Archive for July, 2010

New Cloud Hosting Study

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

A recent survey of cloud computing trends found more companies view cloud computing as something that will help their business grow.  The Yankee Group Cloud Computing FastView survey probes more than 400 U.S. IT decision-makers in companies with 250 or more employees.  It includes 53 questions focused on these companies’ plans for cloud computing deployments. The Cloud Computing FastView survey includes one-time delivery of PowerPoint slides with analyst insight as well as detailed Excel and SPSS data files.

The 2010 FastView Survey, which consisted of interviews with all 400 U.S. IT leaders, discovered nearly 60 percent of respondents said they consider the cloud to enable businesses, while fewer than 40 percent say the technology has yet to, and may never, mature.

The 60 percent mark reached in this year’s survey is a substantial increase from 2009, when only 37 percent of respondents saw cloud computing as an enabler.  “Cloud computing is on the cusp of broad enterprise adoption,” said Sheryl Kingstone, research director at Yankee group and co-author of the report.

The report found “very large” enterprises are the fastest adopters of cloud computing, with many of them relying on a cloud integrator to help them transition to the the new technology.  It shows that 57% of the companies surveyed believe that Enabling technology that drives business transformation and innovation.

The move to cloud computing has been a necessity for many companies, as most businesses are looking to reduce their expenses and become more efficient as a way of battling out of the recession. Through cloud services such as SaaS, companies of all sizes have traded in traditional desktop software for a pay-as-you-go system, which offers them increased mobility and scalability.ADNFCR-2553-ID-19914859-ADNFCR I also found it interesting that 67% said that they preferred the private cloud over any other type of cloud available at the time.

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OpenStack Code

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Here is all the info that you will need to help start making Open Stack a success.  If we all contribute a little this will help us all out in the end. The OpenStack Open Source Cloud Mission: to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

Web site – http://openstack.org
Mailing list – openstack@lists.launchpad.net – see https://launchpad.net/~openstack
Blogs – http://planet.openstack.org/
Continuous Build/Integration – http://hudson.openstack.org/

OpenStack Compute (nova):
Read Documentation – http://nova.openstack.org
Mailing list – nova@lists.launchpad.net – see https://launchpad.net/~nova
IRC – #openstack on freenode.net

OpenStack Object Storage (swift):
Read Documentation – http://swift.openstack.org
Mailing list – swift@lists.launchpad.net – see https://launchpad.net/~swift
IRC – #openstack on freenode.net

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Virtual Credits In The Social Cloud

Friday, July 30th, 2010

I see Virtual Credits as being one of the next big things.  Social Currency/Virtual Credits is the talk of all the major platforms, it’s like free money for them where they can provide virtual goods to clients and make money off them.  Crazy that people would pay for that but I guess we all have bought something stupid at one time or another.

In the preliminary model, the user accesses the social cloud through a service like Facebook. The resources are made available in online marketplaces. According to IEEE Spectrum, users acquire resources by exchanging virtual credits.

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Here’s the catch. The researchers say for it to work you cannot buy additional credits. They can only be earned through participation. It’s a virtual economy and it acts as an internal control. The goal being to share resources and prevent overuse.

How easy would it be to store virtual credits on a cloud hosting model?  All you would have to do is have it call on the same image for each instance that it’s called upon.  You could sell a Virtual Good for $10 to 2000 people and virtually have to use ZERO SPACE on your virtual credits cloud server.  Seems like a cheat but many companies are moving to the virtual goods cloud hosting model.   People love their virtual goods and as long as that is still going on, their will be profiteering in that sector!

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