Technical University of Berlin, Atos Spain, British Telecom and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche are organising a session called “Big Data Analytics & Multi-Cloud – Extending the benefits of Big Data Analytics by using Multi-Cloud environments” that will take place December 5th in Berlin. The event will present real world experience from ATOS …
Can Cloud Computing Disrupt the HPC Market?
This article was written by Theo Lynn and originally appeared as a guest entry in Information Management. You can read the original here. The market for high performance computing is huge and growing. Estimates of the total HPC market range from US$21bn to US$29.4bn (IDC, 2015; Intersect360 Research, 2015). The cloud category …
Effervescent Clouds: Nimble Computing Infrastructure
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Reed. Daniel is Vice President for Research and Economic Development and University Computational Science and Bioinformatics Chair at the University of Iowa and a frequent government advisor on science and technology policy. He was previously Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for eXtreme Computing, …
What is Self-Management?
WHAT IS SELF-MANAGEMENT? Self-management has been posited as a solution to complexity in IT infrastructure development generally and cloud computing specifically. It has its roots in autonomic computing; these systems are designed to react to internal and external observations without human intervention to overcome the management complexity of computer systems. …
What is Self-Organisation?
This is the second post in a series of posts about CloudLighting. In this post, we discuss self-organisation, one of the principles behind the CloudLighting system. The self-organising behaviour built into, and exhibited by, the cloud infrastructure will address the complexity of cloud ecosystem. WHAT IS SELF-ORGANISATION? Self-organisation is a powerful …
Challenges in Heterogeneous Resources and the Cloud
This is the first post in a series of blog posts that describe the fundamental concepts behind CloudLightning. In this post we will establish some basic terminology, discuss the challenges of heterogeneous resources and the cloud and outline the goals and objectives of the project. WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING? Cloud …
NIST Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop 8
Our friends over at CloudWatchHub are streaming the NIST Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop 8 on their website over the next few days (7-10 July). The event is held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Conference topics include: Current State of Cloud Computing Standards Progress …