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Sep 7, 2010

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. Read more...

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Cloud Computing: Improving Enterprise IT Efficiency and Agility

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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Busting the "Cloud in a Box" Myth

The concept of private clouds is gaining traction and due to the buzz, more enterprises are taking a much closer look at the possibility—if they haven’t taken steps to virtualize some or all of their infrastructure already. For those who have not yet made the transition, a lack of understanding of the complex process behind private cloud implementation is at the core of hesitancy, therefore vendors are looking for ways to convince users to fear not, the private cloud is not only within reach—but simple to step into.
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Achieving Ultra High Performance in the Cloud

Companies in competitive domains, such as financial services, create large data repositories containing significant amounts of data collected from daily operations. Using supercomputers to analyze these massive datasets might yield the highest level of performance, but this is prohibitively expensive. Using proprietary, custom-built HPC atop cloud environments is also a viable option--although one that does come with a series of drawbacks that must be mitigated to achieve critical performance levels.
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Oracle Placing GridEngine on New Track

9/3/10 | 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

9/2/10 | 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

9/2/10 | 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

8/31/10 | 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

8/27/10 | 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...

HP Seeks to Boost Cloud Service Automation Capability

8/27/10 | Although it was lost in the chaos of the 3PAR bidding war between, HP announced news that it acquired cloud service automation firm Stratavia to bolster its cloud management offering and further its strategy in the arena. Read more...

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Behind the Cloud
Is a Single Vendor Solution the Right Approach to 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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Behind the Cloud
Are RTOs Forgotten With Data Protection in 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

Behind the Cloud
Virtualization is Not Cloud...But Does Make It Shine
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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Contributors:

Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth is the managing editor of HPC in the Cloud and will discuss a range of overarching issues related to HPC-specific cloud topics in posts. More > >

John Hurley
Principle Investigator and Director for the National Nuclear Security Administration and DOE sponsored Center for Disaster Recovery. More > >

Wolfgang Gentzsch
Advisor to the EU project Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum. More > >