Archive for August, 2010

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon EC2

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

“Customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) of all sizes have the ability to run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon EC2, paying only their operating hours” was announced by Novell in a press release on Aug 18.

Amazon EC2 cloud hosting customers get maintenance subscriptions directly on Amazon EC2 without having to sign in advance a separate license agreement. With this program, SUSE Cloud’service providers’c an also optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offering technical support from Novell or their own support services strengthened by the expertise of Novell.

“Over the next several years, IDC expects that enterprises will deploy a mix of physical, virtual and cloud computing resources,” said Mary Johnston Turner, research director for Enterprise Systems Management Software at IDC. “To make the most effective use possible of this dynamic and heterogeneous infrastructure environment, IT teams will need to shift to a more policy-based, automated approach for managing the building, provisioning, migration, monitoring, measuring and securing of corporate workloads. Intelligent workload management is an emerging market concept that addresses this complex set of needs by integrating a number of important technologies.”

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Oracle Cloud Hosting

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Oracle has played a huge role in making Grid Computing, better know as cloud computing relevant to enterprises with ground breaking products such as Oracle Real Applications Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, and Storage Grid.

Oracle has brought Grid Computing to middleware with the Application Grid approach to infrastructure. These products/technologies make the enterprise IT infrastructure elastic so that it can grow incrementally without any theoretical upper limit, as well as provide the flexibility to move resources around in order to meet dynamic business priorities.

Companies that offer Oracle Cloud Servers:

  • Amazon EC2
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Terremark Cloud Hosting
  • Connectria Cloud Hosting
  • OpSource Cloud Servers
  • StrataScale

You know, I’m a big fan of the custom application. Something built from the ground up to meet the end user’s needs. That’s why I love ApEx so much, it makes making such applications so much easier than before.  I would not say I’m against SaaS. If you have a concept that’s generic enough, and a web based platform works well for it, then by all means go for it. I just hate ending up with bloatware of which I only use 10 or 20 percent of the features.

As for the cloud, I would imagine it would really contribute to the flattening effect that was the subject of the book The World is Flat. It would really empower the small to mid-size business that can not afford the IT Infrastructure necessary to meet all their needs.

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Flix Cloud Announcement

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Flix Cloud End-of-Service Announcement

Flix Cloud will stop accepting new Flix Cloud customers on August 20, 2010. To allow for a smooth transition to another service, Flix Cloud will continue to provide the Flix Cloud service to existing customers until November 15, 2010.

Here’s what Google wrote on the Flix Cloud home page:

We’ve made arrangements with Zencoder, our Flix Cloud partner, to help Flix Cloud customers move to the Zencoder cloud encoding service if they so choose. The Zencoder team has created a very impressive service that offers many improvements over Flix Cloud, including two-pass H.264 encoding, faster queues, audio-only encoding, and support for the new open WebM video format. For more information, see the Zencoder Flix Cloud transition page or log in to your dashboard.

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