Infrastructure As A Service.
As noted earlier: transferring huge data files with TCP/IP between Clouds is a pain…
Asperasoft is well known for their FASP product: a Layer 7 protocol for fast and reliable file transfer that found its habitat in the video industry.
Borrowing from their experience, the guys at Aspera released an AWS appliance that implements a full...
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I have seen this at CloudStorm in Bruxelles.
B-Virtual is a Belgian company living symbiotically with cloud solution provider A-Server and developing an IDA-based (Information Dispersal Algorithm) file system.
A traditional disk subsystem obtains resiliency against data-loss by duplicating information (RAID 1 for example) or by adding check-sum stripes (for example: RAID 5). In typical...
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Stunning as things go.
VMware launches vCloud Express: a long due API interface to manage capacity dubbed as “Cloud”.
If you have a look on the Internet everybody now defines it as the way to make Clouds.
The real news, and it’s somewhat less of public domain, is that RightScale (my darling company) is supporting vCloud...
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I am referring to this article on The Register. The old man is not Richard Stallman but our holy Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO, for those living in a strawberry field), allegedly suspected of hazy practices.
We even hear rumors that new stuff should come on EC2. Yay!!
If true, it would officialy legitimate the Cloud, even...
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It seems that Canonical is betting seriously on the in-house Cloud if they managed to launch this.
But what about prices? If you read this article by Timothy Prickett Morgan of The Register it seems that Cloud Support costs averagely more than regular Ubuntu Server support. I have to check this on my own but,...
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Aspera is a company specialised in providing high speed, low-latency software solutions for data transfer.
Their flagship product is FASP, a lightweight,resilient protocol implemented at Application Level that is a replacement technology for TCP-based transfers (the likes of FTP, HTTP).
The nice thing is that it actually works! FASP is used mainly in the video industry...
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