Friday, February 26, 2010

Takeaway- "Cloud Computing: Balancing Economics & Innovation"-NASSCOM Friday's 2.0 Session

Hello All,

Below are the highlights of the "Cloud Computing" Session held at Infosys campus on 10th July.The session was led by Bhavin Raichura and Srini Prabhala, both from Infosys.

  • Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet
  • Concepts of private and public clouds
  • Different players in cloud computing services.Major service providers are Amazon,Microsoft,IBM,Google.
  • Types of services provided by these players
    • Infrastructure as a service
    • Platform as a service
    • Software as a service
    • Storage as a service
  • Economics of clouding computing

  • Risks involved in cloud computing
    • Crowded service providers space
    • Technology Platform,availability & maturity
    • Security,Data Privacy and Data Ownership

Visit the below link to gain more insight about the seminar http://wwww.infosysblogs.com/cloudcomputing/

Regards,

Vinay Singh
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Thanks Vinay for sharing your thoughts. I am sending one more link in author is talking about challenges of load testing in the cloud environment.

Load Testing from the Cloud

http://www.webperformanceinc.com/load_testing/blog/2009/06/load-testing-from-the-cloud/

Recommendations

If you’re going to use cloud instances as load engines with Load Tester, these are our recommendations:

  1. Use high-CPU instances to avoid physical cpu contention as much as possible
  2. Use more load engines to counteract bandwidth limitations
  3. Test your load engines before the test if you can, to spot any obvious problem engines
  4. Spread the load engines across availability zones and providers to increase independence
  5. Treat cloud-base load test results with some skepticism, and repeat the tests to increase accuracy
  6. Utilize low-bandwidth-usage time periods for cloud testing when you can
  7. Keep your cloud images on the same upgrade cycle as your other internet-facing servers.

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