Amazon vs. ProfitBricks
Amazon’s cloud computing service may encounter a new rival with an interesting offering on providing virtual servers. Rather than offering several types of pre-defined instances (each with a predetermined amount of memory, storage and CPU power), ProfitBricks, a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company is prepared to allow its customers to create their own [...]
High-Performance Computing and the Cloud
Recently, the high-performance computing sector has been a great example of what the public cloud can offer, particularly in terms of economizing while developing the scale of computation. Background Arguably, the high-performance computing (HPC) sector is a great indicator of the future of computing. In the cloud computing environment, HPC companies have leveraged cheap, plentiful [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Takes a Giant Leap
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a complete application of services, using which you can run everything on the cloud. AWS is heavily used by several companies and businesses to keep their data, ranging from applications to projects to mobile apps and social games on the cloud. Cloud computing is not only safe but also has [...]
Supercomputing with Amazon’s HPC Cloud
It’s no big secret that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a wildly popular option for high-performance cloud computing. These days, the EC2 is able to run many of the applications that previously needed a large HPC cluster or renting time from a supercomputing center. While Amazon’s EC2 is able to meet most general purpose [...]
Cloud Adoption from the Bottom Up
It may come as a surprise to some that the CIO of a company is often the last to know about cloud adoption in the organization. According to industry experts, cloud adoption rates are showing bottom up trends. Surveys of CIOs reveal significantly lower cloud adoption than similar surveys of developers. This article takes a [...]
