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Re: [LUG] (head in the) Cloud computing

 

Hi Tom,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 03:28:14PM +0100, Tom Potts wrote:
> It just occurred to me that if the cloud hosting 'cluster' is resilient and 
> asymmetrical then this could be just what I've been looking for...
> Does anyone know about the server (cloud) side software?

What do you want to know?  Amazon EC2 is probably the best known, and
it is built on top of Xen and a lot more besides.

There is an open source API-compatible effort called Eucalyptus.

The lower layers (resilient storage etc) could be built on many
different technologies.

Cheers,
Andy

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