Red Hat OpenSource Cloud Computing Forum
Written by Ameed Taylor
Below are three of the more interesting/promising presentations from the recent Red Hat sponsored OpenSource Cloud Computing Forum.
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February 11, 2010
Written by Ameed Taylor Below are three of the more interesting/promising presentations from the recent Red Hat sponsored OpenSource Cloud Computing Forum. Q&A with Rackspace Cloud’s Emil SayeghSeptember 22, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor San Antonio based Rackspace is a global web host and cloud provider known for their high end managed hosting and dedicated services. The company delivers managed services to over 16,000 customers from eight data centers worldwide. Rackspace has recently made quite a splash within the Cloud Industry with the launch of a number of Cloud Services under its Rackspace Cloud division (formerly Mosso) I recently had the opportunity to interview General Manager Emil Sayegh about the Rackspace Cloud.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce Beta LaunchedApril 2, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of its newest addition to its web services portfolio; Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Elastic MapReduce is a web service that allows researchers, analysts and businesses to process and analyze data using a hosted Apache Hadoop “data processing engine” that runs on Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. Much like the Mathematica and Mathworks EC2 computational solutions, Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a metered service that is designed to be used for applications like data mining, machine learning, financial analysis or scientific research. Amazon’s entry into the market will provide a bit of competition (to say the least) to Cloudera for users interested in running Hadoop in the Enterprise. Elastic MapReduce will initially only be available in the USA and users can choose standard Amazon EC2 Instances or High CPU EC2 Instances to run their applications. Pricing for Elastic MapReduce ranges from 10 cents per hour for a small standard EC2 instance to 80 cents per hour for an extra large High CPU instance. Elastic MapReduce supports Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and Perl. Elastic MapReduce will be appealing to users that need to scale up quickly as the High CPU plans allow users to run up to hundreds of instances running Hadoop and instances can be run concurrently. Amazon EC2 and S3 have to date been very stable and the fact that EC2 and S3 are integrated with Elastic MapReduce and that instances can be managed via the AWS Console or command line are key selling points. Jimmy Wales Discusses Wikimedia Monetization PlansSeptember 10, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor Jimmy Wales sat down this week with a group of Bloggers and analysts prior to his keynote address opening the 2008 SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas and discussed a number of topics relating to Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization set up to encourage the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation also operates Wikimedia Commons, the repository of free images and other media and MediaWiki, the popular open source wiki software behind a huge number of corporate wikis. I asked Mr. Wales what the Wikimedia Foundation’s plans were to increase revenue, especially now that the foundation has increased its staff. Mr Wales said that the Wikimedia Foundation has to date relied on individual donations and volunteer efforts to achieve its mission and one of the longstanding goals of the foundation has been to increase revenue so that it can expand its mission and keep Wikipedia and the various Wikimedia projects running. Mr. Wales mentioned that the foundation has recently hired dedicated fundraising staff and is looking at several strategies to increase revenue including:
Mr. Wales said that all of the ideas for raising addition revenue have to adhere to the Wikimedia Foundations values and that the Wikimedia Foundation will never considered offering advertising on its varied projects. But with a dedicated fundraising staff in place he and the Wikimedia team look forward to working through the various ideas and strategies. |
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