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VMware in the cloud
April 4th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Amazon currently permits VMware users to import their existing VMware images and convert them into AWS-compatible AMIs. There are only three caveats: (a) the machine must be shut down before importing, (b) it must have less than 1TB of virtual harddrive, and (c) it must be running Windows Server 2008. That last caveat is the…
Amazon dedicated hardware
March 28th, 2011 by Richard Holland
This morning Amazon Web Services announced Dedicated Instances which are normal cloud instances but running on hardware that is exclusive for the customer. In other words, if you start up one of these, there is zero chance of someone else in another instance on the same machine hacking into yours by breaking through the hypervisor, because…
Symposium Abstract #8 – Matt Wood
March 12th, 2011 by Richard Holland
This is the last of the abstracts for talks being given at the 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium, "Provisioning Bioinformatics for the Next Decade – are we prepared?". Here we will hear from Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. AWS are also generously sponsoring this event by providing all delegates with US$50 free AWS…
Cloud Infrastructure (Infrastructure as a Service) – a common man’s supercomputer.
February 3rd, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
The University of Texas at Austin who used supercomputer to study the role of transcription factor proteins in gene regulation makes me think about how many organisations in the the life sciences arena have access to this kind of computational resource for their studies. Only few universities and some large pharmaceutical companies I suppose. Often…
Public or Private Cloud, or maybe Hybrid?
October 18th, 2010 by Nick
Last week I noticed that a new world record had been set… and I’m afraid I’m not talking about the common wealth games, but rather about another advance in private cloud computing. The record was set ( or rather reset, as they already held it ) by Autonomy Corporation Plc, and the press release is…