Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
GDrive
I’ve been a keen user of Gmail since its earliest days, and I also use Google Apps at work, so I’m not surprised by the excitement around the launch of what people are calling ‘GDrive’, which is actually just a new feature of Google Docs that allows arbitrary files to be shared. What is a [...]
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Tags: aws, bittorrent, cloud, gapps, gmail, google, s3, SMEstorage, storage
Workload factoring
One of the things that IGT2009 got me thinking about again was workload. It’s clear when listening to people’s stories of what they’ve put ‘on the cloud’ (both public and private) that certain workloads fit more easily than others. The easiest pickings seem to be embarrassingly parallel high performance compute (HPC) tasks that have high CPU demands [...]
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Tags: cloud, grid, hpc, iaas, paas, workload
I spent most of last week at the IGT 2009 ‘World Summit of Cloud Computing‘. There were some great speakers there, but the session that sticks in my mind was Alistair Croll’s piece at the end where he talked about the future of cloud. One of the most thought provoking statements that he made was [...]
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