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Cloudy Saturday: Roll Your Own Cloud with Enomalism
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| Enomalism is a provisioning and management system that gets rid of some of
| the complexity of building a cloud infrastructure. The product was written by
| Reuven Cohen of Enomaly, an open source consulting company based outside of
| Toronto. Pat Wendorf, the firm's marketing director, describes Enomalism
| as, "a turbogears, Python-based web server app that uses the libvirt library
| from Red Hat to manage multiple hypervisors." Enomalism tries very hard to
| make computing resources easy to access and provision based on the needs of
| the application, rather than the location of the resources themselves.
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| The genius of the product is that it is based on libvirt. This allows it to
| easily support new technologies as they become available and supported by the
| library. Enomalism currently supports the KVM, Xen, OpenVZ, Linux Containers
| and VirtualBox hypervisors and the Amazon EC2 service. The company plans on
| supporting VMware ESX in the near future.
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http://ostatic.com/165080-blog/cloudy-saturday-roll-your-own-cloud-with-enomalism
Recent:
Down To Business: As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where Next Microsoft?
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| IBM's alignment with Google around Linux and Internet standards should have
| its longtime rival sweating sans Yahoo.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207601200
SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden
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| Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with
| the threat of cloud computing. The threat? I told her that virtually all of
| the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft’s) are built on
| Linux. (There is a potential displacement there for Linux distribution
| vendors but that’s another topic.) Linux as a platform is the enabling
| backbone of software as a service and cloud computing.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/05/08/saas-open-source-and-the-migration-of-burden/
Lost in the Clouds
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| Just as the open source LAMP stack created the current wave of Web 2.0
| companies, so free software will run the magic machinery keeping clouds
| aloft.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/lost-in-clouds.html
Can Microsoft be beaten in the cloud?
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| The spat seems to be over for now, but the fight with Phoenix is instructive.
| Microsoft is far smarter than we generally give it credit. The company keeps
| an eagle eye on its desktop prize, and is unlikely to allow anyone to build
| rival technology there. The only way to compete with Microsoft on the desktop
| is not on the desktop - it's in the cloud.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9945769-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Microsoft’s Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
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| Joel calls the creators of these efforts “architecture astronauts.” They
| generate plenty of hype, not only on Microsoft’s part, but across the
| industry in general around this next permutation of Cloud Computing.
|
| But it’s not the hype that has Joel really ticked off — it’s the fact that a
| whole generation of valuable and highly paid software architects and
| programmers are being sucked up into this vortex, “working on hopeless and
| useless architecture astronomy.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1103
Why Microsoft's approach to data centers won't work
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| The problem is that each UPS, in the process of "conditioning" the power,
| also creates "harmonics" that bounce back up the supply line and can "crap up
| power for everyone else," Baker said.
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| Harmonics is a well-known issue that's been managed in other contexts, so
| Baker isn't saying the problem is unsolvable. But, he argues, the extra
| infrastructure needed to alleviate the harmonics generated by 220 UPSs -- the
| number of containers Microsoft thinks it can fit inside the Chicago data
| center -- could easily negate the potential ROI from using containers.
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http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1365080214;pp;6;fp;4;fpid;337468494
Related:
Thoughts on JavaOne 2008 (mostly good, but lots of confusing messages from Sun)
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| Java is still the language of choice in the enterprise. Even with the rise of
| LAMP Java remains important and makes up huge swaths of the IT landscape in
| major enterprises--at least those who are not .NET. Even open source Java
| applications on Windows are popular.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13846_1-9939429-62.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NegativeApproach
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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