Cloud Computing Calls for a Shift in Emphasis from Hardware to Software
The cloud, whether private or public, says Sun VP Hal Stern, will change the nature of the system administrator’s job, demanding a shift of emphasis from hardware and reliability to software. He shared his views with Alex Goldman in an interview for internetnews.com. “With services, we are leaving the hardware world,” Stern said.
New Professional Services Help Build Global Customers’ Clouds
This new portfolio of professional services is designed to help drive new efficiencies for businesses with quickly emerging cloud computing models. The Sun Cloud Strategic Planning/Consulting Services can help clients evaluate cloud computing solutions - both public and private - with an eye toward cost savings and flexibility, evaluating customer cloud readiness and opportunities in regards to business, organization/culture, technology, and IT environments.
Diagnostic Collaboration at Its Best
The Sun Shared Shell, which supports SSH and Telnet and allows users to see and optionally control a remote system has been deemed a “cool diagnostic tool” in the blog of Steffen Weiberle.
Find Out if Your Sun Products Qualify for ASR
Automatic Service Request (ASR) is an automatic fault-reporting feature that is included with SunSpectrum service contracts and warranties for selected Sun servers and storage products. When a qualifying Sun product detects a specific set of hardware faults, ASR automatically opens a Sun service request, without anyone having to call Sun service to report the problem. To find out which products qualify for ASR, Sun has created a couple of wiki sites.
Define Your Lustre Parallel File System Requirements and Sun Will Deliver
Take full advantage of the Lustre file system by integrating the software quickly and efficiently into an HPC environment via the Sun Lustre On-site Implementation Services. This offering allows Sun to design, rapidly deploy, and perform acceptance testing for the pre-defined configuration of Lustre to meet HPC customers’ particular IT and business needs.
Cloud Services, Open Cloud APIs, Partner Initiatives Announced
The furor at Sun’s CommunityOne East Developer Conference was all centered around the company’s unveiling of its Open Cloud Platform - a set of core technologies, APIs and protocols. During the two day event held in New York City, Sun previewed plans to launch the Sun Cloud, its first public cloud service targeted at developers, students, and startups. Sun’s strategy is to bring openness and interoperability to the cloud computing market, the company said.
Solutions for Databases, Software, Security, and Service
According to Mark Perkins, CTO, Sun Microsystems Federal, business can use Sun’s blueprint for “architecture-based solutions” to help organizations achieve high-quality implementations and get to market faster. The architecture was developed from Sun and OEM technologies, people, and processes and includes solutions in the following areas: datacenter, software, security, and specialty, which includes service components.
First Order of Business for Sun Cloud Computing CTO Lew Tucker
Lew Tucker, Sun CTO for Cloud Computing, started with the company as a member of James Gosling’s original Java development team so, as you might imagine, he has some familiarity with legacy applications. After an absence of a few years, Tucker returned in 2008 to accept his current position, and he has already laid out his first concern, which is to determine how best to bring legacy applications into the cloud, according to Chris Preimesberger, who interviewed Tucker for eWeek.com.
Featuring Lew Tucker
A review of cloud computing is contributed by Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems. “Tucker said that Sun as a company had evolved its platform from a Unix, Solaris, and Java infrastructure without losing sight of the company’s original vision, which is ‘the network is the computer,’” writes Roger Smith, InformationWeek.com.
Storage Summit September 2008
Ben Rockwood, the Director of Systems at Joyent, presents at the Open Solaris Summit on the topic: Cloud Computing. His talk is made up of two parts: 1) What is the cloud and 2) Storage and Virtualization.
