Cloud Computing Economics

Recently Eric Greenwood from OnlineStorage.org asked, me “..Do you have any opinions on how cloud computing companies are going to effect the online storage service industry? A view from an economic mind like yours would be very interesting!” Aren´t online storage service providers themselves also cloud computing companies? I am a heavy (not yet paying) user of [...]

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We were recently given a VirtualBox image configured to run canadian online pharmacy the HPCC benchmark suite. The code to determine the OS architecture is pretty naive, and we paid for it. The code simply checked for the presence of the substring ‘amd64′ in the kernel name. The image didn’t have it, so it was [...]

I’ve just finished my first working draft of a python API to describe and execute an EC2 deployment with a controlled lifecycle. This is part of the larger Desktop-to-Cloud (D2C) tadalafil project, aimed at assisting researchers with deploying scientific, job-based applications to the cloud.