Oppenheimer fielded a question about the massive data center Apple is currently building in Maiden, North Carolina. The reporter wanted to know how it was coming, and if there were any updates? “It’s on-schedule,” Oppenheimer quickly said. “We expect it completed by the end of the calendar year,” he continued, noting that it should be fully operational after that.

In a statement about the cloud server facility Apple said: “The facility will provide Apple with a major East Coast infrastructure hub to support its iTune music store and iPhone app store.” But again,this thing is something like 500,000 square feet. That’s about five times the size of Apple’s other regional data centers. Instead, might this be the central hub of Apple’s often-rumored iTunes-in-the-cloud offering?

This Apple cloud data center is huge.  They have said it’s mainly for mobleme but I’m not buying it.  Look at how massive it is in comparison with other data centers across the world.  Do you think this will be the central hub for Apple cloud computing?  Here is a video of the massive rumored Apple cloud data center.

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OpenStack Is Pretty Awesome

Monday, July 19th, 2010

OpenStack is the full software behind several Cloud Servers and Cloud Files offerings. The software, which will be licensed under Apache 2, will be available to competing hosting companies, enterprises and governments to implement.  I will say that it’s hard to beat the credibility of the platform being run by a top five IaaS provider.

Regular hosting companies should be jumping on this because there are strong similarities between your business and Rackspace and thus the solution should be relatively applicable. It’s also potentially more appealing from a profit point of view than Microsoft Windows Azure platform appliance or vCloud as there’s no one you have to share the revenue with. There will no doubt be some skepticism by hosters that Rackspace is holding back something that will help them maintain their advantage.

My prediction is that OpenStack cloud server is that they will be a leader here in the next 6 months!

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