Amazon, which has been rolling out new features on a monthly basis—further cementing its global leadership and widening the gap between itself and all other players in the cloud computing ecosystem—has recently announced the release of a rather unusual new feature that leaves us a bit perplexed. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances A service associated with […]
On February 2, 2011, a little over a year after the last draft, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has some news to share. It has published a new draft (Special Publication 800-145, January 2011, by Tim Grance and Peter Mell), a guidance document on security and privacy in the public cloud (Special […]
From 2006 to the present, the economy and global interest in virtualization-related issues have undergone a remarkable and rapid evolution; it has become a field of study just as the development of digital cellular telephony once was. Let’s take a look back at some history: 2003 – EMC Corporation acquired VMware for $635 million, and […]
Microsoft technologies for virtualization ASI Polo Scientifico-Didattico di Forlì Windows 2008 On May 29th in the Mazzini room of the ASI Scientific Pole of the University of Forlì, Microsoft with their most famous speakers (e.g. Piergiorgio Malusardi) presented a seminar on its 360° virtualization solutions. The seminar lasted a whole day from 10.00 to 17.00, […]
While researching competitors, we came across the world’s first and only cloud computing company, whose approach is very similar to our business idea. These services are useful and very interesting: EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud S3 – Simple Storage Service SQS – Simple Queue Service FPS – Flexible Payment Service SimpleDB
Signing up for the professional social network LinkedIn to expand my knowledge and network and engage more and more with international organizations http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiocecaro Using groups and the Questions & Answers feature has connected us with several hundred professionals, managers, CIOs, CTOs, entrepreneurs, engineers, and sales account managers from all over the world—from the U.S. to […]
We came across this ongoing grid computing project between CERN and HP. It offered the opportunity to register and use computing power on a pay-as-you-go basis. It was a complex platform built entirely on Java and Xen. Our experiments with the platform were brief, but they gave us a lot to think about regarding the […]
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