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3tera Cloud Hosting Review

Monday, May 24th, 2010
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Overview:
AppLogic, the industry’s only cloud computing platform, enables infrastructure solutions that adapt to changing needs at the speed of business. Now using AppLogic, IT professionals can: Deploy online applications in minutes instead of weeks, scale on demand and deliver security and business continuity for all applications,be in full control of their cloud environment. Cloudware will be open to all: from data center operators who can add resources, appliance vendors, system integrators, managed service providers, and of course developers. Everyone benefits by being able to combine technologies to deliver a better service to the user.

Features:
The company is initially offering two certification programs, Certified Cloud Operator and Certified Cloud Architect, with plans to introduce other programs in the future. The new cloud computing training and certification programs are accessible to IT professionals who are either evaluating or using the company’s AppLogic cloud computing platform.

Cloud Computing without compromise - cloudware
Cloudware incorporates the fundamental building blocks used in developing today’s most popular applications; storage and computing, software catalog, definition and control, plus how they all relate to each other. More importantly, the architecture is vendor agnostic so that third party vendors, not just 3tera, can participate in the system. The Cloudware architecture supports the most popular operating systems – Linux, Solaris and Windows – and is targeted toward clients who want to explore the extreme scale and flexibility of cloud computing infrastructures quickly and easily.

Summary:
AppLogic (3Tera’s cloud computing platform) is now the driving force behind the SaaS and Cloud computing services of more than forty web hosting service providers around the world. Some of the companies that 3Tera’s AppLogic assists are: ENKI Consulting, BirdHosting.com, Cleargrid, Contegix, Red Peak Solutions, DNS Europe, Cloudaccess.net, KDDI, Agathon Group,Layered Technologies,Cari.net, Radixcloud, Kualo, Right Servers,Xseed, ScaleUp Technologies and more.

AppLogic, the industry’s turn-key cloud computing platform, enables infrastructure solutions that adapt to changing needs at the speed of business. Now using AppLogic, IT professionals can:

  • deploy online applications in minutes instead of weeks,
  • scale on demand and deliver security and business continuity for all applications,
  • be in full control of their cloud environment.

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Reliability and Uptime:
Promising 100% uptime.  They keep everything public so you can see about everything that has happened in the past and what they have done to fix it.  It’s on Eblogger so even if they go down it won’t.

Customer Support:
Support hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 6:00pm Pacific Time (GMT-0800)

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Identity Management goes into Beta for Novell

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Novell has opened up the beta for the next iteration of its authentication middleware, Identity Manager 4.  This all went down because of the BrainShare EMEA user and partner conference in Amsterdam last week.

Novell announced that it wants to build and manage internal cloudy infrastructure as well as public clouds as well as make security and access controls to software stacks portable, like virtual machines are today (to a certain degree).

The Standard Edition of Novells new product will scale across larger numbers of users than IDM 3.6, and will also include prepackaged integration with Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software, SAP ERP suites, and cloudy applications such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps. IDM 4 does not yet talk to and manage infrastructure clouds like Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud hosting.

This being said, Dipto Chakravarty the general manager of the Cloud Security business unit at Novell and vice president of worldwide engineering for the unit, did not elaborate on when IDM4 might do access control for popular public clouds, but did say that Novell was working on a cloud security service to provide access control and single sign-on for cloud hosting providers.  Novell is charging a bit more for the Standard Edition of IDM 4 than it did for IDM 3.6: $30 per seat, up from $25.

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Green Cloud Computing

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Green Cloud Servers will be the way of the future. Solar, Wind and Cow Manure Energy Power Tomorrow`s Data Centers. As IT organizations move infrastructure to the cloud and data centers suck up more power, the search is on for affordable sources of renewable energy.

This may not seem like a big problems but with all the problems with BP in the Gulf of Mexico, the pressure may be on as never before. Can solar energy, wind turbines, geothermal power or even cow manure replace traditional power sources for powering cloud hosting data centers? The answer is a qualified yes.

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Companies including Google, Intel, HP, and AMD are working on it as we speak. As of right now, we know that it is much more of a cost using to those types of power sources to power green cloud data centers.

Google’s business is run on data centers so it’s no surprise this company’s philanthropic arm is looking to fund renewable and affordable energy sources. It’s efforts include investments in companies like eSolar , a solar thermal power start up, a few enhanced geothermal power start ups, and even a plan to look at ocean water for power and cooling of data centers Google sums up its efforts to find affordable renewable energy here.

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What do you think?  Are the following types of Green cloud computing possible?

  • Solar Cloud Hosting
  • Wind Cloud Hosting
  • Cow Manure Energy Cloud Hosting
  • Thermal Cloud Hosting

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