Thursday 11 March 2010
Cloud computing is a concept of integration and virtualization of heterogeneous IT resources. It is an implementation of distributed computing which comprises sharing and managing usage of resources. It reduces the complexity of the computing process and provides X (which can be software, platform, or infrastructure) as a service (XaaX) or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). For example, the demand for computing power will vary for a retail outlet who will rent out additional server space from clouds (such as Amazon Web Services) in shopping season
The report forecasts the market size of Global Cloud Computing Services Market over the period 2008-2011. It elaborates the key trends in the Global Cloud Computing Services Market, and segments the total market by cloud computing options. Further, the report also provides the segmentation of Cloud Computing by components and talks about Cloud Hosting segmentation. It also profiles some of the key vendors operating in the Global Cloud Computing Services Market.
TechNavio Insights is a set of reports based on TechNavio – a market intelligence platform for the IT industry. It builds on the intelligence available within TechNavio, and leverages on the custom research experience of the ‘Technology Navigators’. TechNavio is built on years of experience of Infiniti Research in deep dive custom research and consulting for over 30 Fortune 500 companies and numerous large and mid-sized companies.
1. Introduction
2. Market Size and forecast
3. Segmentation by Cloud Computing Options
4. Segmentation of Cloud Computing by Components
5. Cloud Hosting Segmentation
6. Market Trends
7. List of Some of the Vendors in Cloud Computing
Akamai
Joyent
Amazon Web Services
Layered Tech
Terremark
Rackspace
Fortress ITX
3tera
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List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1.1: Global Cloud Computing Services market (2008-2011)
Exhibit 1.2: Global Cloud Computing Infrastructure market (2008-2011)
Exhibit 3.1: Segmentation by Cloud Computing Options (2008)
Exhibit 4.1: IT Cloud Spending Break-up for Different Components (2008)
Exhibit 5.1: IT Cloud Hosting Segmentation (in 2008)
Database in the Cloud
Joyent, the leading vendor in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, announced today that it is taking the proven performance and reliability of Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database to a whole new level by offering optimizations to the Joyent Cloud for MySQL. Joyent and Sun’s database group have teamed up to create Virtual Appliance templates for MySQL.
Joyent’s Virtual Appliance for MySQL is configured to maximize the open source database’s performance on Joyent’s powerful, secure and stable virtualization technology. Performance benchmarks (http://www.joyent.com/mysql) demonstrate that Joyent’s Virtual Appliance for MySQL can deliver 3 times the number of Transactions per Second than comparable deployments of XEN-based clouds, such as Amazon’s EC2.
“Running Read-Only tests, our internal benchmarks show that a 1GB Virtual Appliance for MySQL in the Joyent cloud can perform 1,245 transactions per second with 8 threads,” said Jason Hoffman, Joyent CTO and Founder. “A more expensive 7.5 GB large instance on Amazon EC2 only manages 425 transactions per second with the same 8 threads.”
Joyent has made it easy to launch a Virtual Appliance for MySQL as a single instance or as part of a Web-scale architecture.
“MySQL is pre-installed and optimized on the Joyent Cloud,” said Hoffman. “From the minute you get your login credentials, you are ready to go: deployment could not be easier. Dual-Master or Master-Slave configurations will also soon be available as pre-defined architectures.”
The Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL is available based on a typical cloud model. Users can scale up and down when they need to — and pay for only the infrastructure they use. There are no contracts to lock-in users. Additionally, the Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL Enterprise is fully supported by the MySQL database experts at Sun.
“MySQL is the most-used database in today’s Cloud environments,” said Rich Nigro, MySQL Managed Hosting Business Manager, Sun Microsystems. “We are delighted to see that Joyent is making this dedicated MySQL offering available to users of the popular Joyent Cloud.”
The Joyent Cloud has many customers benefiting from MySQL, and there are several case studies of how the optimized implementation has driven application performance, operational stability and value.
“Context Optional provides scalable solutions for brand marketing across social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter,” said Rafi Jacoby, Director of Engineering at Context Optional. “We’ve built and deployed viral applications for Kraft, Toyota, McDonald’s, MTV/Viacom, and many other Fortune 500 brands using MySQL running on the Joyent Cloud. We’ve been impressed with performance and uptime, with several databases having run more than a billion queries with no downtime.”
MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, communications networks, and commercial software. At http://www.mysql.com, Sun provides corporate users with premium subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.
About Joyent, Inc.
Joyent is a vendor of ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS), a.k.a Cloud Computing. Joyent provides a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to buying and running your own IT infrastructure, while still providing all the security, cost stability, and enterprise-grade performance of a dedicated private data center. The Joyent Cloud is built using the company’s unique networking and virtualization technology, the Joyent Accelerator. Joyent’s shared hosting, virtual appliances, free developer programs and Cloud Computing products leverage the Joyent Accelerator to provide our customers with unparalleled Cloud Computing performance and value.
Joyent was founded in 2004 with a seed investment from co-founder and CEO David Young and Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel. Since then, Joyent has grown organically and has been completely funded by revenue. Joyent’s customers include LinkedIn, Major League Baseball, Gilt.com, Facebook, and 20,000 other companies ranging from small development shops to large Fortune 500 enterprise users. Joyent powers 25% of the daily application traffic on Facebook. www.joyent.com
LegalTorrents provides a complete hosting and distribution solution for impendent artists and media producers for broadcast quality media. This service uses cloud-computing infrastructure and peer-to-peer distribution to dramatically reduce the cost for distribution of digital entertainment media, such as music, movies, television, podcasts and books and other content. LegalTorrents will end its beta testing and launch the service to the public using the Joyent Cloud. LegalTorrents has picked Joyent to provide a flexible, powerful infrastructure for low cost media distribution. Future plans for the community include expanding the amount of hosted content, adding capacity to the network for distribution, and increasing the size and involvement of the community members participating in content selection and discovery.
Matson Systems is a California based technology company, with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto that builds community-oriented web-based systems focused on peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, data sharing, and informatics. They implement white-label distribution solutions for fully automated, ultra-low-cost video and media distribution as a direct alternative to streaming technologies. Joyent provides on-demand applications, compute, storage, and services to teams around the world. The ease with which Joyent’s solution scales to meet increased server demands allows end-user, startups and developers to focus on their business instead of their servers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Marin County, California, Joyent serves customers around the globe in multiple languages and time zones.
list cloud computing providers 2009
List of Top “Cloud Computing Solution Providers to Watch in 2009″ By onCloudComputing.com
Cloud Offers Completely Controlled, Reliable, Cost-effective & Flexible Instances. Build Websites, Servers and Storage that Scale Instantly on Demand. We have listed the most prominent and growing players in Cloud Computing.Surely it will help you to Chose the Best Cloud Computing Provider for your Needs.
2009 is an important year as far as Cloud Computing is concerned. Overall worldwide IT spending is expected to decrease by 3.8 percent in 2009, but certain parts of the market such as Cloud Services will see explosive growth. Global cloud services revenue is on pace to surpass $56.3 billion in 2009, rising 21.3 percent from 2008 whereas the worldwide IT spending would reach $3.2 trillion, down about 3.8 percent from the $3.4 trillion spent in 2008.
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Here is the List of Top “Cloud Computing Solution Providers to Watch in 2009″
Cloud Slam '09
This conference is the global cloud computing event, covering latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing.
Cloud Slam ‘09 will feature panel discussions and presentations by over 100 pioneers of the cloud computing community. Keynote speakers include Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com, Simon Crosby, founder and CTO of XenSource/ Citrix Systems, Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform, Hal Stern, SVP of global systems engineering at Sun Microsystems, Maximilian Ahrens, CTO of Zimory, and Jayshree Ullal, president and CEO of Arista Networks. Other distinguished speakers will represent Google, Amazon, Cassatt, EMC, Cisco, Trend Micro, Forrester Research, Gartner, RightScale, 3Leaf Systems, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, NetApp, F5 Networks, Nirvanix, Desktone, rPath, Joyent, Elastra, Appistry, SOASTA, 451 Group, Rackspace, Cordys, Booz Allen Hamilton and an array of equally esteemed innovators
