The cloud platform

Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon to the clear blue there, through and beyond the clouds. Do you think you would like to float on a cloud? How about “Pennies from Heaven?” Are we there yet? Not? Well … allow me a moment to illuminate your spirit … through the cloud.

The cloud as we know it; an Internet metaphor based on how the Internet is represented in computer network diagrams; it is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided. SaaS (Service as software) over the Internet, as I mentioned in previous posts, is the driving force.

For the sake of edification Microsoft is bringing its time-tested strategy to the cloud. Incorporate more of your office software to convince companies to use your improved technologies. Intel Lurks Forward and Brings Its Brand to the Next Generation of Online Productivity Platform with “Microsoft Office 365”.

More than fifty-eight current and potential cloud computing users have formed a “Open Data Center Alliance”. The actual number is reported in seventy participating companies … and it continues to grow. A roadmap on cloud interoperability is projected for the year 2011. This latter undertaking would likely cost companies (to a dependent provider) about $ 100 billion over the next several years. This data is derived from Mr. Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s data center group, according to Information Week Magazine’s Charles Babcock. The price of fifty billion dollars a year is a combined expense of the company’s seventy-member team. Interoperability has added speed to project development and is likely to drive computer chip sales for Intel (an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, an AMERICAN Global technology company) and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). The rationale behind the push orchestrated by Intel is to establish best standards and practices that help businesses and cloud performance initiatives in the future, say Skaugen and Babcock.

Many of the group’s members include National Australia Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Marriott, Lockheed Martin, China Life, UBS, Teramark, and BMW. They profess to provide cloud guidance as they build data centers for private and public cloud interoperability by 2015. This group of partners also intends to address infrastructure, management, data security, governance and definition of cloud services.

An “Office 365” productivity platform will include the combination of Office Online Web Apps with Sharepoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online. These service-based applications will offer versions of Office Word, Excel, Power Point, email, voicemail, business social media, instant messaging, web portals, extranets, voice conferencing, video conferencing, and web conferencing, as reported by Doug Henschen of Information. Week magazine. The Office 365 and Office Professional Plus options can cost between $ 2.00 and $ 24.00 per month per user.

As for where the alliance will focus its technology issues, based on the business workload, they plan to address the issues by addressing minimizing latency operations. They also plan to address minimizing energy use within the cloud data center. “The focus will be on a five-cloud usage model. They include the unified network required for cloud computing, where multiple network protocols for communication and storage are fused together to reduce the number of ports and the amount of equipment needed to establish a cloud, “according to Skaugen and Babcock.

From cloud to rack space, cloud servers are an affordable and easy-to-use cloud computing infrastructure. Each cloud is a fully customizable virtualized server instance that a user can start, maintain, and control with full root access. Each server gives users full root access to the Linux distribution of their choice. Users pay by the hour, depending on the size of the server they use.

Cloud servers bring the power of the cloud to the traditional model based on server hosting. A cloud server provides total flexibility to run anything from a Java website to a Ruby On Rails application. This service is included in the SLA (Service Level Agreement) and is part of the contract together with the terms of service and is subject to the terms and conditions set out in a contract document.

Intel’s involvement is a sign of how consistently cloud data centers trust the X86 architecture development project. Microprocessor maker IBM built its Research Triangle Park on X86 servers.

A server is a software program or the computer on which a particular program runs. Provides a specific type of service to client software that runs on the same computer or on other computers on a specific network. The client provides the graphical user interface (GUI) and performs some or all of the processing of requests from the server, which maintains the data and processes the requests. It is an important element of modern operating systems and network designs.

Now … do you feel like you are floating on a cloud?

Cloud computing is here to stay … at least until the next gust of wind arrives.

Until next time …