Category: Benchmarks
Cycle Computing creates top 114th Supercomputer in the Cloud
Cycle Computing had recently provisioned a 10,000 core supercomputer in the cloud using its CycleCloud service. The computational power of the cluster places it in the top 114th of the world’s Supercomputers. Founded in 2005, the company has assisted customers in maximizing their computing resources with its reliable, secure and highly scalable HPC (high performance [...]
Say Goodbye To Hardware – The Future Lies In The Skies
It’s certainly a bold prediction by Alex Wawro of PC World, but one that’s certainly possible. By 2020, not only will it be possible for you to build an IT network without any need for on-site hardware, but it’s probably going to be the most popular way of managing your data. The likely office setup [...]
Amazing Amazon S3 statistics
Amazon Web Services said this week that its S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects at the close of 2009. The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second, according to Amazon’s Jeff Barr. Read [...]
Database Gurus Tackle Cloud Computing Challenges
The challenges cloud computing presents to database technology came into focus Friday during the New England Database Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One talk by University of Massachusetts researcher Emmanuel Cecchet centered on Dolly, a system focused on dynamic provisioning of database resources in the cloud. Cloud-based deployments work particularly well for Web [...]
How Cloud Computing Changes IT Staffs
A good friend who spent years selling to CIOs once commented about CIO priorities “They can only focus on three big things, and two of them are budgets and people, so don’t expect that it’s easy making your widget a top priority within the organization.” There’s a lot of wisdom in Abbie’s and my friend’s [...]
Cloud Computing Defies Lock-In at the Web 2.0 Summit
Interesting… Clouds are amorphous. They don’t have well-defined boundaries. So it is with cloud computing, though that didn’t stop a few leading cloud computing vendors from trying to nail the concept down. On Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Summit, O’Reilly Media founder and conference co-chair Tim O’Reilly plumbed the depths of the cloud with Paul [...]
Amazon Web Services Takes Advantage of GPUs in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. AWS has added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which provides [...]
CA Unveils Turnkey Cloud Computing Solution, Launches MSP Program
CA has announced a turnkey cloud computing platform for companies looking to deploy a cloud environment quickly and easily. In addition, the company is launching a managed services program around the technology, enabling MSPs to add cloud infrastructure services to their stable of offerings for their enterprise customers. CA 3Tera AppLogic is an end-to-end solution [...]
Kristin’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Kristin's Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Oracle cloud hardware does incredible numbers
Oracle on September 19 reached for the business computing “cloud,” taking an unabashed shot at Salesforce.com’s winning way of selling applications as services on the Internet. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison unveiled an Elastic Computing Cloud combination of hardware and software that he said offered ten times the capacity of IBM’s biggest machine at a [...]
