Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for
deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and
testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of
clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case
studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken’s two years of cloud
computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud
offerings. His technical discussion will cover:
Layers of cloud computing Cost breakdown versus traditional solutions IT
management and development, testing benefits/examples Extreme, fast
scalability at low cost – case study
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Speaker Bio: Dr Thorsten von Eicken is CTO of RightScale. Before joining
RightScale Inc., he was Chief Architect at... (more)
While organizations and IT staff continue to see the many benefits of
implementing virtualization, the challenge of controlling virtual
infrastructures is quickly arising as a top management priority.
Virtualization benefits are offset by issues such as security,
administration, increased costs, compliance and configuration management.
Managing Virtual Machine (VM) sprawl is of growing concern to organizations
as they grow their VM environments. Traditional management tool and security
systems do not work well in this space, and virtualization vendor tools are
more focused on d... (more)
Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are
providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual
machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type
of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the memory, compute,
and storage resources managed by the appliance provider and the complete
software stack managed by the end user. Virtual appliances also allow a
simple transition from internal virtualization clusters to outsourced
providers, enabling capacity spikes to be handled.
This session will ... (more)
Nati Shalom's GigaSpaces Blog
In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure
technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that
when we truly scale our application, and want to benefit from economies of
scale, we're going to end up with scale limitations, not because of technical
issues, but because of the pricing and licensing models.
In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure
technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that
when we truly scale our application, a... (more)
"When coupled with network and storage virtualization, virtual machines offer
sophisticated forms of high availability, disaster recovery, and service
migration across all forms of platforms," says Christine Crandell, Executive
VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Egenera in this Exclusive Q&A with
SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. "When managed together, these new levels of
abstraction will enable true utility computing, ‘cloud' style elastic
compute services, and forms of IT services that are fully driven by business
priorities rather than technical convenience."
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