Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
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Re: Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
#2Most relevant line from the article: "Unfortunately, the coining of new jargon is likely to proceed even faster than the evolution of computing markets."
Re: Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
#3I think the biggest problem right now is the lack of standardization of formats. I know that when I was writing sections in our VMM we didn't really think about VM formats. The thing is that your data representation tends to be heavily influenced by the VMM design and therefore VMMs with different designs tend to have different data formats. Hypothetically it's possible to develop a standardized format, but we'll see how far that goes practically.
Re: Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
#4Meta-point: I'm surprised at how accurate this article was in terms of the way it explained the concepts and the jargon. It seems to be rare in non-tech publications.
Re: Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
#5Meta-point: I'm surprised at how accurate this article was in terms of the way it explained the concepts and the jargon. It seems to be rare in non-tech publications.
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Re: Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
#6Most relevant line from the article: "Unfortunately, the coining of new jargon is likely to proceed even faster than the evolution of computing markets."
Would you rather we called it mainframe computing or the internet? Wouldn't that be the wrong "jargon" to apply to amazon web services and their ilk.
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#7Meta-point: I'm surprised at how accurate this article was in terms of the way it explained the concepts and the jargon. It seems to be rare in non-tech publications.
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I don't think there's enough that goes on in tech (at that low level of detail) to create an economist like magazine.
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#8I wasn't familiar with the "follow the moon" approach of having tasks move around the planet to be in places where demand is low, cooling cheap, and electricity cheap (if they use time-of-use rates).
It makes perfect sense now that I think of it..
Anybody knows of companies/organisations that do that? What kind of tasks is this useful for?
Re: Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
#9I think the biggest problem right now is the lack of standardization of formats. I know that when I was writing sections in our VMM we didn't really think about VM formats. The thing is that your data representation tends to be heavily influenced by the VMM design and therefore VMMs with different designs tend to have different data formats. Hypothetically it's possible to develop a standardized format, but we'll see…
VMWare's open virtualization format is making progress on this front: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/ovf.h...
Re: Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer
#10The spot prices for the large EC2 instance seem really close to the price of on-demand instances: $0.34 from the N. Virginia data center. I guess Amazon will not be reducing their prices anytime soon.