From Liming Liu of www.cloudcomputingchina.com, check out: Cloud Computing Introduction. Nicely done, and is an indication of how fast this market is changing. Finally.
Many congratulations to my good friend Moshe Bar and his team over at (stealth-mode startup) Qumranet . Techworld reports that the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) project has been accepted into the 2.6.20 version of the Linux kernel distribution. KVM is an Open Source kernel driver that basically allows a Linux kernel to host virtual machines, as plain old Linux processes, that can run Linux or Windows (or other x86-based operating systems). It runs only on hardware that support Intel's VT instruction set (which is fine) and will soon support the AMD-V instruction set as well. This is cool for a number of reasons. It's Open Source, released under the GPL. It basically turns the Linux that we all know and love into a "hypervisor". Linux-as-hypervisor makes sense because Linux already knows how to manage devices, memory, processes, multi-cores, etc. VMware ESX is, essentially, a "hypervisor" - a small kernel, built on Linux as it turns out, that
Let’s look at some of the Benefits of Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS):
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Documents can be made accessible from any location, any terminal, to any person.
Easily scalable – ‘Cloud’ computing resources can be expanded in hours instead of waiting days for new servers, new users can be added instantaneously.
Safe and Reliable – Clouds are often hosted by the largest IT companies in the Industry – Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco – in high quality data centers, and data transmission is encrypted for maximum security.
Always up to date – SaaS (Software as a Service) applications are always up to date – eliminating the need to perform individual software updates on computers throughout your company
http://www.cloud.in/benifits-of-cloud-computing/
Perhaps the very first blog where the benefits of cloud are explained in the most simple way. Thank you Rich.
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