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OpenStack’s Newest Release, “Grizzly” to be Featured This Week at Annual Summit

By William | Published April 15, 2013

Over at Computer Weekly, Adrian Bridgwater writes that at the OpenStack Summit this week in Portland, Oregon, organizers will focus on the latest release of the cloud control software referred to as “Grizzly”.

The Grizzly release is a clear indication of the maturity of the OpenStack software development process, as contributors continue to produce a stable, scalable and feature-rich platform for building public, private and hybrid clouds,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation.

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Magento Gives Rackspace Even Stronger Presence in E-Commerce

By William | Published April 11, 2013

The VAR Guy‘s Christopher Tozzi reports that Cloud giant, Rackspace, has partnered with Magento to provide both companies with greater strategic advantages.

From a broader channel perspective, there are two key points to note from this news. First, it underlines the growing convergence between cloud computing and online retailing, which hasn’t always been at the top of the list of cloud applications. That’s changing as more and more commerce shifts online, and companies seek to operate in larger markets that may involve less consistent traffic patterns.

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IT Organizations to be Profoundly Affected by the Cloud in the Future

By William | Published April 11, 2013

Over at IDG, Bernard Golden writes that the tone of cloud computing discussions have turned from sexy to the practical and chief among these topics is the nature of IT organizations down the road.

It’s remarkable how the tone at Cloud Connect in Silicon Valley has changed over the years. The conference has turned from cheerleading to nuts and bolts. This means it’s less fun, but it’s also more grounded in the day-to-day realities of implementing change instead of envisioning utopia. Many presentations focus on real-world use cases and concrete action steps, with a strong focus on hybrid cloud computing.

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Video: The Improvement of the Cloud Computing ERPs

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 25, 2013

In this video, Dr. Zenon Michaelides from the University of Liverpool Management School describes how Cloud Computing enables a paradigm shift in the way we have been interacting with systems. This presentation focuses on achieving visibility in cloud-based enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems. It reviews how cloud-based ERP systems are being widely adopted and extensively used in decision support. Furthermore, we discuss how cloud-based ERP systems enable SMEs to collaborate and be more competitive in the extended enterprise.

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How the Cloud is Revolutionizing Pharma

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 23, 2013

Over at OpenSource Connections, Douglas Turnbull writes that a recent event brought home how quickly Cloud Computing, Full Text Search, and Big Data are revolutionizing genomics and pharmaceutical research.

Cycle Computing showed how its platform affordably gathers EC2 spot instances to maximize compututational power to work on computationally hard problems in the pharma space. By doing this, Cycle can capture a massive amount of computational power. Their platform deals with the “spotty” nature of these instances — adding fault tolerance and managing the dynamic nature of the instances. Cycle’s platform can also balances stable local resources in conjunction with spotty cloud resources to provide these services.

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Video: The UberCloud HPC Experiment – Paving the Way to HPC as a Service

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 15, 2013

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Wolfgang Gentzsch presents: The UberCloud HPC Experiment – Paving the Way to HPC as a Service.

You can participate in this experiment as an industrial End-User in need of instant additional computing power accessible remotely, or as a compute Resource Provider, or as a Software Provider, or as an HPC Expert.

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Wolfgang Gentzsch on Cloud Sustainability

By Rich Brueckner | Published February 27, 2013

Over at International Science Grid This Week, Andrew Purcell catches up with Wolfgang Gentzsch to learn more about the challenges of cloud sustainability in Europe.

Sustainability in the context of cloud infrastructures means the long-term maintenance of their services for a wider user and customer community. Researchers who previously have used their own limited resources are benefiting tremendously from clouds: for example, by avoiding long waiting times for their compute jobs; enjoying on-demand availability of resources; experiencing no peak-demand bottlenecks; having the best-suited resources always available at their fingertips; not having to deal with cumbersome procurements; and having no need to maintain their own expensive IT infrastructure. Clouds serve larger communities and, therefore, sustainability is key.

Gentzsch is presenting on the Ubercloud HPC Experiment this week at the CloudScapeV Conference in Brussels. Read the Full Story.

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Uber-Cloud Experiment Looks at Barriers to HPC Adoption

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 10, 2013

Over at The Exascale Report, John Barr and Wolfgang Gentzsch review the Uber-Cloud experiment, a project to help researchers explore the end-to-end process for scientists and engineers, from technical challenges to social barriers, as they access remote HPC facilities on which to run their applications.

The goal of the Experiment is to form a community to explore the challenges and benefits of running HPC applications in the cloud, to study the end-to-end process, learn what works (and what doesn’t), and to document the findings to help the next group of potential participants.

The motivation for the project came from a series of conversations between Wolfgang Gentzsch and Burak Yenier, who wanted to better understand the validity of perceived problems of running HPC in the cloud including privacy, security, unpredictable costs, ease of use, software licensing, and application performance. Read the Full Story.

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Video: An introduction to Cloud Computing

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 12, 2012

In this video, Mark Riley from Ohio University presents: An Introduction to Cloud Computing.

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Slidecast: An Introduction to Cloud Computing

By Rich Brueckner | Published September 16, 2012

In this video, Dr. Manish Parashar from Rutgers University presents: An Introduction to Cloud Computing.

Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant paradigm that has been widely adopted by enterprises. Clouds provide on-demand access to computing utilities, an abstraction of unlimited computing resources, and support for on-demand scale up, scale down and scale out. In this talk I will cover the “why”, “what” and “how” of Cloud computing and explore the landscape of cloud services. I will also explore how science and engineering applications can benefit from clouds and how the cloud abstraction can lead to new paradigms and practices.

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