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Editor's Note: Do It Yourself "Cloud"
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| But "cloud" covers a lot of different
| services, and there is no need to throw out
| good ideas. Cloud services can be roughly
| divided into four categories: ordinary
| hosting services for Web sites and email,
| hosted applications, offsite data storage
| and backups, and hosting services that use
| virtualization and distributed computing to
| provide flexible resource allocation. The
| last is what I consider to be the true
| cloud, and the other three items can all be
| put inside this cloud.
|
| Whatever you call it and however you want
| to implement it, why not do-it-yourself?
| Linux has everything you need. It means
| being responsible for your own security,
| hardware, and uptimes, bandwidth costs. It
| may be that using a hosting service is more
| cost-effective. But there are plenty of DIY
| options, and you keep control in your
| hands.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-21-001-35-OS-SV
Cloud computing security benefits, risks and recommendations
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| ENISA's report is the first to take an
| independent, in-depth look at all the
| security and privacy issues of moving into
| the cloud, outlining some of the
| information security benefits of cloud
| computing, as well as 35 key security
| risks.
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http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8531
Open-source CloudMade takes on Google Maps
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| CloudMade is gearing up to release a set of
| tools that will enable people to quickly
| and easily contribute to the OpenStreetMap
| project.
|
| At the same time the company is looking to
| create a developer model that will enable
| developers to use OpenStreetMap data and
| databases in their websites and iPhone
| applications.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3206875
Open source and the cloud - the quick and the dead
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| And if youâre wondering why a cloud
| provider would bother working with an open
| source specialist vendor, rather than just
| taking their code, consider this: one of
| the cloud providers mentioned in this post
| pays for enterprise Linux support
| subscriptions rather than using a community
| Linux or supporting its Linux servers
| internally. And it isnât Microsoft.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/11/20/open-source-and-the-cloud-the-quick-and-the-dead/
Recent:
Open-source tools could make it easier to build a hybrid cloud
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| Of the two packages, Eucalyptus is farther
| along in terms of development: NASA uses
| Eucalyptus for its Nebula cloud. The Energy
| Department's Argonne National Laboratory is
| also exploring Eucalyptus, for scientific
| research. Deltacloud is still in
| development, though agencies could
| participate and help define it features.
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http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/13/hybrid-clouds.aspx
Cloud is Just Another Word for "Sucker"
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| The cloud, software as a service, hosted
| applications, whatever you want to call it
| is coming. The concepts are useful, but I
| have little faith in the implementations.
|
| A Practical Alternative
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| As always in Linux-land, there is a role
| for the do-it-yourselfer to turn dung into
| gold. Come back next week and I will tell
| about this.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2009111400635OPSV
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