Amazon Web Services is currently experiencing a problem with datacenters on the east coast of North America. And on the net (bloggers) the question of the failure of cloud computing immediately arose. Is the Internet at risk of crashing? Foursquare, Reddit and Quora fell with Amazon Here is an example above, where we talk about […]
Yesterday the news of this gigantic acquisition, worth 1.4 billion dollars ($19 per share) As can be seen from this excerpt from google finance, the intention to acquire at a value of $19 has increased its value by 30%. Below is the Verizon news: http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2011/verizon-to-acquire-terremark.html And that of Terremark: http://www.terremark.com/investor-relations.aspx This is configured in the […]
I will talk here about a piece of news that perhaps will not interest many, but I feel I must congratulate and make my personal wishes to Alessandro Perilli. Who is Alessandro Perilli : I would say a professional of Roman origins with a respectable curriculum. I would also say a source of pride for […]
Observation of the Cloud Provider market and the market of server, networking and storage equipment, makes us reflect on the farsightedness of some strategies. The well-known Moore’s Law: “The number of transistors per chip doubles every 18 months”, which corresponds to an increase of about 60% in the RAM and CPU of our servers, has […]
Today, Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it has achieved Level 1 compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Merchants and other service providers can now run their applications on PCI-compatible AWS technology infrastructure to store, process, and transmit credit card information in […]
For days we have been hearing about Swisscom’s takeover bid for our Fastweb, while a desktop and application virtualization project between Swisscom and Citrix is underway. Maybe soon we will have a serious offer of virtual office in Italy? The project with Citrix currently operates with 25 Citrix XenApps for 25000 concurrent users, provides XP-based […]
We continue with the large acquisitions. This is the turn of EMC on Isilon, a large entity known to most as a storage system vendor, acquires Isilon, which we talked about in 2008, a strong reality in cluster storage systems. The growth in the demand for scalability in storage, not only in the amount of […]
In the September 4, 2010 issue of the quarterly magazine “Trasferimento Tecnologia” we published our publication on page 26: “What is Cloud Computing”. Some excerpts from the site: “Luca Torre Editore’s magazine was born from a maturation process that involved various subjects active for many years in this sector and is configured as a platform […]
We have recently come up against problems of installation/configuration of virtualization in innovative HW environments for the creation of a virtual mini datacenter. The activity was carried out in collaboration with the Clara Consortium, with which we carried out the design and implementation of the virtual rack / datacenter in four arms. The equipment was […]
This article is a translation of a post by Frédéric Faure (system architect at Ysance) on the differences between using a cloud computing infrastructure such as AWS and building your own physical one. We report it because we believe the article is very correct. I have noticed many questions about the differences inherent in the […]