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Group targets open source cloud computing
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| Executives from Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are calling for developers
| to create an open source software standard for cloud computing. They showed
| their work on the effort—some of it still at a very early stage—at a
| gathering of researchers creating a test bed for cloud services.
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| The trio joined with three academic research institutes to form the Open
| Cirrus group in July 2008, each dedicating computer servers with a total of
| 1,000 cores to form a distributed network of systems as a research platform.
| On Monday, three more research groups joined the effort—the Russian Academy
| of Sciences, South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research
| Institute and MIMOS, a R&D arm of Malaysia's Ministry of Science, Technology
| and Innovation.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217800175
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Big data and Cloudera: Follow the money
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| Cloudera on Tuesday is expected to formally announce the closing of a $6
| million series B funding round led by Greylock (whose past investments
| successes include Red Hat among many others).
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10254022-62.html
Red Hat Sees Strong Demand For Cloud Computing
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| As many as 50 of its customers have begun building private compute clouds
| using Red Hat Linux, says Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. A few are
| investigating "semi-private clouds," in which they plan to share IT resources
| with trusted partners.
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| Speaking at the recent Federal IT on a Budget Forum in Washington, Whitehurst
| said Red Hat sees a "a ton of demand" for private, semi-private, and public
| clouds. As an operating system and middleware provider, Red Hat doesn't have
| a bias toward private or public clouds; both are business opportunities for
| Red Hat.
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http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2009/06/red_hat_sees_st.html
Private Clouds Better for Security, Red Hat CEO Says
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| A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public cloud, but
| without the attendant security and privacy headaches, said Jim Whitehurst,
| president and chief executive officer of enterprise open source software
| vendor Red Hat.
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| Moreover, if a company is running more than 1,000 servers, it could save
| money and become more flexible with its processor resources by building an
| internal cloud computing infrastructure.
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http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2009/05/27/private-clouds-better-for-security.aspx
Unlocking the cloud
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| Open-source software has won the argument. Now a new threat to openness looms
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| But now there is the danger of a new form of lock-in. “Cloud computing”—the
| delivery of computer services from vast warehouses of shared machines—enables
| companies and individuals to cut costs by handing over the running of their
| e-mail, customer databases or accounting software to someone else, and then
| accessing it over the internet. There are many advantages to this approach
| for both customers (lower cost, less complexity) and service providers
| (economies of scale). But customers risk losing control once again, in
| particular over their data, as they migrate into the cloud. Moving from one
| service provider to another could be even more difficult than switching
| between software packages in the old days. For a foretaste of this problem,
| try moving your MySpace profile to Facebook without manually retyping
| everything.
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13740181
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