» Private Cloud http://abraham.taherivand.net Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:17:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Whitepaper – Cloud Computing Use Cases http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/08/69/ http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/08/69/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:07:56 +0000 abraham http://abraham.taherivand.net/?p=69 Via Twitter i got news from Reuven Cohen about a interesting whitepaper. He also mentioned it in his blog.
ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: IBM’s Crowd-Sourced Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper Published: “‘The goal of this white paper is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use cases described in this paper without using closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice.’”

Thanks to Reuven who linked this document to Scribd.

Cloud Computing Use Cases Whitepaper

If you want to get more information or take part in discussion and conversation join google group cloud-computing-use-case. I look forward to the response and feedback from the community to that whitepaper excited. My personal feedback could be followed at mentioned google group.

]]> http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/08/69/feed/ 0 OpenNebula – An Open Source ToolKit for building Clouds http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/07/opennebula-an-open-source-toolkit-for-building-clouds/ http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/07/opennebula-an-open-source-toolkit-for-building-clouds/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:43:21 +0000 abraham http://abraham.taherivand.net/?p=24 Today i read an interesting post, provided by Ignacio M. Llorente – “Innovations in OpenNebula 1.4“. He wrote about OpenNebula. Here is a cutout of the original post:

OpenNebula is an open-source toolkit for building Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud infrastructures based on Xen, KVM and VMware virtualization platforms.OpenNebula v1.4 is available in beta release, incorporating bleeding edge technologies and innovations in many areas of virtual infrastructure management and Cloud Computing.

While previous versions concentrated on functionality for Private and Hybrid Cloud computing, this new version incorporates a new service to expose Cloud interfaces to Private or Hybrid Cloud deployments, so providing partners or external users with access to the private infrastructure, for example to sell  overcapacity. The new version brings a new framework to easily develop Cloud interfaces, and implements as example a subset of the Amazon EC2 Query API. The OpenNebula EC2 Query is a web service that enables users to launch and manage virtual machines in an OpenNebula installation through the Amazon EC2 Query Interface. In this way, besides the Openebula CLI or the new libvirt interface, users can use any EC2 Query tool or utility to access your Private Cloud….

I heard about OpenNebula the first time on the OCCI Mailing list a few days ago. For me OpenNebula is quite interesting because i am involved in that topic within my work at our company, Volz Innovation GmbH and moreover in my research activities during my Master Thesis at the MWRG department at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In the last months i have been detailed got in touch with Eucalyptus System, a quite nice framework to build also your own private and hybrid cloud.

From my point of view support for VMware is a “must-to-have” feature, because a lot of virtualized IT-infrastructures out there are build up with VMwware solutions. That’s the reason i am very excited about the new functions described by Ignacio M. Llorente and his team at the project site.

I will take a detailed look on OpenNebula beta v1.4. within the next days and weeks. I will post and document my experience and estimation for OpenNebula in a following article in my blog.

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