I find it very funny to see on the net how people are constantly and often inappropriately talking about cloud computing both positively and negatively. Everyone “shoots” their own opinion by calling themselves an expert on this or that. As the title suggests, this is a new “disastrous” event for cloud computing. And I feel […]
In the June-July issue 06-07 of MasterMeeting, a piece on greenIT is published where Barbara reports our initiative “Make the Cloud Green” and reports some speeches of a telephone interview she gave us on that occasion. Master Meeting is a magazine dedicated to the tourism business, it is also a guide that selects the best […]
At the end of the event we report a summary of the fundamental points discussed and addressed. We started with an introduction to the research project from which this first round table meeting was born and we analyzed the greenpeace document highlighting the pages where the errors due to the confusion of the term cloud […]
VMengine, the AWS User Group Naples in collaboration with Eurocloud Italia and the dept. of Computer Science and Systems Engineering of Federico II, invite you to attend the research table on GreenIT, in particular on the optimization of energy consumption of Cloud Providers’ datacenters and on the convenience of using public cloud computing to promote […]
We attended this dutiful event in the beautiful Sheraton Golf2 Hotel in Rome. Below is the agenda: 9.30 Registration of participants 10.00 Welcome and opening of the meeting Luigi Marcocchia, Softway 10.10 How to harness the power of virtualization to transform Data Centers into simplified cloud computing infrastructures, capable of providing advanced, reliable, flexible and […]
Months ago we underlined at the bottom of the article: http://blog.vmengine.net/2008/05/30/marten-mickos-ceo-di-mysql-a-la-sapienza-di-roma/ related to the Roman conference of MySQL at Sapienza, about the future possibilities of creating performance using the new native ZFS filesystem of Solaris and the MySQL database engine. Well something was born, thanks to some features of the phenomenal ZFS filesystem and the […]
As President Barack Obama was sworn in just after 12 noon, the website whitehouse.gov changed, adopting the design and features of the Obama Change.gov team’s transition website. There will be many more changes along the way, and Cloud Computing is a key element of the new administration’s Technology Innovation and Government Reform (TIGR) program. In […]
The First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO – Nebraska, USA) wanted to insure its data center against any power outage. So they built a new “underground” data center in Omaha, lined with concrete. The facility is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, fully operational “off the grid”, not connected to the national electricity grid. “If the […]