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Miss Universe 2010

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Congratulations to Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete for winning the 2010 Miss Universe Contest.  In the picture below she celebrates with runner-up Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillips as she is crowned Miss Universe 2010 at the Miss Universe 2010 Pageant Final at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas on Aug. 23, 2010.

Miss Mexico Crowned As Miss Universe
Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

It was a great show and I loved watching some of the blunders like when Miss Philippines’ answer when asked what her biggest mistake in life was and how she fixed it. “In my 22 years of existence, I can say there is nothing major,” Venus Raj said. I thought it was funny because before the pageant, Raj was rated among the top contestants in an online poll on the pageant’s website.

How does Miss Universe 2010 have to do with the cloud hosting world and cloud servers?  How many people logged in to ABC and watched the pageant online?  According to random websites out there, there were 6 million viewers.  Those are all people watching online.  How much bandwidth is that to stream to all these people?  How many servers would it take to stream the same thing to 6 million people?  Do they have to keep those dedicated servers all year long for this one event?

With cloud servers you really don’t have to worry about that.  You can with the flip of a button up your server to be something that can handle this amount of traffic. Cloud servers are scalable and can have infinite flexiblity.  I highly recommend cloud servers for companies that have spurts of traffic.  Actually, I take that back… I think everyone should have cloud servers!

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Cloud.com Updates

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Cloud.com, today announced that its industry leading platform, CloudStack now supports VMware vSphere 4.1 and VMware vCenter™ Server. This new support enables enterprises and service providers who have already standardized on VMware virtualization technologies to extend their capabilities into the cloud without requiring changes to their existing infrastructure or virtualization management tools. Cloud.com will be demonstrating CloudStack on VMware vSphere at VMworld 2010 Aug 30 through September 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This announcement will bring open source cloud computing to all VMware customers.

“We are pleased to see Cloud.com add support for VMware vSphere,” said Jian Zhen, director, cloud computing solutions, VMware. “Cloud.com’s support underscores customer demand for developing cloud strategies on the industry’s only enterprise-class virtual infrastructure. Cloud.com’s customers can now choose to deploy their cloud infrastructure on the leading virtualization and cloud platform.”

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon EC2

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

“Customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) of all sizes have the ability to run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon EC2, paying only their operating hours” was announced by Novell in a press release on Aug 18.

Amazon EC2 cloud hosting customers get maintenance subscriptions directly on Amazon EC2 without having to sign in advance a separate license agreement. With this program, SUSE Cloud’service providers’c an also optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offering technical support from Novell or their own support services strengthened by the expertise of Novell.

“Over the next several years, IDC expects that enterprises will deploy a mix of physical, virtual and cloud computing resources,” said Mary Johnston Turner, research director for Enterprise Systems Management Software at IDC. “To make the most effective use possible of this dynamic and heterogeneous infrastructure environment, IT teams will need to shift to a more policy-based, automated approach for managing the building, provisioning, migration, monitoring, measuring and securing of corporate workloads. Intelligent workload management is an emerging market concept that addresses this complex set of needs by integrating a number of important technologies.”

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