A brief note on Cloud Computing
There is much confusion in the Internet regarding Cloud Computing. Here are my own thoughts.
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is a term used to describe a service where Processor, Storage and Networking (bandwidth) resources are available to users over the Internet. The Cloud Compute services are used to run both Server Applications such as Microsoft Exchange, and Client Applications such as Virtual Desktops. There are two types of Cloud Computing being developed today.
- Virtualization based Clouds (for example, Amazon EC2)
- The application software, for example Drupal CMS, runs in its own Virtual Machines. The OS is not shared with any other application
Posted on 07.10.08 | 9 comments | Filed Under: EnSpeed VM Orchestrator, EnSpeed VMM, EnSpeed Virtual Appliance General
- The application software, for example Drupal CMS, runs in its own Virtual Machines. The OS is not shared with any other application
SSDs are good for Peer To Peer Synchronized Storage
There has been a lot of press recently regarding the strides that Solid State Drives are making. Take a look at this article:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/storageadviser/archives/2008/09/taking_a_global.html
It talks about the likelyhood of cheaper SSDs.
There is one point I would like to make regarding SSDs - they have very low seek times. This means that you do not need an array of disks to sustain high throughput from the disk subsystem.
To us here at Thinsy, this is good news. If you do not need to connect to an array of drives to get the throughput for multiple VMs, then the only reason left to