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Aug 27, 2008

Grid-Scale Monitoring, Open-Source Price

GroundWork Open Source has been doing open source network monitoring since 2004, and probably has the most extensive system out there for large networks, on par capability-wise with the packages from the large, commercial companies. It's largest installation has more the 10,000 nodes, and the company has teamed with Ganglia to target clusters and grids specifically. Read more...

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Bring Cloud Computing Inside

What if you could construct your own internal cloud within your own four walls, to maximize the benefits of the concept without being held up by its limitations? And what if you didn’t have to change your current applications or data while still being able to leverage external cloud resources where they best fit your needs? For many of us, this is, in fact, the ideal application of cloud computing.
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Database Virtualization: A Stepping Stone to Virtualization 2.0

In this interview with On-Demand Enteprise, Xkoto Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder Albert Lee discusses the ins and outs of the database virtualization market, as well as the future direction of Xkoto's one-of-a-kind Gridscale solution. Currently supporting only IBM's DB2 database, Gridscale will support SQL Server within the next 30 days.
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Hyperic Focuses X-Ray Vision on Google

In June, Hyperic introduced CloudStatus, a free hosted service that provides an independent, graphical dashboard view into the "general health" of Amazon Web Services. Today, just a couple weeks after a problem at the Google server farm left some users scratching their heads, Hyperic is announcing CloudStatus monitoring of Google App Engine.
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How the Other Half Does Online Bookselling

As shocking as it might seem, there is more than one place to go for your online book-buying needs. AbeBooks.com, an online marketplace for new and used books, including rare and collector's editions, is utilizing Oracle's Coherence data grid solution in order to improve the online shopping experience, as well as to ease backend operations.
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Who Provides What in the Cloud

8/27/08 | InfoWorld | More and more tech companies promise cloud offerings. But they're not all the same. Read more...

Virtualization and Security - New Rules for a New Game

8/27/08 | Virtual Strategy Magazine | Many long-standing security techniques that have been successfully applied to managing physical machines may not be well-suited to a virtual environment. Read more...

Popularity of IT Integration and Service Oriented Architecture Waning

8/27/08 | Computer Weekly | An independent study has discovered that integration is less of a priority that it used to be. Read more...

Polluting the Cloud with Incompatible Ideas and Applications

8/26/08 | CNET News | The term cloud computing is now in common use. So common in fact, that it clearly encompasses many incompatible ideas. Read more...

Optimizing Virtualization Success in a Time of Virtual Sprawl

8/26/08 | SYS-CON | "Go forth and multiply" has a new interpretation in the IT world: "Go forth and virtualize." Read more...

Citrix Bangs Virtual App Drum

8/26/08 | Byte and Switch | Citrix has added more flesh to the bones of its desktop virtualization strategy at a time when vendors are increasingly looking to tie server, storage, and desktop virtualization together. Read more...

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Raising the Bar for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing

8/15/08 | Aster Data | How can you meet the high-availability challenge of large-scale data warehousing? Is the answer to increase system capacity (vertical scaling) or add more servers (horizontal scaling)? Or, is there a better way? Learn the pros and cons of those approaches and how a cluster-based data analytics platform provides the highest level of price/performance and linear scalability.

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Derrick Harris

The Essence of 'On-Demand'
Clearing the Cloudy Air
Personally, I have had my fill of cloud computing for a while. However, a recent spate of media coverage decrying the paradigm altogether has me feeling like I woke up in an enterprise computing Bizarro World, where the discussion looks the same, but is, in fact, entirely different than anything actually going on in this universe. Thus, I feel compelled to write once again about the cloud.
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