Recent Contributions

Keywords:virtual clouds, cloud marketplace, business process optimization, business analytics, high performance analytics
Authors: Theodore Omtzigt, Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc.
Abstract:
Complex workloads such as knowledge discovery, data mining, and business analytics go through different bottlenecks during their execution. These workloads can become database or file system bound, compute or memory bound, or network bound. Each bottleneck has different cost and performance attributes among the different cloud providers. For example, Amazon EC2 charges for incoming bandwidth, whereas GoGrid does not. This creates an opportunity to generate business value by finding the cheapest cloud provider to deliver a particular business service on. Furthermore, when such workloads are deployed in public or private clouds the value provided by a service that can seamlessly move these services around is greatly increased. The Stillwater Virtual Cloud Platform ™ virtualizes private and public clouds so that they are dynamically interchangeable. By enabling dynamic service selection, the Stillwater Virtual Cloud Platform enables a marketplace that finds the cheapest resource to execute these high-value business analytical services on, and directly passes these savings on to the customer.

Keywords:business continuity, SLAs, disaster recovery, platform
Authors: Omer Trajman, Vertica Systems, Inc.
Abstract:
Business continuity planning (BCP) is an expensive yet a necessary exercise for many IT organizations. Since planning for fully redundant service availability in case of outages is economically impractical, IT spends hours optimizing machine utilization around upgrades and maintenance. For unplanned outages, IT must establish replication for critical systems and monitor them for consistency and data accuracy. Since BCP for existing mission critical applications take precedence over new demands, the costs of managing IT can be overwhelming. The cloud offers a cost effective platform for handling disruptive events – both planned and unplanned.

This session will discuss how to deploy cloud computing effectively and securely to balance new business requirements with existing SLA demands. Attendees will learn how to take advantage of the flexibility offered by cloud computing to increase utilization of their existing investments and maintain data security.

Keywords: cloud computing standards, cloud computing interoperability, reference implementations
Authors: Robert Grossman, Open Cloud Consortium.
Abstract:
The Open Cloud Consortium (www.opencloudconsortium.org) is a new
not-for-profit consortium that 1) supports the development of
standards for cloud computing and frameworks for interoperating
between clouds; 2) supports the development of benchmarks for cloud
computing; 3) supports open source software for cloud computing; 4)
manages a testbed for cloud computing called the Open Cloud Testbed;
and, 5) sponsors workshops and other events related to cloud
computing.

In this talk, we give an introduction to the Open Cloud Consortium and
describe some of its working groups and current activities.

Keywords: cloud storage, distributed, massively scalable, ubiquitous access, universal file storage
Authors: Philippe Nicolas, KerStor.
Abstract:
Clearly the biggest IT buzzword in the industry today, Cloud term is now used everywhere and sometimes overeused. In fact, Cloud Computing and Storage try to address Data Center and IT key pain points such as Complexity, Cost, Compliance, Obsolescence and Performance representing the ultimate evolution of Utility Computing and IT on Demand leveraging Internet. This presentation will introduce, define and describe Could Storage with use cases to illustrate some Cloud applications such as online data serving, offsite data protection, archive and vaulting or the clear apparition of a new tier of storage.