Video from my Cloud Computing seminar
This week I gave the same seminar regarding “What is Cloud Computing” in both Stockholm and Göteborg, here in Sweden. You can watch the video from the Stockholm event. The speech language is in Swedish and the length is around one and a half hour. The video format is Adobe Flash, so you need a proper flash-plugin. Cloud Computing Seminar – 12 May 2009 – Stockholm/Sweden Watch the video (requires…
Read more...How to jump into the Cloud
Cloud computing is a general term for a public accessible virtualization system. Virtualization + DataCenter + PublicAccess = CloudComputing Although there are more than one provider and others to follow, Amazon (AWS) has pioneered the field and I will refer to AWS only when describing hands-on procedures. Sign Up The first thing to do is to create an AWS account and register a credit card – yes it’s not free,…
Read more...What’s in the cloud?
Nowadays, there are many services provided by Amazon WebServices (from now on referred to as AWS). Names and acronyms such as S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, SimpleDB, CloudFront, EBS, EIA are swirling around. I intend not to describe all of these, rather I will concentrate on the second acronym; EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and its two companions EBS (Elastic Block Storage) and EIA (Elastic IP Address). These components (EC2/EBS/EIA + S3)…
Read more...Into the Cloud
I have previously investigated virtualization. A few years ago I used VMware WorkStation to run Fedora and Ubuntu on top WindowsXP. And before last summer, I used WMWS for a customer project running a deskop Ubuntu and two server Ubuntus (one with Oracle and the other as the project server). This autumn I discovered KVM @ Ubuntu. During this year I have been “kicking the tires” of the next logical…
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