Second day of the Open Grid Forum Meeting just started. Currently there are presentations about ‘Grid Application Experiences’. After the break at 11am it is time for the Cloud Interface API BoF session. So more information is going to follow. For now some photos from yesterday evening and this morning.
Today the Open Grid Forum opened it’s gates here in Catania, Italy. For now nothing real spectacular has been going on. Some presentations about great software solutions like Gridway or Opennebula. The Keynotes and opening talks have yet to start after lunch.
The location is quite great (Attached some pictures). seems to be an old industrial area which they reused as a conference and cultural center. A cinema is also integrate. Quite nice…
From now on I do not state this question anymore. It will ask instead: What is not a Cloud? Any sometimes you can get the feeling the answer is nothing 🙂
I strive not to say that this is cloud computing: but backing up your data online is a very nice idea. Sadly enough HP’s upline.com will close it’s doors soon. Now it’s time to look at the other players. I still now of fabrik.com and mozy.com. Both offering free online backup up to 2GB and unlimited for a little few.
Still the question is: is this cloud computing? I say no! This is an online service. Do not sell everything in this hype 🙂
OpenNebula is now part of the Ubuntu Server distribution. Great news, hope to see other products there also in near future. On the development blog of the team is a nice entry about using open nebula on Ubuntu: http://blog.dsa-research.org/?p=130 The title might be a little bit misleading though…
Also Borja, a former collegaue of mine, got a new version of Haizea announced: http://blog.dsa-research.org/?p=132