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Re: OVF

2008-09-07T20:12:35Z

If that is the case, I don't see how this differs greatly from the V2V tools
from Platespin, Vizoncore, HP etc... (except maybe it will be free
translations, and use standardized XML, etc. !!) That would certainly make
the aforementioned products a bit useless,though eh ??
As it stands, a V2V conversion lists for about 100 per. Granted this is

Re: OVF

2008-09-07T18:48:53Z

From what I understand (to date), OVF standardizes the metadata for a
VM image or a group of interrelated VM images. It's an aggregation
of several CIM profiles for virtual systems. It doesn't specify a
disk format (so we'll still be stuck with VMDK, etc.).
But, still useful to be able to standardize the definition (one

Re: Amazon Web Services Security Whitepaper

2008-09-07T18:08:19Z

The level of detail was mentioned further up. One thing it is worth
bearing in mind is that publishing these kinds of things is a tricky
balancing act. On one hand, you could be confident that you have the
best protection in the industry. Nevertheless, some part of the
system is going to be relatively more vulnerable than another.

Re: OVF

2008-09-07T15:10:39Z

Essentially, this will be a common format for hypervisors to recognize. It
may or may not supplant the proprietary or semi-proprietary formats which
now exist (VHD, VMDK etc.)
This will lead towards ease of migrating VMs among differing hypervisors. I
am not quite sure how easy this will be as some virt techniques use

RE: Amazon Web Services Security Whitepaper

2008-09-07T14:46:24Z

Tim,
That is why, as a customer, you always ask for the independent,
third-party security audit reports. I am doing work for a managed services
provider and our financial customers always insist on security audits. They
cover all of the physical security procedures along with who has had access
for the past 12 months, what their access privileges ware and what they have

OVF

2008-09-07T12:59:56Z

Hi group
I saw the news about Open virtualization machine format developed by VMware,
XenSource and other virtualization giants.
Is it certainly going to help the server virtualization community?
What type of things are there to be improved in OVF?
Gaurav somani
Graduate Researcher, INDIA
gaurav_som...@daiict.ac.in

Re: amazon elastic cloud as a render farm

2008-09-07T12:53:41Z

Since you mention LSF and licensing, I'll put on my corporate hat and
shill for a moment.
Folks interested in saving a bunch of cash, compared to the scheduler
above, doing HPC applications on EC2 should check out our recent white
paper on this subject.
[link]

RE: amazon elastic cloud as a render farm

2008-09-06T23:37:33Z

Uwe,

Can I ask what your application is?

I am building such a system targeted towards both 3D distributed

rendering and 2D image composting making use of a 3D graphics card for the acceleration (which has to be emulated on the Amazon system.

Regards,

Michael North

Re: amazon elastic cloud as a render farm

2008-09-06T23:29:49Z

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Uwe Schmitt <rocksportroc...@googlemail.co m
Back in 2006 we did 3D ray tracing on Amazon EC2,
as a part of joint project with NBC Universal (they had their data centers
maxed,
so EC2 was pretty cool and cheap way to get more capacity on demand).
Render farm used Maya3D nodes, managed by Platform LSF and NFS shares for

amazon elastic cloud as a render farm

2008-09-06T15:49:24Z

Hi,

I am looking for software for 3d rendering on amazons elastic cloud.
Google and amazons developer pages did not help me.

Greetings, Uwe

Re: GoGrid Needs to Rethink Security

2008-09-06T21:30:52Z

Indeed, using SSL is the easy and straightforward part.
The difficult (and more important) part is the security management. This
means procedures, processes, and support systems in place to ensure access
to information is only available to those who should have access.
It is true that if someone at support had access to passwords, this shows

Re: GoGrid Needs to Rethink Security

2008-09-06T18:27:21Z

Hi Randall,
I'd like to note that if the one-way encryption of the password is MD5,
then I can be patient or look it up on a database by people who have
been patient for me. To me, that's not a security advertisement worth
noting. The security mechanisms and procedures you expose should be a
base line example.

Re: Amazon Web Services Security Whitepaper

2008-09-06T18:02:08Z

This is a very good move by AWS in the right direction to provide
transparency on their security process and controls. They could have
laid this document better by highlighting what security process,
controls Amazon is responsible Vs Customer responsibility.
dom0/firewall DOS risk - My guess is that dom0/firewall are connected

Re: Changing the Relational Database paradigm

2008-09-06T16:38:44Z

If you don't need atomic transactions and your data is simple enough to
fit into a single row, these guys scale. Very few applications fit
naturally into this model, however. Most applications will require
major shoehorning, leading to a significant increase in application
complexity. This sounds counter intuitive -- a simpler data model that

Re: GoGrid Needs to Rethink Security

2008-09-06T16:03:00Z

The customer support rep that I spoke with said that the passwords
were encrypted, but not 1-way hash encrypted. They had an internal
tool that could lookup customer records and decrypt their password if
needed. He didn't mention the exact encryption method used.

Michael, thanks for your blog post and fast action on the issue. Your