PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tag "Cloud Computting"

This article explains the benefits and drawbacks of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and SimpleDB offerings when it comes to building a Web site. This visual tour explains the S3 and SimpleDB architectures and how to use them through practical examples; in this case, you'll use a Perl library to build a simple photo-sharing site.

Learn how you can use Infrastructure as a Service to get a full computer infrastructure using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This article helps you plan ahead for working with cloud by knowing how cloud computing compares to grid computing, how you can resolve issues in cloud and grid computing, and what security issues exist with data recovery and managing private keys in a pay-on-demand environment.

You can't read a technical Web site these days without some mention of so-called cloud computing. Cloud computing gives users access to massive computing and storage resources without their having to know where those resources are or how they're configured. This article discusses the anatomy of cloud computing and how Linux and the open source community contribute to the world of cloud computing. As you might have guessed, Linux and open source technologies play a huge role.