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Aug 20, 2008

Hyperic Focuses X-Ray Vision on Google

In June, Hyperic introduced CloudStatus, a free hosted service that provides an independent, graphical dashboard view into the “general health” of Amazon Web Services. Today, just a couple weeks after a problem at the Google server farm left some users scratching their heads, Hyperic is announcing CloudStatus monitoring of Google App Engine. Read more...

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How the Other Half Does Online Bookselling

As shocking as it might seem, there is more than one place to go for your online book-buying needs. AbeBooks.com, an online marketplace for new and used books, including rare and collector’s editions, is utilizing Oracle’s Coherence data grid solution in order to improve the online shopping experience, as well as to ease backend operations.
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Your Datacenter Makeover: Have Someone Else Do It

A rethinking and overhauling of infrastructure is the kind of massive task where someone else doing it makes the most sense, especially with the cost of building, powering, and cooling datacenters rising at record rates. DataSynapse and Adaptivity propose they can do it better than most.
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Cloud Computing, Virtualization 2.0 Among NGDC Highlights

Not surprisingly, cloud computing was a hot topic at last week's Next Generation Data Center conference, with sessions and keynotes alike focusing on the up-and-coming paradigm (note: Merrill Lynch already is doing it). However, virtualization -- in all its glory -- was an equally hot topic, including in a panel discussion contemplating what its second generation will look like.
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Adios, App Servers?

Unless you're in the business of selling servers or electricity, Pivot3's Serverless Computing probably is good news. If the technology delivers as promised, users will benefit from lower hardware costs, less energy consumption, and less rack space than a traditional approach would require. The technology creates virtual servers on the storage array, so the storage node also is a compute node.
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Will Cloud Computing Transform IT?

8/19/08 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Cloud computing, utility computing, Web 3.0 and grid computing are all jargon to describe a simple concept: Access to seemingly limitless computing power and storage space via the Internet. Read more...

Virtual Appliances Cause Software License Confusion

8/19/08 | CIO | Licensing has been an issue in virtualization ever since virtual servers began multiplying the number of operating systems and applications that could run on physical servers. Read more...

Report Warns of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' in Real-Time Analytics

8/19/08 | Intelligent Enterprise | A new Forrester Research report says that the data warehouse can either be a key enabler or a painful bottleneck in the delivery of urgent analytics to decision makers. Read more...

Intel's Insides

8/18/08 | Forbes | Diane Bryant, chief information officer at Intel, shares how grid computing has been a successful component of Intel's datacenter strategy. Read more...

How to Create a Business-Boosting Virtualization Plan

8/18/08 | Network World | Tony Bishop, CEO of start-up IT consultancy Adaptivity and virtualization go-to guy, explains how to shift from the tactical to the strategic. Read more...

Backup to the Compute Cloud

8/18/08 | SearchSOA.com | The basic idea is that a user can get practically any computing task done with minimum investment in hardware or software by contracting with a service offered in the "cloud." Read more...

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Raising the Bar for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing

8/15/08 | Aster Data | How can you meet the high-availability challenge of large-scale data warehousing? Is the answer to increase system capacity (vertical scaling) or add more servers (horizontal scaling)? Or, is there a better way? Learn the pros and cons of those approaches and how a cluster-based data analytics platform provides the highest level of price/performance and linear scalability.

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The Essence of 'On-Demand'
Cloud Hype on the Hype Cycle
Now, I promise this publication is not all about cloud computing, but it’s just too interesting, too hyped and too in the news not to play a relatively big role for the foreseeable future. Take, for example, Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, which places cloud computing on the Technology Trigger zone, rapidly approaching the Peak of Inflated Expectations.
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