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[Untitled] FAQ: Cloud computing, demystified | Virtualization Focus: Like public clouds, delivery of private cloud services would typically be done through a Web interface with self-service and chargeback attributes. "Private clouds give you many of the benefits of cloud computing, but it's privately owned and managed, the access may be limited to your own enterprise or a section of your value chain," Kloeckner says.

[Troy Angrignon: Adventure Capitalist] Recommended Reading 2: In my conversations with the various cloud vendors, we have heard of Monte Carlo simulations, aeronatic and hydrodynamic modelling, and of course animation rendering - all very traditional HPC/grid computing types of use cases.

[InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff] InfoQ: SpringSource Acquires Hyperic: By acquiring Hyperic's IP, SpringSource can further integrate the two product sets, although Soltero stated that the Hyperic team will be pursuing the same management agenda as when they were an independent company. He made the point that restricting a monitoring system to just SpringSource's technologies would reduce its competitiveness when enterprise applications are frequently based on a mixed technology stack.

[GoGrid Blog] “10 Obstacles to Cloud Computing” by UC Berkeley & How GoGrid ...: , when we at GoGrid designed our business model, we kept scenarios like this in mind and came up with an easy solution: make all inbound data transfers free. This way, GoGrid users can upload large amounts of data to their cloudcenter, move that data around within the private network therein, put some on Cloud Storage should they desire, analyze to their hearts content and then download the summary or result sets (typically much smaller in file size than the data going in).

[VentureBeat] New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside down ...: OnLive’s technology has the potential to move beyond games to the broader level that Gilder was talking about. It could eventually sweep through all forms of entertainment and applications, providing the missing link in helping the Internet take over our living rooms.

[I, Cringely] I, Cringely » Blog Archive » The Bentonville Mafia - Cringely on ...: Microsoft creates the platform, runs the infrastructure, but the ISVs/advertising agencies actually provide the campaign design, management and analysis services and the customer hand holding, much like Dell or HP might do for server products. Just like Azure will emerge as a platform with APIs for developers of grid based software and service offerings Microsoft’s advertising platform will be just a development and infrastructure platform for agencies to market their customers products in the most effective manner online(and in many other emerging advertising media that will be digitized) and large publishers to monetize their content, whether it’s websites, television, in-game advertising, etc.

[HPCwire: Recent articles featuring high productivity computing] HPCwire: CEI: Turning Data Into Insight: CEI faces the typical threats from open-source software (ParaView, OpenDX, Vis5D, and others) and commercial packages (Tecplot, FieldView, Patran, and others) that every software company faces these days. But they also face threats from a unique competitor: the post-processing software that comes bundled with many of the most popular commercial analysis tools (ANSYS, MSC Nastran, Abaqus and others).

[tecosystems] tecosystems » The Oracle Predicts a Setting Sun: The betting here is that Solaris will continue to be supported, but not as a frontline option, with the possible exception of cloud offerings where the quirks of the operating system are rendered invisible by the platform. Think IBM with AIX, HP with HP-UX, and so on: there is ample precedent for the (successful) continuation of two competing product lines, and as Oracle itself acknowledges above, there’s an awful lot of Oracle running on top of Solaris.

[CNET News - Wireless] Google's Android: It's not just for phones | Crave - CNET: We at TeleSynergy believes that Google, with its GrandCentral and Android play, is uniquely positioned to revolutionize the mobile communication industry with built-in VoIP infrastructure and servers (at home, in the office, and in the cloud) that make Android as the end device and GrandCentral as the portal that allow consumers to freely choose which services and servers they want in their life. When the end users can access a wide range of open source products (mobile phones offered by chip set vendors which leverages the great R&D effort Android has already invested,) open source services (applications built onto Android's platform, fully integrated and working flawlessly with the services from mobile phone operators in the cloud or service rendering servers at home and in the office,) and open source service rendering severs (small home server, the modern-day answering machine, and office phone system that take the place of the expensive ?Class 5?

[Virtualization.com] Nortel Spinoff Blade Network Technologies Aims To Virtualize ...: RackSwitch provides the high-bandwidth communications for IBM iDataPlex in today’s massive scale-out data centers that run I/O-intensive Web 2.0 applications and seek to make the most efficient use of the cloud computing model. Leveraging IBM and BLADE’s common blade server heritage, RackSwitch enables iDataPlex to increase the density networking within a single rack, use significantly less power for networking while maximizing bandwidth available to a single system, employ server-friendly cooling of the networking subsystem and provide 100-percent interoperability with existing network infrastructures.

[Latest News from Open Source Magazine] Twelve Things You Didn't Know About Jetty | Open Source Magazine: and at Mort Bay Consulting Limited in Australia, Greg Wilkins created what was possibly the first Java web application, an issue tracking system served over HTTP from a Java server. It soon became apparent that there was a lot more interest in the HTTP server within the issue tracking application than in the application itself.

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