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James Hamilton on his boat, Dirona, docked at the Wakiki Yacht Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo: Kent Nishimura/WiredOn a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility’s main source of power, and about 15 minutes later, James Hamilton just happened to pull into the parking lot.It was a serendipitous moment. Hamilton is the Distinguished Engineer who oversees the increasingly complex design of the data-center empire that drives Amazon Web Services, or AWS — the nothing-
Two years ago, I blogged about ChessJam, a chess application that I helped develop where people from all over the world play live chess with each other. Since launching ChessJam, it’s been up and running 24/7 with very little downtime and has experienced some good growth.
Not bad for no marketing budget I think. It’s not a huge amount of activity compared to a lot of applications, but the performance demands are very high. Serious chess players don’
Page 1 of 2 VMware's top brass Wednesday made sure its hundreds of partners gathered for the company's Partner Exchange conference understood the threat posed by public cloud provider Amazon in the software-defined data center era. Rallying partners to make sure VMware's virtualization stronghold extends into the public cloud, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told partners that if "a workload goes to Amazon, you lose, and we have lost forever." "We want to own corporate workload," said Gelsinger. "We all lose if they end up in these commodity public clouds. We want to extend our franchise from
VMware's latest virtualization management software supports the deployment of applications and virtual machines to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. That doesn't sound like a big deal—numerous vendors do the same, including Amazon itself—but for VMware, it represents a recognition that it can't control every aspect of its customers' data centers.VMware has long had an aversion to supporting virtualization tools other than its own, even as rivals like Microsoft and Citrix happily built management software that could control the deployment of virtual machines using both their own hypervisors and VMware's. VMware always had a plausible excuse in that
Fujitsu Frontech North America has selected Eucalyptus to power the NuVola Private Cloud Platform offering
Cloud computing provider Eucalyptus Systems announced on Monday that Fujitsu Frontech North America has selected Eucalyptus to power the NuVola Private Cloud Platform offering.
The move comes on the heels of Eucalptus’ partnerships with cloud computing providers
As the end of 2012 approaches there is one clear takeaway about the cloud computing market – enterprise use has arrived. Cloud use is no longer solely hiding in the shadows, IT departments are no longer denying it’s happening in their company and legitimate budgeting around cloud is now taking place. According to the latest Forrsights Surveys nearly half of all enterprises in North America and Europe will set aside budget for private cloud investments in 2013 and nearly as many software development managers are planning to deploy applications to the cloud.So what does that mean for the coming year? In short, cloud use in 2013 will get real. We
Very few companies know how to scale and deploy cloud applications like Netflix, the ginormous movie streaming site. And now it’s making some of that cloud management expertise available to the masses via Github.
On Monday, the company open sourced Asgard, a Grails and JQuery web interface that Netflix engineers use to deploy code changes and manage resources in the Amazon cloud in a massive way. The technology was named after the Norse god of thunder and lightning but was once known as the Netflix
The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM.Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture. It’s good news for potential IBM customers because it means they can mix-and-match service and equipment vendors — Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Rackspace are also big OpenStack fans — without worried about getting stuck with one.Its first move will be to spin up a private cloud service based on OpenStack. There’s also some new software, specifically something called IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Application Insight, that’s aimed at
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