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Discussion on the state of cloud computing and open source software that helps build, manage, and deliver infrastructure-as-a-service.

7 Requirements for Building Cloud Infrastructure

Posted by mrhinkle
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on Wednesday, 22 December 2010
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Peder and Sheng have written a good article for CIO on the "7 Requirements for Building Your Cloud Infrastructure" Here are the

highlights. Visit CIO for the fulll article which is well worth the...

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Managing a Secure Multi-Tenant Cloud Environment with NetApp and Cloud.com

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Last week at VMworld 2010 we demonstrated how customers can leverage the innovation of Cloud.com CloudStack integrated on a NetApp, Cisco and VMware cloud environment. The whole SMTC project at NetApp is an aggressive push to address one of the main inhibitors of cloud computing in the enterprise and it is clear they...

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Top 7 Requirements from Infrastructure Cloud Providers

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Right now, a huge number of service providers are making plans to launch computing clouds, and I thought it would be interesting to outline some of the requirements I often hear from prospective cloud providers here.

1. "Our clouds need to run on inexpensive storage."
- This is a huge issue for most service providers. The storage industry is built on the back of...

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The CloudStack™project is in the process of moving to the Apache Foundation as a podling in the Apache Incubator. Going forward CloudStack will be developed and governed in the Apache way. CloudStack is available under the Apache License 2.0