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Cloud Computing and Virtualization Resources

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Mark in Cloud Computing, Featured Articles, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Virtualization - 2 Comments

Cloud Computing ResourcesI have been a little bit stubborn on my concession that cloud computing is really going to be the wave of the future. Though lately I have been playing with a lot of cloud related technologies and am hooked. Spin up 10 (or 100) Linux servers in a minute from a web page with no real systems management skills and then you start seeing the power of cloud computing. As I try to get smarter on cloud computing I compiled the following list of resources that I have found helpful.  If you have a great cloud resource please feel free to let me know what I am missing on.

Cloud and Virtualization Guides and Whitepapers

  • Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization: Part I – From 2008 but still a decent primer on virtualizaton
  • The Ars Technica Guide to I/O Virtualization – From February 2010 very nice thorough intro to I/O virutalizaiton
  • A Guide to Getting Started with Cloud Computing - Oracle/Sun has a nice overview of cloud computing (peppered with their products and suggested strategies of course)
  • Cloud Computing Use Cases v 3.0 – Good collaborative paper from the folks at the Open Cloud Manifesto

Various Cloud Resources (Podcasts, Mailing Lists, Wikis)

  • Cloud computing Podcast – A good podcast on cloud computing
  • Federal Cloud Computing Wiki – U.S. government cloud computing resources, informal but interesting
  • Cloud Computing Wiki – Not all that organized but some nice nuggets in the links
  • IT Management Podcast – All things system management but lost of cloudy content.
  • Reservoir – Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers is a European Union FP7 funded project that will enable massive scale deployment and management of complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies.
  • Cloud Computing Email List: An often lively email list discussing cloud computing.
  • Cloud Computing Blogs & Resources. An excellent and big list of cloud resources.
  • Cloud Computing Portal: A community edited database for making the vendor selection process easier.
  • List of Cloud Platforms, Providers, and Enablers.
  • datacenterknowledge.com’s Recap: More than 70 Industry Blogs : A nice set of blog’s for: Data Center, Web Hosting, Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloud Computing
  • High Scalability’s List of Cloud Blogs – It’s really good list of cloud computing resources

Cloud Computing Blogs

  • CloudDB.info – Cloud Computing News and Info from a Database Geek!  Written by Lewis Cunningham.
  • CloudEnterprise.info – Dmitry Sotnikov news, analysis, and opinions on Cloud Computing and SaaS in the Enterprise.
  • CloudSecurity.org: Craig Balding covers -a Fortune 500 banking exec covers -  What is Cloud Computing Security?  What are the risks, threats and countermeasures?  How do we ’secure the Cloud’.
  • Cloud Talk:  John M Willis blog on IT management and Cloud technology. Also, check out the Cloud Cafe Podcasts
  • dba-Research Blog – The DSA (Distributed Systems Architecture) Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid
  • High Scalability – Nice blog and resource for scalable,  high availability computing
  • Elastic Vapor – Reuven Cohen’s popular cloud computing blog
  • GoGrid Blog: Blog with product and industry news related to Cloud Computing and GoGrid
  • IT Management and Cloud Blog: John Willis’ personal comments and podcasts
  • Head In The Clouds:  Written by Bert Armijo, SVP at 3tera, includes product info as well as comments on industry events
  • SpoutingShite: Ross Cooney, MD of Rozmic. Cloud Computing isn’t about technology; it’s about enabling your technology led business model with lower capital investment
  • TodoOnDemand: Blog about SaaS, Cloud Computing, On Demand Software, Business models, etc…
  • dev2ops: Blog by DTO solutions  and open source developers of ControlTier cloud and data center automationexperts
  • Cloud Musings – Kevin Jackson from DoD contractor NJVC talks about clouds
  • News and Ideas about Cloud Computing: Edward M. Goldberg reports about ideas and updates to the Cloud Community.
  • ReliaCloud: One of the largest cloud platforms in the United States, on news and updates in the cloud world.
  • Randy Bias – Cloud Scaling blog from people who implement cloud infrastructure for a living
  • Rightscale Blog – By the people who bringyou the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform
  • VMBlog – Excellent source of Virtualizaton and  Cloud Computing News
  • VMware Community Blogs – Blogs about virtualization and all things VMware

Twitter

  • A list of cloud computing Twitterati

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2 comments on “Cloud Computing and Virtualization Resources”

  1. Managing Virtual Machine and Cloud Sprawl | LongitudeTech Blog says:
    February 16, 2010 at 2:44 am

    [...] can all agree on. Virtual machines (VMs) can tend to grow out of control, however, now that it’s so easy to create them. This should not be all that surprising, but many small to medium businesses are also dabbling in [...]

  2. Links 17/2/2010: Calculate Linux 10.2 Released, SimplyMEPIS 8.5 @ Beta 5 | Boycott Novell says:
    February 17, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    [...] Cloud Computing and Virtualization Resources [...]

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