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Saturday Mar 17, 2012
Amazon cloud: half-a-million Linux servers
Interesting speculation on the make-up of Amazon's cloud:
Amazon EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million Linux servers | ZDNet :We know that Linux on servers is big and getting bigger. We also knew that Linux, thanks to open-source cloud programs like Eucalyptus and OpenStack, was growing fast on clouds. What he hadn’t know that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), had close to half-a-million servers already running on a Red Hat Linux variant.
Huang Liu, a Research Manager with Accenture Technology Lab with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering whose has done extensive work on cloud-computing, analyzed EC2’s infrastructure and found that Amazon EC2 is currently made up of 454,400 servers.
Dave in Web Development
07:18AM Mar 17, 2012
Wednesday Nov 19, 2008
CommunityOne call for papers is open X 2
Next year there will be two CommunityOne events in the US of A; one in New York City on March 18 and the other, coinciding with JavaOne week in June 1 in San Francisco. Here's the call for papers link. The call closes on December 11.
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