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Re: GoGrid Experiences?

jason.mei...@gmail.com (JM) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:26:37 UT

if your looking for "slick server setup GUI" have a look at
rightscale.com for EC2. it's saved me a lot of configuration time for
starting instances, backups, network configurations,etc...

just my 2 cents.

On Oct 12, 6:32 pm, "John P. Studdard" <j...@bluepointegroup.com>
wrote:

Re: GoGrid Experiences?

rnug...@yahoo.com (Ray Nugent) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:19:01 UT

My experiences have been similar. I sent them the exact same feedback in a recent satisfaction survey they sent me so it looks like they are aware of the issue and actively soliciting customer feedback.
Ray
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GoGrid Experiences?

j...@bluepointegroup.com (John P. Studdard) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:32:32 UT

Have been doing the analysis of EC2 and GoGrid. Was starting to lean towards GoGrid because of slick server setup GUI, load balancing included and trial account coupons. I decided search to see if anybody has been having issues and found some articles about server and network performance as recent as a few weeks ago ([link]).

Re: Help Required

jason.mei...@gmail.com (Jason N. Meiers) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:35:02 UT

a good three week project would be to download a software load balancer,
reserve and configure 3-4 appservers and a database. build a sample
application, deploy it on the appservers. configure the load balancer to
round-robin requests across each appserver. test load and response times.
add more app servers then test load and response times again. if you have

Re: Hardware?

jan.klincew...@gmail.com (Jan Klincewicz) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:37:35 UT

They look very interesting. I wonder how they will fare against folks like
HP who just bought LeftHand Networks, or a software-only solution like
DataCore. When I worked with HP it was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to unseat an EMC
shop. Hopefully, new Cloud Providers will be less inclined to maintain the
status quo (and be taken to Hilton Head for golf.)

Help Required

sachinmkulka...@gmail.com (Sachin) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:06:45 UT

Hi,
We are graduate students from the University Of Minnesota. We have taken
an advanced course in Operating Systems which is mainly on large scale
and distributed systems. As a part of the course we are required to do a
project (preferably research oriented). The recent activity in clouds
has interested us in Cloud. Our professor gave us information about your

Re: Hardware?

silvac...@mac.com (John Silva) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:09:58 UT

The best storage array to compliment a virtual server infrastructure,
WEB2.O infrastructure or SaaS/Cloud/HaaS, is 3PAR Utility Storage. - [link]

These guys ROCK!

Their solutions does exactly what it says it on the cover, them seem
to have a cult like following with their customers proud to tell

Re: Hardware?

jan.klincew...@gmail.com (Jan Klincewicz) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:51:56 UT

Currently I am finding HP quite responsive in dealing with issues that arise
as a result of complex interactions among rapidly-evolving software and
hardware technologies. I am quite sure an IBM or Sun could rise to the
occasion as well.
There are dozens of brilliant new start-ups and small innovative shops out

Re: Please define IaaS

ran...@cloudscale.net (Randy Bias) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:50:59 UT

My understanding of the 'Platform' in PaaS is just as it is used in
Wikipedia:
[link])
Where the main differentiator is that it isn't a service, but a bundle
of APIs and supporting libraries onto which you can 'load-your-code-
and-go'. Much like .NET, Java, or the frameworks in modern OSes.

RE: Clouds Computing - SLAs

jlvale...@cittio.com (JL Valente) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:34:41 UT

Prasanna,

First you need to look at your service requirements in terms of
availability and performance.

1. How much downtime is acceptable for the application/service that
you plan to run on top of an IAAS?

What can you accept on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis? Best in
class availability stands at 99.95%+ or 5 hours of downtime per year?

Clouds Computing - SLAs

prabh...@hotmail.com (Prasanna Prabhu) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:59:23 UT

Hello Everybody

Can someone please help me or point me in the right direction, on what are some of the SLAs.
I know what are SLAs, but could never comprehend in a real life scenario

The reason I ask is, in-case we need to use/implement IAAS, I can understand what all things I need to look into...

Re: Hardware?

ed.di...@icoda.co.uk — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:52:43 UT

I agree, having delivered many virtualisation projects we are seeing fundemental issues even with tier 1 vendors. HP is the blade vendor which is proven for us over dell and ibm. However, to undertake an extensive R and D programme to prove emerging server technologies for a cloud computing platform would be viable.

Service Oriented Enterprise (or Service Oriented "Cloud Computing") -- Re: Please define IaaS

ron...@globeron.com (Ronald van Kleunen) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:52:53 UT

Dear all,
To follow-up on cloud-computing as a service and the stack (saas, paas,
iaas). The stack is actually bigger as the DataCentre, Management,
Process
and Security layers need to be included to create a Service Oriented
Enterprise (or in this case Service Oriented "Cloud Computing").
The __IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)__, is what we

RE: Please define IaaS

smb...@gmail.com (sathyashankara Bhat) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:09:48 UT

I agree to this from Paas point of view.

As for as my understanding goes, Iaas is "Infrastructure" as a service and
it includes Software and Hardware infrastructure. So anybody who is
providing a service where your hardware and software needs are met at one
point, one may refer to it as Iaas provider.

Re: Please define IaaS

mohammad.za...@gmail.com (Mo) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:19:19 UT

Very interesting conversation. You have seen and done good research on
these terms. Rod is pretty good in the analysis. IaaS is becoming the
compute and associated physical resources agnostic of OS and
associated development platform. I would characterize the IaaS is an
independent layer of "as a Service" where processing, memory, and