On Cloud Computing

This post is a collection of interesting links on the subject of Cloud Computing (CC). Please feel free to add your links by submitting a comment.


U.S. Department of Energy Asks, Is Cloud Computing Fast Enough for Science?
With cloud computing gaining acceptance in the business world, the U.S. Department of Energy wants to know if cloud computing can also meet the needs of the scientific computing. The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has launched Magellan, a cloud computing testbed to explore this question, with facilities that will test the effectiveness of cloud computing for scientific projects..........



Virtualization and cloud security modeled on NAC - introduces the use of Network Access Control to address security issue in CC.
      Network Access Control - a method of controlling network security.

Australian Cost of Data Breach report released - "PGP CEO Phillip Dunkelberger told iTnews that organisations operating in the cloud incurred higher costs because of issues to do with territorial jurisdictions, and additional investigation and consulting fees."  


Cloud computing putting data at increased risk

"Hacking attempts double in two years, says latest PwC report. Nearly two thirds of companies have detected attempts to break into their networks in the past year, double that of two years ago, according to the latest biennial Information Security Breaches Survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)."

A list of Cloud related technologies, providers,etc

http://www.cloudsigma.com 
http://gridspot.com 
http://www.profitbricks.com 
https://developers.google.com/appengine/kb/billing#time_granularity_instance_pricing 
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine 
“50% of the time the site is down in seconds, even when we’ve contacted site owners 
and they’ve told us everything will be fine. It’s often an unprecedented amount of traf-fic, and they don’t have the required capacity.” Stephen Fry, actor and widely followed 
Twitter user, London, U.K.; http://tinyurl.com/StephenFrySeconds 
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/servers/techdetails/ 
http://www.gogrid.com 
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine 
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/newsletters/2012/08/14/august-2012/ 
http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ 
https://developers.google.com/appengine/kb/billing 
Greg D’Alesandre, Google App Engine; http://tinyurl.com/D-Alesandre 
https://www.dotcloud.com/pricing.html 
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/ 
http://tinyurl.com/cloud-price-war 
http://openstack.org 
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services, slide: “Amazon Cycle of Innovation”; 
http://tinyurl.com/james-hamilton 
http://spotcloud.com 
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/marketplace/ 
http://www.cloudsigma.com/cloud-computing/what-is-the-cloud/171 
http://www.cloudsigma.com/about-us/press-releases/242 
http://tinyurl.com/6fusion-CME 
http://docs.dotcloud.com/0.9/faq/ 

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/marketplace/