Top PaaS, SaaS and IaaS Cloud Companies by CloudTimes. Cloud Computing Glossary. How to Use Amazon Web Services to Make a Video on Demand Service - ReadWriteCloud. Google TV is about to launch.
It's playing a part in the way people think about how the Internet and traditional media meet to form an entertainment experience that is new but not relegated to a traditional television set or a personal computer. Right now, television shows or movies can be converted to be seen online but it requires a digital device to view the programming. The television set can support digital media but it often lacks a browser.
That's what Google is banking on will make the difference. A browser, search and content that can be seen on a television set as easily as on a digital device. This will have the purpose of providing television with its own Web oriented architecture. In anticipation of the coming bridge between television and the Internet, independent filmmaker Zak Forsman began digging into what it would cost in time and money to launch an online video on demand (VOD) portal for Sabi Pictures. He then needed a streaming server. Dynamic Streaming.
PaaS. IaaS. Cloud Computing Players. CloudSwitch is Cool Vendor in Cloud Management. What the Bankers Say About the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud. Morgan Stanley recently released a report detailing a survey it did of 50 chief information officers.
We got our hands on the report and found it interesting from a market perspective. We do not ordinarily follow what the investment banks say about the cloud computing and virtualization markets. But the viewpoints from this breed of analysts provides a perspective about the maturity of the space. Overall, the report shows that investment bankers are paying more attention to cloud computing with particular interest in the acceptance of virtualization in the enterprise.
The report surveyed CTO's from a number of industries. The survey covers software, hardware, hosting and IT services. Quality of home based computing is evolving at a far faster pace than the enterprise. Software According to Morgan Stanley, half of the CIOs surveyed plan to use desktop virtualization next year, which the firm believes could double the reach of client virtualization. Hardware Hosting. Network World - AbiquoHeadquarters: Redwood City, Calif.What it offers: Abiquo Enterprise Edition, cloud management softwareHow much it costs: Community Edition: free download.
Enterprise Edition: From $211 for 1-49 physical cores to $432 for 1,000 or more cores Why we're watching the company: Abiquo has tackled two problems plaguing just about any IT organization that operates a virtual infrastructure – how to manage it effectively and how to avoid vendor lock-in. Abiquo combines open source software with cloud expertise and support for multiple hypervisors. "We built our product around where virtual management is going, which is the cloud. We are hypervisor agnostic and can move virtual machine images between any hypervisor. IT managers can use the software to create virtual data centers through which they can deploy bundled servers, storage and other physical resources, and applications from public or private virtual image libraries. Who heads the company? Who heads the company? Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things Dis.
Today we launched a new option for acquiring Amazon EC2 Compute resources: Spot Instances.
Using this option, customers bid any price they like on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long their bid exceeds the current "Spot Price. " Spot Instances are ideal for tasks that can be flexible as to when they start and stop. This gives our customers an exciting new approach to IT cost management. The central concept in this new option is that of the Spot Price, which we determine based on current supply and demand and will fluctuate periodically. Louis Naugès: La première conférence européenne Cloud Computing,
Prague, quelle belle ville !
C’était le lieu choisi par SYS-CON pour organiser leur premier congrès en Europe sur les thèmes Cloud Computing et Virtualisation. SYS-CON se présente comme “the World’s Leading i-Technology Media Company” et organise de très nombreux congrès aux USA, sur le Cloud Computing, la Virtualisation, AJAX, SOA, et autres thèmes d’actualité. Le prochain congrès sur ces thèmes aura lieu à San Francisco en novembre 2009 et Jeremy Geelan, le responsable de ce premier congrès en Europe, m’a confirmé qu’une deuxième édition aura lieu en 2010, à la même période de l’année, dans un lieu non encore choisi. Remarques générales Cette première édition européenne a réuni quelques centaines de participants, ce qui, compte tenu des circonstances économiques, est un bon résultat. Je m’étais demandé pourquoi SYS-CON avait choisi l’hôtel Hilton (très Hilton !)
Cloud Security Alliance Cela a été, pour moi, l’intervention qui m’a le plus appris. Amazon Usage Estimates « RightScale Blog.