HPC in the Cloud: Blogs & Commentary on Enterprise IT

Blogs & Commentary

Is a Single Vendor Solution the Right Approach to Cloud?
Post Date: September 7, 2010 @ 9:15AM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

HP is adopting cloud technologies from the solution perspective that puts the work back on technology as a whole. I’ve long thought that application design makes virtualization and other technologies easier to manage, and that is not even taking into account availability requirements such as disaster recovery.

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Are RTOs Forgotten With Data Protection in the Cloud?
Post Date: August 31, 2010 @ 4:56PM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Regardless of how the cost argument is defended, one area that emerges in discussions about cloud-based data protection is the recovery time objective or RTO. The root of this discovery is that traditional storage options, even the venerable tape media category, have fast transfer rates. The hard question is do we put a price on an RTO?

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Miha Ahronovitz
Virtualization is Not Cloud...But Does Make It Shine
Post Date: August 31, 2010 @ 4:29PM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

Virtualization does not a cloud make, but it does certainly aid with the advancement and wider adoption of cloud computing across the business and research spectrum. Initially emerging as a business decision, virtualization has now developed a life of its own both within and independent of the cloud model.

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Steve Campbell
In the Flesh? Reflections from the Flash Memory Summit
Post Date: August 31, 2010 @ 11:33AM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

SSDs are worth it if they are dedicated to data that's read frequently, such as information in a database or popular multimedia content. However, what's most popular can change over time, and not all the data in a particular LUN (logical unit number) may qualify.

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Nicole Hemsoth
X-Force Warns Earth’s Citizens of Imminent Threat
Post Date: August 25, 2010 @ 11:14AM, Eastern Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud

IBM X-Force has united to deliver a stern message to cloud-using citizens that their workloads might not be safe given a swift uptick in threats from hypervisor attacks and inappropriate application-specific cloud security strategies.

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Feature Articles

Cloud Computing: Improving Enterprise IT Efficiency and Agility

Cloud computing may be considered a new phenomenon in IT, but, in many ways, it is an evolution propelled by new IT delivery models and enabling technologies. Initially, driven by cost concerns, enterprises turned to collocation as a more efficient IT delivery model. The next logical step, managed hosting, allowed enterprises to leverage the management expertise – and efficiencies – of service providers.
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Inching Closer to a New Era for Interoperability Standards

Interoperability remains a critical issue for groups advocating that users and vendors alike require a healthy, open ecosystem to drive greater adoption rates but the standardization for portability has been slow in coming. Groups like the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) are working together with other standards bodies to create a better cloud as the organization's president discusses during an interview following news of OVF standardization--a first step for workload portability standards.
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On Par for 2 Billion: 3PAR Discusses Cloud Strategy

Storage vendor 3PAR has been at the heart of an intense bidding war between HP and Dell due to its unique refinements and developments in virtualized storage platform concepts. Thin provisioning and a focus on the needs of large-scale enterprises and cloud providers have catapulted the company into the public eye but as 3PAR's Craig Nunes discusses with HPC in the Cloud, the cloud strategy has been consistent since 1999--even if the world is just taking notice now.
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Around the Web

Oracle Placing GridEngine on New Track

Sep 03 | The Sun GridEngine, now the Oracle GridEngine has been a key open source staple for several HPC users for years. As Oracle takes a closer look at the product's potential for cloud and other uses, the future of its status as open source has been put into serious question. Read more...

What CERN Can Teach Enterprises About Computing, Collaboration

Sep 02 | A new research project from the London School of Economics and HfS is examining the lessons that enterprise can learn from the collaborative, distributed CERN computing (and cultural) environment. Read more...

Hybrid Workflow Model at Heart of Tornado Research

Sep 02 | The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms undertook a hybrid computing project called the “Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery II” (LEAD II) with the help of the Big Red cluster and Microsoft’s Azure to better predict tornado conditions and to aid in the advancement of VORTEX2 goals. Read more...

Application Flexibility and the New Enterprise Architecture

Aug 31 | Application delivery strategies must be shaped with flexibility in mind as the number of platforms delivering core applications is bound to change with time. Since a greater number of devices and platforms are entering the infrastructure mix, those who do not adapt quickly face being locked into strategies that do not mesh well with new developments. Read more...

A Maturation Stage for Storage Virtualization

Aug 27 | Storage virtualization has been gaining momentum as it moves from concept to practice but some suggest the offerings in this realm have not matured sufficiently and require a longer maturation process before wider adoption occurs. Read more...

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