2009
Pawn Promotion

EU Cloud Expert Group – report

12/12/09 16:44 Filed in: Reports
Report exec summary recently released:
THE FUTURE OF CLOUD COMPUTING – OPPORTUNITIES FOR EUROPEAN CLOUD COMPUTING BEYOND 2010
Pawn Promotion’s Aake Edlund is one of the authors. The full report will be released at an event in Brussels on January 26, 2010:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/events-20100126-cloud-computing_en.html

Eucalyptus podcast

24/11/09 16:47 Filed in: Cloud computing | Eucalyptus
“The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud” November 23 podcast interview with Eucalyptus CTO Rich Wolski,  listen to the interview here
Some of the highlights of this podcast include discussions on the following:
  • Cloud computing within Enterprise IT organizations
  • Differences between grid computing, data center virtualization and cloud computing
  • Roles of public and on-premise clouds in the datacenter
  • The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, powered by Eucalyptus
Personally I really liked the “SW life cycle management” part, really useful!

Cloud course in Espoo, Finland

16/10/09 16:48 Filed in: Cloud computing | Courses
A full day course on cloud computing, giving the basis of cloud computing and some hands-on testing of Eucalyptus, Hadoop and OpenNEbula. Audience: technical persons (admin level and similar) from CSC and UH.

The Cloud as a Competitive Edge

31/03/09 16:49 Filed in: Startups
The Cloud as a Competitive Edge for Young Companies – A Startups Story

One motivator for us doing cloud computing is the value it can add to early stage startups. In this presentation John Barr from Yieldex shows how it helped them get into business.