Michael Sheehan's GoGrid Blog
The Cloud just got another potential injection of PR from Apple as well with
their announcement of MobileMe. Apple has brought a new technology term, the
'Cloud' - previously reserved for developers, IT managers and the like - to
the main-stream public. We all know that the term 'Cloud Computing' is
relatively new to the Technology buzz. But just how new is it?
I spent some time analyzing search trends of different computing keywords to
try to put everything in perspective. Google trends is a nice too that gives
insight into broad search patterns.
We all know that the term “Cloud Computing” is relatively new to the
Technology buzz. But just how new is it? For starters, I ran a quick
comparison of “Cloud Computing,” “Grid Computing” and “Utility
Computing”.
The term Grid Computing has been around for a while (even before Google
Trends... (more)
This insightful post by Thorsten von Eicken recently got me thinking. The
term “Cloud Computing” is much too vague. People want and need
“slots” or “segments” where they can group things. This is how the
mind operates through categorization and ordering. So, to possibly help with
this, I would like to propose a “Cloud Pyramid” to help differentiate the
various Cloud offerings out there.
There are other ways to display this hierarchy, however I elected to show it
as a pyramid. For example, if one were to weight the graphic by the number of
providers within each segment, the pyra... (more)
Michael Sheehan's "GoGrid" Blog
There seems to be a lot of debate around different types of Computing Terms
being used to describe server and hosting solutions. In fact, in the past,
the blogosphere seemed to throw around terms like Grid, Cloud, Utility,
Distributed and Cluster computing almost interchangeably. But, as of this
revision, one term is rising to the top: Cloud Computing. (See recent trend
analysis here.)
The definitions vary from source to source, author to author. While I cannot
(and will not) attempt to articulate the end-all definition, I can write
about how I v... (more)
GoGrid Session at Cloud Expo
A few months ago, we introduced MyGSIs (personal server images) which allow
users to create custom personal GSI (GoGrid Server Images) with all of their
code, applications and data.
These personal server images are then compressed and stored in GoGrid’s
Cloud Storage for use later instantiating copies of those MyGSIs within a
user’s GoGrid cloud.
Building upon that framework, backend structure and concept, we have released
Partner GSIs and the GoGrid Exchange.
A Partner GSI appears in the same list of servers or sandboxes available for
deployment.
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New Relic announced that their RPM product supports GoGrid Cloud Hosting
Infrastructure and is available for a limited time with preferential pricing.
RPM is an on-demand tool that companies can use to optimize, monitor and
troubleshoot their Java, Ruby and JRuby applications within a variety of
environments, which now includes the GoGrid cloud.
With New Relic’s RPM running on GoGrid, users can monitor many aspects of a
Ruby, Java or JRuby application, detect performance problems and eventually
drill down to uncover root causes of any performance issues. RPM also cleanly
integra... (more)
Michael Sheehan is the Technology Evangelist for Cloud Computing Infrastructure provider GoGrid and ServePath and is an avid technology pundit. GoGrid is the cloud hosting division of ServePath Dedicated Hosting, a company with extensive expertise and experience in web hosting infrastructure.
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