Research

The Rise Of Clouds

The concept fulfills the long-held dream of computing as a utility and thus represents an inflection point in the geography of computation and IT service delivery. It tries to replace the traditional ‘desktop-as-a-platform” with “internet-as-a-platform”, which can dynamically provide always on and always available IT services to address a wide range of needs, ranging from scientific research to e-commerce, over the web.

Like all new technologies, they challenge some of our computing wisdom, change our assumptions and brings about a paradigm shift in how computing is provisioned, deployed, and metered.

Excellent Research Paper from Intel - Clone Cloud; Device in hand/Data-VM in Cloud

I mentioned something like this in one of our cloud computing group that we will be needing or let’s put it this way — when all the fight for a dying market (storage, boxes, marketshare etc) will be over, we will find ourself on one of the two end-points of the cloud. It would either [...]

First International IEEE workshop on Cloud Computing

This is a great place to not only exchange ideas but also get the bright minds together to build Cloud infrastructures for the NGCC. There are many topics which I personally see of great interest myself. Some of the authors are known to me [including the Chair] and I am keen to meet the rest.
Go [...]

War Child and my Virtualization/Cloud Computing book: Help me get that kid out of war!

Dear All,
My book ( http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-vm-manager-2-1-2/book ) on Virtualization (which also discusses on building and managing Elastic [...]

Report: Amazon to lead the post-recession boom with Cloud Computing

In the report, which analyzes the forces commoditizing enterprise storage, authors George Gilbert and Juergen Urbanski write that leading storage vendors are planning their innovation around a 3-year time frame, expecting adoption of new storage technologies to coincide with emergence from the current recession. An accompanying survey supports this analysis, as a majority of respondents [...]

Cloud Computing to get hot among SMEs, another reason to go cheap on the hypervisor!

The observations are right on track but they fail to mention many other important things. There are many other components involved in cloud computing other than cost. Report has not given any example that would help organizations to understand the report better. Big companies like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft have been at pinnacle of cloud [...]

ITIC’s excellent Cloud Computing survey; win an iPod!

My researcher/analyst girl friend, Laura DiDio [ex Yankee Fellow Researcher and now running her own shop ITIC] has setup an excellent survey. Do fill this simple and easy survey and let her know what you think of it. Fill in comments and you could win an iPod!
Go here to fill in the survey, its one [...]

SAS spends $70 Mn for a Cloud facility; Could they have done it cheaper?

I certainly think so. I am building prototypes with some researchers across the planet and also talking to some NGDC builders to see what they are spending in building the containerized “DC-in-a-box”.
Key is to build a NGDC-in-a-box with the following in mind:
- High-density (packed volumes should be efficient)
- Portability and transportability
- Pluggability (move containers across [...]

Venture Capital funding plummets to a 11 year low!

Venture capitalists invested just $3.0 billion in 549 deals in the first quarter of 2009, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterly investment activity was down 47 percent in dollars and 37 percent in deals from the fourth [...]

IEEE Vision Paper on “Smart Metering the Clouds”; Attend the workshop in The Netherlands

We are proud to have delivered our first research paper and have it accepted by the IEEE council. This paper, which will soon be published by the IEEE, is about CSER and about energy evangelism. We focus and propose our model that revolves around two spectrums. Spectrum one is about the advanced metering techniques that [...]