• Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS Start-Up Challenge For 2009 - We're looking for the hottest and coolest start-ups and start-up ideas. Developers and entrepreneurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to enter for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.
• Gartner Predict Rise of ‘Cloud Service Brokerages` - As cloud computing environments become more commonplace and complex, users will have a difficult time integrating the various cloud services and ensuring their integrity, according to Gartner. That will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages,” who will essentially negotiate the relationship between the end users and providers and make it easier for businesses to manage their cloud services.
• Zoho’s New Plugin Turns Microsoft Access Databases into Web Apps - ReadWriteEnterprise - To everyone wishing they could use their Microsoft Office Access database to build a Web app, your savior has arrived. Zoho has introduced a plugin to migrate Access databases on to their platform. Once migrated, they can be used to build database applications through the Zoho Creator interface.
• IBM’s Data-Crunching Cloud Plan - Forbes.com - For IBM, as for other IT vendors hyping the trend toward "cloud computing," most real-world products have yet to match promises. Even as the company announced a lofty cloud computing road map last month, that plan–to centralize companies' information technology resources in hyper-efficient data centers either on-site or on IBM's premises–has only taken shape in tame Web software offerings and a testing platform for software developers.

• Ubuntu Server in the cloud: review | Nico and Co. - The past few weeks have been pretty active in terms of people talking about Ubuntu Server Edition and more particularly about the Entreprise Cloud. Here is a loose list of what I have noted:
• CloudComputing.pdf (application/pdf Object) - Sun: Introduction to Cloud Computing Architecture
• Automation Tools to Drive Cloud Computing Journey - Much is said about virtualization penetration, and much weight is given to penetration when discussing where the technology is in terms of acceptance. A recently published survey of 474 companies sponsored by Sun Guard Availability shed new light on the maturity.
• “Easily” setup a monitored Hadoop / Hive Cluster in EC2 with PoolParty - Setting up a scalable Hadoop cluster isn’t easy, but PoolParty makes it easier
  and manageable.

• ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media - Then, this February, Yahoo also announced its first major product that made use of YQL, the Open Data Tables, which allowed developers to create their own table definitions besides the ones already provided by Yahoo. As we reported in March, Yahoo then went ahead and extended YQL with YQL
• CA Aligns With Cisco, VMware To Manage Cloud — Cloud Computing Management Tools — InformationWeek - VMware's vSphere 4 and Cisco's Nexus 1000V distributed virtualized switches will be getting management services from CA.
• Cloud servers for your Perl app - Amazon’s EC2 vs Mosso - Catalyzed.org: A Catalyst and Perl Blog - The big buzz nowadays in the web-application hosting world is cloud servers. Cloud servers are virtual machines that can be deployed quickly and easily by the customer without intervention by the hosting company. They tend to live in very large data centers on clusters of hardware with specialized software designed to automatically manage the allocation, de-allocation and scaling of virtual machines.
• ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: CloudNet & The Case for Enterprise-Ready Virtual Private Clouds - AT&T Labs and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have published a paper called "The Case for Enterprise-Ready Virtual Private Clouds" that continues on my vision for a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). And they even gave me some credit in the paper [see reference 5] — sort of.
• People Over Process » Hacking Big Data - Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop & Cloudera - While at Velocity 2009 this year, I had the chance to sit down and talk with Cloudera’s Jeff Hammerbacher. We talked all about Hadoop, how it’s used, and how the company he’s at, Cloudera, is fitting into the Hadoop community.
• Sequoia, Greylock Take Stake In OpenDNS - It isn’t the sexiest startup in Silicon Valley, but San Francisco based OpenDNS just closed one of the most competitive venture capital deals in recent history. Top tier firms Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners came out the winners. The company will announce a second round of financing from both firms shortly.
• Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS - Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.
• ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Ruv’s Cloud Google Reader Bundle - Ruv's Reader
• Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon Elastic MapReduce Now Available in Europe - pleased to announce Amazon Elastic MapReduce job flows can now be run in our European region. You can launch jobs in Europe by simply choosing the new region from the menu. The jobs will run on EC2 instances in Europe and usage will be billed at those rates.
• GoGrid was Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand) in Magic Quadrant - LISLE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A team of industry leaders in EDA and high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud will be hosting a free workshop in San Francisco, CA coincident with the Design Automation Conference to provide expert training and best practices for users of HPC clusters. Experts from Sun Microsystems, eXludus and Univa UD will lead the lunchtime session, which takes place on July 27th from 12pm to 2pm.

• Thinking Out Cloud: What’s Really Exciting About Cloud Computing - Last week I attended an event in New York organized by Tibco as part of their launch tour for their new cloud offering, Tibco Silver. It was a really fun panel to do with Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services, Mike DiPetrillo from VMWare, Ed Simmons from Deutsche Bank and Sreedhar Kajeepeta from CSC.
• External Cloud Providers Must Be More Than Hardware Pool Providers | Open Source and Cloud Computing - loud computing provides more than scaling. It provides elasticity. That means it can expand needed enterprise software resources and contract those resources that are not needed and It can do all this on demand. On the surface, this looks like a great opportunity for new cloud services businesses to emerge. These providers would basically sell capacity to other businesses that would otherwise have to maintain enough IT to accommodate infrequent but significant spikes in usage traffic. These cloud computing vendors would be providing what is called an external cloud.
• Dustin Amrhein gives Introduction to Cloud Computing for Developers & sorts out IBM’s cloud offerings - Acquia Search is based on the Lucene and Solr distributions of Apache, and essentially works by having Acquia index your site’s content on their computers and then send it with encryption on demand to supply user queries using an integrated Acquia Search module. According to the announcement, Acquia is using Solr server farms on Amazon EC2 to power this on cloud architecture.
• Acquia Launches Cloud-based Solr Search Indexing - Acquia Search is based on the Lucene and Solr distributions of Apache, and essentially works by having Acquia index your site’s content on their computers and then send it with encryption on demand to supply user queries using an integrated Acquia Search module. According to the announcement, Acquia is using Solr server farms on Amazon EC2 to power this on cloud architecture.
• Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com - Microsoft is planning to share details about its pricing and licensing plans for its Azure cloud environment at its Worldwide Partner Conference in mid-July. That’s what we know.
• Technology News: Financial News: Reductive Labs Snaps Up Cash, Pumps Up Puppet - You could say that Kanies talked his way into business. He spent inordinate hours with the Puppet project, writing and speaking at IT conferences about systems automation around the world.
• Part I - Beware the Wolf in Blue Clothing - Appirio - The CIO’s Guide to On-Demand - Its not unexpected, a look back only a few years tells a similar story. When left trailing in disruptive innovation, large legacy vendors muddy the market while trying to play catch up. IBM's push of the private cloud concept is analogous to their and other providers 'leadership' in 'helping' develop web services standards, In reality they created substantial complexity until they could catch up. This led to a bottoms up revolution that brought about alternatives like REST. We are now seeing a dangerous repeat of this pattern, with an even bigger set of stakes - the rate of the cloud computing revolution.
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: Paving the road to Apps adoption in large enterprises - Google Apps has always been a compelling offering for small and medium sized companies, and they've accounted for much of our growth to 1.75 million businesses. Large enterprises can also get great results with Apps, as Fairchild Semiconductor and the dozens of other big companies that have Gone Google have discovered. Still, we appreciate that there have been some boulders along the road to adoption for the largest businesses in the world.

• Part II - Beware the Wolf in Blue Clothing if (typeof(window.attachCsiOnload) != ‘undefined’ && window.attachCsiOnload != null) { w… - In Part I of our blog we shared our thoughts on the debate between public and private clouds. Here we want to share what to expect when entrenched vendors muddy the waters in the cloud (and reissue our offer to a public webinar to debate the topic).
• Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it | The Open Road - CNET News - This is the summary of Survey conducted by onCloudComputing in which the participants were asked only one simple question “What they are looking for in 2009 in relation to Cloud Computing”. So we can also call the following as “Cloud Computing Trends 2009”
• Top Cloud Computing Solutions People are Looking For in 2009 | Cloud Hosting Journal - This is the summary of Survey conducted by onCloudComputing in which the participants were asked only one simple question “What they are looking for in 2009 in relation to Cloud Computing”. So we can also call the following as “Cloud Computing Trends 2009”
• Questioning Oracle’s Cloud - Forbes.com - When Larry Ellison announced last month that Oracle was going to embrace cloud computing, he put forth ideas that expand on the current models. With the Sun acquisition and the rest of its formidable portfolio, Oracle has all the pieces of the puzzle to do something revolutionary. The key question: Will Oracle have to clean up its fragmented collection of applications to achieve its vision?
• Why my company uses Amazon’s EC2 cloud - amazon, amazon ec2 - CIO - Running an Internet startup remains a tricky business, says link — sharing service ShareThis. During the past two years, more than 110,000 sites have added the ShareThis embedded link, allowing readers to forward articles or videos to their friends. The popularity has made the company's data requirements enormous: it handles up to 12,000 requests a second and 130 million page views every day.
• Open Source is Infiltrating the Enterprise - O’Reilly Radar - There's a persistent perception that open source software is being ignored in the enterprise, that IT management fears it and it ends up being more costly to deploy than proprietary solutions. That's certainly the perception that some major software vendors would like you to have.
• BERNAMA - HP, MIMOS To Collaborate On Cloud Computing Research & Education - HP Malaysia and Mimos have formalised their collaboration on the global multi-data centre — an open source test bed created by HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo Inc — called Open Cirrus.
• RightScale and Managed Clouds « Data Center Knowledge - At Structure 09 we met with RightScale CEO and founder Michael Crandell, who talked about his company’s niche in “managing clouds” on multiple platforms (including Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine and FlexiScale), as well as trends in enterprise interest in cloud computing.
• Storms Ahead for Cloud Computing Start-Ups, Well-Entrenched Players? — Seeking Alpha - I moderated a Cisco panel last week at Cisco Live! and it was readily apparent that enterprise cloud still required plenty of work from vendors and enterprise IT. No one was ready to endorse either a centralized or decentralized architecture (a move to the powerful intercloud); perhaps it’s because the network isn’t ready for infrastructure 2.0 demands.
• Three debates that will benefit cloud computing | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News - Cloud computing is one of those operations models that has already started to disrupt the way in which everyone consumes software. It is also starting to have an effect (albeit tiny right now) on the way in which people and organizations consume (or don't consume) hardware. Cloud computing has become a part of the core information technology "fabric" of many.

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• HighlyAvailableLAMP - Community Ubuntu Documentation - In this tutorial we will set up a highly available server providing Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) services to clients. Should a server become unavailable, services provided by our cluster will continue to be available to client systems.
• New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers - Besides providing insight into the nature of primes, the finding could also have applications in areas such as fraud detection and stock market analysis.
• Fundamentals Course - Good OpenSourceInTheHood stuff
• Academic Earth - Introduction to Algorithms - You can learn to be a programmer MIT style…

• 11 Must Have Portable Applications on USB/Removable Drives || Technology Nerd -
• The exploding Internet - Wowza!
• 25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online - Virtual Education Websites | AceOnlineSchools.com - Online Education - Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible.