Free Infrastructure Resources - Host, Network, Storage and more. Updated 4/10/2014 Below is a list of free infrastructure resources available to those building labs or on a shoestring budget.
Heck maybe some of these tools can save you a few bucks on certain areas of your project so you can invest in other areas. Hypervisors VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi): The best platform, IMO, hopefully you can spring for at least Essentials plusCitrix Xen Server: Let’s face it, at a startup or SMB we may not be able to afford a commercial license, Xen provides Live Migration for free but good luck supporting it.KVM: Opensource platform, not for the faint of heart Storage Nexenta Community Edition: Turn bare metal equipment into a fully functional NAS. 18TB limit on the community edition would be fine for most (all?)
Backup and Recovery Monitoring vCenter Operations Manager Foundation: Another freebie when you purchase vSphere. Logging Automation VMware PowerCLI: Free, included, have I mentioned all the stuff thats included with your paid vSphere license? Networking Misc. The Keys to Enterprise Public Cloud. Today’s Cloud Computing marketplace exhibits a surprising bifurcation.
Public Cloud providers like Amazon.com are all the rage among small companies, startups, and individual developers. Enterprises, however, are largely investing in Private Clouds. Public Clouds are too risky, so the story goes, or perhaps enterprise decision makers are only willing to dip their toe in the Public Cloud water. We find this trend surprising, because in many ways the Public Cloud value proposition is stronger than the Private Cloud’s, even for large organizations. The perceived security issues are largely FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt), as Private Clouds are generally as susceptible to the same risks as public ones (if not more so).
The enterprise challenge Public Cloud providers have is telling the proper story at the proper time. Be that as it may, many of today’s enterprises are ready to move forward with more strategic Cloud initiatives. Marketing, of course, is only one side of the story. Architecting Beyond Cloud Computing’s Horseless Carriage. Home » Research » ZapFlash » Architecting Beyond Cloud Computing’s Horseless Carriage Today is a wonderful time for anyone interested in Cloud Computing to be working with the US government.
On the one hand, the government considers Cloud to be strategically important, and they already have a track record as an early adopter of Cloud Computing on a grand scale. On the other hand, the government is also in the unique position of being able to drive standards for the approach—and in fact, they are even responsible for establishing the most widely adopted definition of Cloud Computing. The federal agency who has taken this leadership position is the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the US Department of Commerce. Azure: Links, News and Resources (2) « Angel “Java” Lopez on Blog. Database as a Service DbaaS Product Directory « ABENDance. Security for cloud computing. Infrastructure as a Service: Cloud Hosting Marketspace. The business of supplying cloud services to corporations certainly looks promising.
Technology research firms are forecasting that the market for cloud services will expand at a dizzying pace over the next several years. The logic — remotely providing computing, data storage and applications as a service — is compelling. Customers don’t have to buy all that hardware and software themselves, and suppliers gain the efficiencies of running large-scale data centers for many different customers. In this blog, let’s consider some key trends to build clarity around Infrastructure-as-a-service. It's official: 'Cloud computing' is now meaningless. I have to credit my good friend and fellow blogger Brenda Michelson for relaying to me that yet another Gartner hype cycle report is now out.
You can expect to see its accompanying graphic (below) used in every vendor's presentation from now on. Enterprise IT sees phones, Facebook and tablets! Oh my! — Cloud Computing News. CloudStandards. Top 110 Cloud Computing Enablers Gaining Mind Share in 2Q 2011 « Business Innovations. Happy 4th of July!
I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend (if you happen to live in the U.S.) Today we take a look at the first half of 2011 to see which Cloud players are gaining mind share. In addition to the, “Top 110 Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share”, I have included, “The Leaderboard”, 120 Up and Coming Cloud Innovators, Movers and Shakers. So far the segment has been brimming with excitement as large enterprise information technology companies continue their rapid restructuring to an on-demand cloud computing model by enhancing their portfolios through acquisitions. Before we see the most recent changes, lets take a quick look at the 2011 acquisitions (2010 activity can be found here). Inverse Virtualization for Internet Scale Applications.
The word virtualization is one of those words that can mean a lot of things, sorta like cloud.
When people think of server virtualization today they often think of it in terms of taking a physical server and having it host many virtual servers each with their own operating system and application (One to Many). Many applications running on one physical machine. This model is enabled by virtualization software (e.g. VMware, KVM, Hyper-V), and perpetuates the classic application development model of One Application to One Server into a much more efficient infrastructure comprised of fewer physical servers. One Server to Many Applications. Therefore, server virtualization is a slam dunk, right? The shock and surprise, I believe, comes from the fact that Facebook (being an internet scale application provider) has an entirely different application development model from the typical IT organization that most people don’t understand.
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Pathways to an Open Source Cloud « Cloud of Innovation. VMXRay - Explore disk images in your browser! - (Current Session: Current) Understanding the Perspectives on Public vs. Private Cloud. Storage-as-a-Service: Cloud Storage Providers. Cloud Storage has been increasing in popularity recently due to many of the same reasons as Cloud Computing.
Cloud Storage delivers virtualized storage on demand, over a network based on a request for a given quality of service (QoS). There is no need to purchase storage or in some cases even provision it before storing data. You only pay for the amount of storage your data is actually consuming.