Open Source cloud computing ... nu mangler vi bare 'open source' hosting ...
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Open Source cloud computing ... now we only need 'open source' hosting ...
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Posted by Dave Rosenberg
Without a doubt, the cloud and all its forms and meanings were big news in 2008. Besides the huge growth of Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine, we saw Salesforce launch Force.com, a true platform-as-a-service.
My picks for the most interesting software of 2008 are Hadoop and Eucalyptus.
Hadoop is an Apache project, the "open source implementation of MapReduce, a powerful tool designed for the detailed analysis and transformation of very large data sets," which basically means you can process a ton of data on commodity hardware.
Hadoop is going commercial through Cloudera and while details are not publicly available, let's just say there are some very important and interesting foundations being laid for the way that people deal with computing and processing power.
Eucalyptus is an "open-source software infrastructure for implementing 'cloud computing' on clusters. The current interface to Eucalyptus is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain." [...]
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10128773-62.html
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