Can You Afford an Enomaly? Dan Blum Research VP 19 years at Gartner 33 years IT industry Dan Blum, a VP and distinguished analyst, covers security architecture, cloud-computing security, endpoint security, cybercrime/threat landscape, and other security technologies.
Mr. Blum has written hundreds of research… Read Full Bio Coverage Areas: by Dan Blum | February 21, 2011 | 1 Comment This irresistible pun-and-metaphor popped into my head Sunday morning after my wife showed me the Economist’s Enomaly SpotCloud article, and it stuck, leaving no option but to succumb to writing what is for me an unusually short and chatty blog entry. For all the upcoming sarcasm or irony, I believe cloud brokerage has a shot at being the wave of the future, and some of my colleagues are dead certain of it. But for now SpotCloud has high fees and no guarantees. Further, the identity of the sellers of virtual machine (VM) capacity is opaque to SpotCloud buyers.
So take a look at the savings (as long as you don’t need security). SpotCloud: It’s a Market, Not a Cloud: Cloud Computing News « Spotcloud launches cloud computing clearinghouse. Need a quick computing fix?
Got excess computing capacity? SpotCloud.com, launched this week, is a cloud computing clearinghouse and marketplace that allows buyers and sellers to access or sell computing capacity based on individual need. Buyers can easily buy "with the configuration you want, the location you want, and the price you want, from a large (and growing) number of cloud providers located around the globe," promises SpotCloud.com's operator, Enomaly, of Toronto, Canada. "You can easily run your own VM images on any service provider through Spotcloud. " Sellers can also pump capacity into the Enomaly grid and get paid for it. "Many buyers of cloud capacity are ready and waiting today to buy your spare server capacity. Enomaly instructs buyers and sellers to register on SpotCloud and take it for a test run. Ready for a cloud computing brokerage? With cloud computing providers expected to grow exponentially there may be a need for a brokerage that allows IT buyers to efficiently procure services.
Enter the cloud computing brokerage, an idea proposed by research firm Gartner. At its Symposium powwow in Orlando, Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer walked folks through the cloud broker concept. This idea has been floated for a few days during the conference. The concept goes like this: Some entity needs to act as a broker as businesses work various cloud resources whether it be Amazon Web Services or Rackspace or Salesforce.com or any other vendor. Gartner is so sure of this brokerage concept that it claims that through 2015 cloud service brokers will be the largest revenue growth opportunity. So what's a cloud broker? A few key points about why a cloud broker makes sense: Plummer then goes out on a limb and argues that there will be multiple cloud brokers and 20 percent of cloud services will be consumed via a broker.
Cloud computing: A market for computing power. Is SpotCloud Google AdSense for Cloud Computing?: Cloud Computing News « SpotCloud - Cloud Capacity Clearing House / Spot Market: Home. Amazon Launches Spot Instances for EC2 - Cloud Computing. Amazon Web Services has announced Spot Instances, a new option for purchasing and consuming Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute resources.
With Spot Instances, customers bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price, Amazon officials said. The Spot Price changes periodically based on supply and demand, and customers whose bids exceed it gain access to the available Spot Instances. Amazon said Spot Instances are complementary to On-Demand Instances and Reserved Instances, providing another way to obtain Amazon EC2 compute capacity. To get started using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, visit customers continued to expand their use of AWS, they started asking if additional pools of capacity were available, even if only for a few hours at a time," said Peter De Santis, general manager of Amazon EC2, in a statement.
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