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Cloud Computing Is More Than a Computer in the CloudOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by MargaretM 24 days ago (http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: internet | Tags paul miller, cloud computing, data, compute,
A guest post by Paul Miller who writes "cloud computing is coming into its own, and it is becoming increasingly easy to see the opportunities for a significant shift in the way we access computation read more »
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'Deleted cloud' in second fall from skyOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 69 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
Category: internet | Tags cloud, hosting, storage, compute, aws, xcalibre,
Cade Metz writes, "In late August, an engineer with the UK-based hosting outfit accidentally deleted the company's high-profile compute cloud - which offers on-demand storage, processing, and netwo read more »
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Amazon adds persistent storage to compute cloudOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 139 days ago (http://www.infoworld.com)
Category: storage | Tags amazon, persistent storage, compute cloud, aws, , ,
James Niccolai writes, "The feature, called Elastic Block Store, allows developers to create a storage volume of between 1G byte and 1T byte and attach it to "instances" of applications running in Amazon's cloud. Developers can then detach the storage volume and use it later for other application instances and back it up to Amazon's S3 storage service if they need more durability." read more »
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New Directions: emerging compute modelsOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 253 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
Category: internet | Tags new, directions, emerging, compute, models, ,
"Software-as-a-service," "application streaming," "on-demand software delivery" are all popular ways of talking about a new set of emerging compute models that exist on a spectrum between traditional read more »
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Canadian Cancer-busters tap into grid computing.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 425 days ago (http://www.itnews.com.au)
Category: other | Tags canadian, cancer, researchers, grid, compute, ,
Canadian researchers intend to use the World Community Grid to shrink their research gathering phase from a period of decades to one or two years. WCG offers extensive distributed processing power fo read more »
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