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How Netflix Gets Out of the Way of Innovation

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 1, 2012

Adrian Cockcroft from Netflix has posted his talk from the recent Defrag 2011 conference.

Netflix is now one of the largest sites that runs almost entirely on public cloud infrastructure. We have become a poster child for how to build an architecture that takes full advantage of the Amazon Web Services cloud. But when I talk to other large companies about what we have done, they seem to have a lot of reasons why they couldn’t or didn’t do what we did, even if they wanted to.

This is a fascinating read that provides an inside look at one of the world’s most innovative companies. It’s too bad they were arrogant enough to effectively double their prices. Read the Full Story.

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Video: Hybrid Cloud Computing with Intel and Citrix NetScaler

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 12, 2011

In this video, Intel an Citrix describe their cloud on-boarding solution that allows you to move front-end app servers to the cloud while keeping sensitive back-end database servers secure in your data center.

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Interview: Microsoft’s Dan Reed Talks Technical Computing in the Cloud

By Rich Brueckner | Published September 1, 2011

Christian Terboven, Deputy Lead of HPC at the University of Aachen interviews Microsoft’s Dan Reed in a new blog post:

Christian Terboven: Being the person I am, I started the talk with a nasty question on the pricing scheme of Azure (and similar commercial offerings), claiming that it is pretty expensive both per CPU hour as well as per byte of I/O. Just recently we did a full cost accounting to calculate our price per CPU hour for our HPC service, and we found us to be cheaper by a notable factor.

Dan Reed: Academic sites, of reasonable size such as yours, can do HPC cheaper because they are utilizing the hardware on a 24×7 basis. Traditionally, they do not offer service-level agreements on how fast any job starts, they just queue the jobs. Azure is different, and it has to be, one can get the resources available in a guaranteed time frame. As of today, HPC in the Cloud is interesting for burst scenarios where the on-promise resources are not sufficient, or for people for whom traditional HPC is too complex (regardless of Windows vs. Linux, just maintaining an on-premise cluster versus buying HPC time when it is needed).

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