RPath have posted a fun little video that summarizes what cloud computing is. It is focussed on the external cloud area, but it does give a simple and enjoyable outline of what Cloud Computing is and what some of the benefits are. So please watch the video below and if you are looking at an [...]

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The next version of Ubuntu Linux (9.10 code named Karmic Koala) it has been announced,will be very cloud oriented. This starts with their continuation of work to make it easy to deploy to Amazon AWS EC2 but extends beyond  that to incorporate the Eucalyptus Project in their server version.
EUCALYPTUS, which stands for “Elastic [...]

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When it comes to desktop virtualisation there are two big players, VMware Workstation and Parallels. Less well known is the Sun offering “VirtualBox”, which is available on Windows, Linux, OpenSolaris and Mac. Unlike VMware and Parallels, Sun are providing VirtualBox for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
As well as being a low/no cost [...]

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One of the large changes in IT departments over the past 3-5 years is the use of virtualisation for the building of test servers. In this post we shall describe how this can be enhanced through the use of internal cloud computing technology.

Most businesses test new software, they trial solutions promoted by vendors and test [...]

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Rome was not built in a day, nor was a server farm. Much like cities, server farms/rooms can soon become crowded, congested and soon it is gridlock.
So why am I telling you this?
Because you can do things now with your servers to make it both quicker and easier to make changes; but also give [...]

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