Category Archives: opensource

Thoughts on Cloud Architecture in Open Source

Posted on 2009/05/29 by jeff

Recently one of my friends I met from LinkedIn sent me several questions, about Cloud Computing, which looks like a Request for Proposal (RFP). I post my very personal response here for a mindshare. About Cloud, Cluster/ Load Balancing, Data … Continue reading →

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Eucalyptus to be included in Next Ubuntu release

Posted on 2009/03/05 by jeff

Source: http://berkeleyclouds.blogspot.com/… One of the obstacles we identified in our paper was API-based vendor lock-in: If you’ve written your application to run on a particular cloud, and especially if you have automated management and provisioning tools, moving to a different … Continue reading →

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Build My Private Open Source Cloud Computing with Eucalyptus

Posted on 2009/02/26 by jeff

Building a private open source’d Cloud Computing environment isn’t that difficult as you think. Get the code from http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu and it took me about 3~ 4 days @ my spare time to complete the installation and configuration. This environment shares … Continue reading →

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AWS Case Study – MedCommons

Posted on 2009/02/18 by jeff

Source: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/medcommons/ MedCommons, a health records services provider, gives consumers direct access to their medical information (via web browser or Web service APIs) and allows an easy way to share this information with healthcare providers. These services are evidence of … Continue reading →

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Q&A: Citrix exec says cloud to carry Xen against VMware

Posted on 2008/10/30 by jeff

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10076377-92.html Author: Peter Judge Copyright: ZDNet I’m looking for the comparison between Xen and VMWare. I believe this interview tells some result and I highlight the key points in italic and bold from my understanding. =-=-=-=-=-=-=- Citrix aims to … Continue reading →

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10 things Linux does better than Windows

Posted on 2008/09/24 by jeff

Source: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/…1 Author: Jack Wallen Throughout my 10+ years of using Linux, I have heard about everything that Windows does better than Linux. So I thought it time to shoot back and remind everyone of what Linux does better than … Continue reading →

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Xen versus VMware

Posted on 2008/09/16 by jeff

Source: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/… Author: Bernard Golden … Even though VMware and Xen both provide an enterprise-focused server virtualization product, Xen’s approach to implementing virtualization has made for some challenges. VMware bases its product on hardware emulation, in which VMware provides a … Continue reading →

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