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Cloud Computing

IBM Stabs at Amazon Cloud

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IBM Stabs at Amazon Cloud

"Whose cloud powers 270,000 more websites than Amazon?" IBM asks in a recent advert nestled within the Wall Street Journal. Apparently the answer is no other than IBM. But is Big Blue really bigger than the seemingly unbeatable Amazon?

"IBM cloud offerings also support 30% more of the most popular websites than anyone else in the world," the ad continues to claim. 

But is the SoftLayer-powered IBM cloud truly larger than Amazon's AWS? According to Gartner the short answer is "yes." The long answer? SoftLayer underpins a number of shared hosting providers, such as GoDaddy and HostGator. Such hosts might not count as "cloud," but their numerous, small sites make up for sheer volume on the "long tail" of the market. 

Thus, if one is to use the Big Blue yardstick GoDaddy alone hosts more sites than Amazon and SoftLayer combined, with 431087 sites compared to the 358532 on SoftLayer servers and 73821 on Amazon.  Read more...

Calxeda Intros Fabric-Based Cloud Platform

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Calxeda Intros Fabric-Based Cloud Platform

Server-class processor maker Calxeda launches the EnergyCore ECX-2000-- an ARM Cortex-A15-based SoC with integrated Calxeda Fleet Fabric, 10Gb ethernet and standard I/O controllers.

The chip is designed for I/O-intensive applications such as distributed storage, cloud-based gaming services,media streaming and throughput-oriented private clouds, with up to x2 the performance, x4 the memory capacity and x3 the memory bandwidth of previous ARM-based servers from the company.

Solution builders already supporting the SoC include HP, Aaeon, Boston and Penguin Computing.

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The AWS-Compatible Private Cloud

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The AWS-Compatible Private Cloud

Eucalyptus Systems launches Eucalyptus 3.4-- the latest version of the private cloud software described as a means for customers to move entirely from AWS to own facilities.

Supposedly allowing organisations to "reduce cloud spend, increase agility and regain control over cloud performance, scale and security," Eucalyptus 3.4 features include image migration and management, a hybrid cloud user console, identity and access management (IAM) roles, enhanced availability and "warm upgrades" for the disruption-free private cloud upgrades.

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Rackspace Takes on PaaS With "Solum"

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Rackspace Takes on PaaS With

OpenStack code contributor Rackspace launches another project making use of the platform-- "Project Solum," a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering for the OpenStack platform.

Announced by Rackspace architect Adrian Otto, Solum will see Rackspace join eBay, RedHat, Ubuntu, dotCloud, Cloudsoft and Cumologic in an open source project. The developers hope Solum will allow users to leverage existing OpenStack clouds, allowing one to make use of running OpenStack services instead of overlapping, vendor-specific solutions.

Solum is currently in its very early days (in pre-version 0.1, to be specific), but plans are for it providing integrated support for Git, CI/CD and IDEs, with simplified lifecycle management across developer, test and production environments via OpenStack plugin Heat.

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Cisco: Cloud Will Grow Even Bigger

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Cisco: Cloud Will Grow Even Bigger

The third annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012-2017) reports cloud traffic is set to explode-- growing at a 35% CAGR from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017. 

Meanwhile overall global data centre traffic should grow with a 25% CAGR during the same period to reach 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017. 

How big is a zettabyte? A zettabyte is the second-to-largest term used in data storage quantification (the largest is the yottabyte) and amounts to a billion terabytes. As for 7.7 zettabytes, Cisco says that mount is equivalent to 107 hours of streaming music, 19 trillion hours of business webconferencing and 8 trillion hours of HD video streaming. 

Fuelling around 17% of data centre traffic are end users accessing clouds for web surfing, video streaming, collaboration and connected devices-- in other words the connections of people, data, processes and things making the so-called "Internet of Everything." Read more...

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