Amazon.com’s Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large is a 64-bit platform with 23GB of memory, 1,690GB of instance storage, and 10Gbps of Ethernet I/O performance composed of 33.5 Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute units. The default usage limit for the Cluster Compute instance type is eight instances, or 64 cores, although customers can request more, the company says.
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Amazon.com’s High-End Computing
Friday, July 16th, 2010Microsoft’s Azure Now in Rackspace
Friday, July 16th, 2010Cloud Hosting giant Rackspace could be among the first to deliver private versions of Microsoft’s Azure cloud, free of Redmond’s control. Rackspace CTO John Engates said: “I think it’s a great idea to allow private versions of Azure because realistically, Microsoft can’t run all the world’s IT in its own data centers.” He added: “If and when we get strong demand for Azure in our datacenter, we’ll certainly consider offering it.”
Microsoft earlier this week announced the Windows Azure Platform Appliance containing Windows Azure compute and SQL Azure storage. The service provider believes it’s got the experience in hosting and .NET to make Azure usable and to help ease customers concerns over the newness of the architecture – most, for example, won’t even know what SQL Azure is or be willing to commit at this stage.
We’ll see if the Microsoft Azure platform will end up in Rackspace data centers. For now, it’s not in there. I’m betting that in the next 3 months Microsoft Azure and Rackspace will be partners in this new venture. Lew Moorman, Rackspace’s president for cloud and chief strategy officer, said: “It’s like house hunting and buying the house and every single element in it. You can’t customize or do your own thing, and that’s a big commitment for people… In time we could host it, but people are nervous about giving everything to Microsoft.”
WPC 2010 Updates for Cloud Hosting Providers
Thursday, July 15th, 2010WPC 2010 Updates for Cloud Hosting Providers. Microsoft re-newed its commitment to helping cloud service providers deliver cloud services through its software, services and programs, which enable them to become trusted advisers and full-service IT providers to businesses.
Highlighted so far has been this statement; “Microsoft sees service providers becoming more important as the cloud becomes more predominant,” Microsoft communications sector worldwide hosting general manager John Zanni said in a statement. “Given their experience in deploying and selling infrastructure and software as a service, businesses will depend on them for IT as a service. The next step for service providers is to look beyond their current hosted offerings to become full-service IT providers and trusted advisors to businesses.”
They have been talking a lot about how managed hosting provider nGenX was able to work with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit (Microsoft cloud hosting software) and NetApp to include enterprise-class disaster recovery in its automated cloud service, Guardian GeoCloud. “A major concern of cloud computing among our customers is reliability, as downtime or lost data translates to lost revenue, a damaged reputation and halted productivity,” said Robert A. Bye, executive vice president at nGenX. “By integrating disaster recovery into Guardian GeoCloud, we are able to achieve the reliability that our customers demand, providing replication and failover of their virtualized environments to a remote datacenter. Moreover, our customers now have access to a level of disaster recovery and security traditionally only available to large enterprises, at a fraction of the cost.”
