HPC in the Cloud: Standards

SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:06:35 -0400

Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.

ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

New document provides clear guidance on achieving interoperability of various hypervisor platforms and virtual machines based on well-defined enterprise requirements.

Dell Cloud Clinical Archive Hits 6 Billion

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:16:42 -0400

Medical imaging data explodes into the cloud - 6 billion images alone in Dell's Archive.

Crossing Borders in the Cloud

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:43:44 -0400

Cloud computing has made the exchange of information between financial companies and the European community complicated.

Dell Proposes Software-Defined Networking Working Committee in OMG

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:55:18 -0400

OMG announced that Dell has proposed a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) standardization working committee.

IBM to Base Cloud Services and Software Open Standards

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500

IBM announced that its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.

New DMTF Chapter to Promote Cloud Management in China

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:45:36 -0500

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) announced it has established a Chapter in China to provide support for its growing international efforts and to drive adoption of DMTF standards in the Chinese marketplace.

The Open Cloud: Management Standards Achieve Interoperability

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:49:19 -0500

IT managers around the globe are adopting cloud computing technologies to deliver higher quality services while lowering costs and improving efficiencies. While there have been significant gains, developing cloud standards that promote interoperability is a crucial next step. This article details the benefits of such standards and looks at how they are being enabled.

DMTF Releases Revised OVF 2.0

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:37:37 -0500

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) announced the release of version 2.0 of its Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard.

NJVC Cloudcuity Suite Exceeds New NIST Standards

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:04:39 -0500

NJVC's Cloudcuity suite of offerings meets or exceeds the requirements as outlined in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cloud Computing Standards.

Microsoft Dynamics Helps US Meet 'Cloud First' Mandate

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:41:37 -0500

Layered Technologies and Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Dynamics Government Cloud business solutions, a FISMA-compliant cloud application platform on which federal agencies can deploy mission-critical solutions.

Amazon EC2 Versus the Competition

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

New report compares Amazon EC2 with nine other IaaS providers on a range of performance and stability metrics.

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 Becomes OASIS Standard

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:53:02 -0400

Members of the OASIS international open standards consortium have approved version 1.0 of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) as an OASIS Standard.

SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface Specification Earns ISO/IEC Designation as an International Standard

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:15:22 -0400

The Storage Networking Industry Association announced that its Cloud Data Management Interface specification has been designated an International Standard (IS) by the Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1).

International Cloud Symposium to Focus on Security

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:12:25 -0400

This year's International Cloud Symposium will focus on public cloud security.

VMware Announces Compliance Reference Architectures

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:26:25 -0400

New VMware Compliance Reference Architectures to help customers and partners build and deploy cloud infrastructures that meet a variety of compliance standards.

University of Colorado Receives Award for Publication on Cloud Standardization

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:19:44 -0400

The University of Colorado has received the first award from the ICE-IEEE challenge.

Rackspace Introduces OpenStack Certification Program

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:15:48 -0400

Rackspace has announced the introduction of an OpenStack certification program.

HPC, Clouds & Big Data Converge at ISC Cloud 2012 - Part One

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The last week of September, ISC Cloud had its third annual event in Mannheim, Germany, organized by Uber Cloud Experiment leader Wolfgang Gentzsch. The broad-ranging yet ambitiously-dense program attracted a nice balance of users and technology enablers from research and industry.

VENUS-C Project Becomes Featured Initiative in European Digital Agenda

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:13:40 -0400

VENUS-C announced their two year project to develop interoperable offerings has been adopted in the European Digital Agenda.

Globus and Grid: Blazing Trails for Future Discovery

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:07:27 -0400

As participants from around the world make their way to Prague for the EGI Technical Forum, grid-enabled tools continue to facilitate global collaboration. Grid computing provides the backbone for a wide range of research, all the way from basic science to once-in-a-lifetime breakthroughs, like the recent achievements surrounding the elusive Higgs boson particle.