I was reading the press release about IBM Blue cloud initiative, though the press release was old. After reading I start doing some research about the Cloud computing, and came across with some wonderful organization providing this service and came to know the technologies behind it. Though its bit early, it reinforces my believe that we are going towards Utility based computing. Service providers who don't have planned or a vision on this is surely going to suffer in the next couple of years.
What is cloud computing?
I have cut to paste this definition from wikipedia
“Cloud computing is a new (circa late 2007) label for the subset of grid computing that includes utility computing and other approaches to the use of shared computing resources, rather than having local servers or personal devices handling users' applications “
In the heart of cloud computing, there is virtualisation. A service provider provides a virtualized computer resource to a consumer through the network/ internet. Hosting service providers which provides virtualized images of server can be also called termed as cloud service provider. However, as they move up the value chain, we find providers with grid of thousands of hardware provides these infrastructure utility services as a web interface . Its irrespective which physical server your application is using . It will only guarantee resources like CPU, RAM, Storage. Next time you reboot your application it can get transferred from London to Hong Kong . Most of them use Mapreduce , Hadoop for processing large set of data . They break up the code into many small chunks, so that it can be distributed in parallel into thousands of computers . It all started in Google, as Mapreduce and then eventually taken into apache projects and produce Hadoop . It's an open source Java based frame work now . IBM is using Hadoop in its blue cloud initiatives.
Amazon web services EC2 elastic compute cloud services is building around Xen virtualized images. These services can get us rid of Hardware. Setup is straight forward for simple websites . But for a bit complicated infrastructure all the configuration works needs to be done, needs the assistance of system administrator. EC2 uses Amazon S3 for storage. Recently, S3 was in the news for all the wrong reason as it was down for a couple of hours. Serious corporate customer will be hesitating to use this kind of services . Yahoo, Google all planning to provide these services.
While doing some Internet research I came across with a company called 3Tera. It takes a holistic approach and provides a wonderful service. It allows the customers to create its own Virtual Private Data Center. 3Tera partnered with number of hardware service provider which provides commodity Hardware (50,000+). Using Applogic GRID opreating system it creates a layer of abstraction on those servers and creats virtual images . It has build it storage network based on commodity direct attached devices of these servers. According to 3Tera it provides the first GRID operating software for Web based application. It provides an AJAX based interface to configure the infrastructure virtually . In the demo 3Tera has shown how to create a virtual infrastructure comprises of Firewall, Load balancer , web servers , SQL server , NAS by simply doing drag and drop , as if someone is doing a Visio diagram . Actually, they are all virtual images of their cloud .Application instances got deployed on these virtual servers . Entire infrastructure is up in just ten minutes. I believe this will be the future of Infrastructure Providers. I strongly recommend you to see the demo yourself.
What is cloud computing?
I have cut to paste this definition from wikipedia
“Cloud computing is a new (circa late 2007) label for the subset of grid computing that includes utility computing and other approaches to the use of shared computing resources, rather than having local servers or personal devices handling users' applications “
In the heart of cloud computing, there is virtualisation. A service provider provides a virtualized computer resource to a consumer through the network/ internet. Hosting service providers which provides virtualized images of server can be also called termed as cloud service provider. However, as they move up the value chain, we find providers with grid of thousands of hardware provides these infrastructure utility services as a web interface . Its irrespective which physical server your application is using . It will only guarantee resources like CPU, RAM, Storage. Next time you reboot your application it can get transferred from London to Hong Kong . Most of them use Mapreduce , Hadoop for processing large set of data . They break up the code into many small chunks, so that it can be distributed in parallel into thousands of computers . It all started in Google, as Mapreduce and then eventually taken into apache projects and produce Hadoop . It's an open source Java based frame work now . IBM is using Hadoop in its blue cloud initiatives.
Amazon web services EC2 elastic compute cloud services is building around Xen virtualized images. These services can get us rid of Hardware. Setup is straight forward for simple websites . But for a bit complicated infrastructure all the configuration works needs to be done, needs the assistance of system administrator. EC2 uses Amazon S3 for storage. Recently, S3 was in the news for all the wrong reason as it was down for a couple of hours. Serious corporate customer will be hesitating to use this kind of services . Yahoo, Google all planning to provide these services.
While doing some Internet research I came across with a company called 3Tera. It takes a holistic approach and provides a wonderful service. It allows the customers to create its own Virtual Private Data Center. 3Tera partnered with number of hardware service provider which provides commodity Hardware (50,000+). Using Applogic GRID opreating system it creates a layer of abstraction on those servers and creats virtual images . It has build it storage network based on commodity direct attached devices of these servers. According to 3Tera it provides the first GRID operating software for Web based application. It provides an AJAX based interface to configure the infrastructure virtually . In the demo 3Tera has shown how to create a virtual infrastructure comprises of Firewall, Load balancer , web servers , SQL server , NAS by simply doing drag and drop , as if someone is doing a Visio diagram . Actually, they are all virtual images of their cloud .Application instances got deployed on these virtual servers . Entire infrastructure is up in just ten minutes. I believe this will be the future of Infrastructure Providers. I strongly recommend you to see the demo yourself.
1 comment:
Reading this blog I got completely aware of Cloud computing concept and its requirement necessity in the near future. After watching the clip provided by the means of link in this blog I shurelly agree with your point of view regarding Cloud Computing.
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