August 26th, 2009 • Comments Off on Quotes and pictures about the Cloud
For an upcoming presentation about OCCI and RESERVOIR I was looking for some nice quotes and pictures I could use. The quotes and pictures should be in relation to Cloud Computing and OCCI. My favorite quote (I’m using several in the presentation) would be from Henry Ford:
“If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.”
The picture I liked most was taken from http://infreemation.net/cloud-computing-linear-utility-or-complex-ecosystem/ – It shows what Cloud Computing is: everything and a kitchen sink:
I’ll share the presentation as soon as the GridKa School event is over.
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August 24th, 2009 • Comments Off on What Happiness is…
When I started listening to the audio book of ‘Hector and the search for happiness’ which is written by Francois Lelord I didn’t expect much…But it was a very pleasant 5 hours car-ride when getting home. In total Hector the protagonist comes up with 23 lectures of what happiness is. I just wanted to add #24:
Happiness is when you know that you are happy
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August 12th, 2009 • Comments Off on In the clouds – busy weeks
It have been some busy weeks. But great things have happen over the past weeks. The OCCI working group which tries to deliver one of the first standards in the cloud community is moving along very well. We have almost finished our first document describing the use cases and requirements for a Cloud API. This API should be capable of deploying, managing and monitoring virtual workloads (like virtual machines) in a Cloud. The draft can be found on our website: http://www.occi-wg.org. BTW there is a small one-pager describing OCCI. The draft of the specification can also be found on the OCCI website.
Next to that the cloud community is engaging to work together on cloud standards. The wiki on http://cloud-standards.org shows this. There is a nice overview (which might need some refinement) demonstrating where which standard might apply (I took if from the Wiki so it might be outdated).
Positioning of Cloud standards
Overall it seems that the work from SNIA, DMTF and OGF is coming together pretty nicely. For the last days I have been working on presentations and papers to present the work done in OCCI and RESERVOIR. For example a paper forcloudcomp 09 describing howto use OCCI to get RESERVOIR and the SLA@SOI project interoperate. Also upcoming are talks about RESERVOIR, the Cloud in general and OCCI at GridKa school, Sun HPC workshop and other smaller events. Also a poster about the Cloud and the Sun Grid Engine, Service Domain Manager and RESERVOIR is on its way. So great times to be in the clouds…
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