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Mohamed El-Refaey

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Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, mentioned that Oracle would not be offering Sun's long-planned and highly-vaunted compute resource service. They will just play the role of supplier to components and pieces that can be used in cloud services; From the beginning Larry Ellison hates Cloud, and it looks that this will be applied for Sun as well after the complete acquisition done recently ... ... (more)

Cloud Computing Certifications

Cloudonomics Journal on Ulitzer Though am not that fond of certificates in general and believe in practical hands-on to the extremes, it looks that within two years I should be aware of the training kits and certificates exist for cloud computing and virtualization technology :) ... 3Tera (Cloud Computing Platform and services company) announced today their cloud computing certifications ... (more)

Ever thought about sharing your idle desktop ?!

Never thought about sharing your desktop idle time with others ? ... NereusV enables idle time donation with a single click on a link in a webpage - there is no software to download and install. Indeed the software developer can remotely "push" new versions of application code to NereusV clients without any action required of the donor. NereusV is a simple, secure, reliable open source for... (more)

Ubuntu 9.10 Will Feature Cloud Computing

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and leader of Canonical Ltd., the authors and distributors of the Ubuntu distro of Linux, announced the code name of the new version Friday and noted that the Ubuntu team had several priorities, including the design of the system’s “look”, according to a CNET article. The most interesting of the priorities, perhaps, was the inclusion of cloud computing feat... (more)

Isolated Execution through virtualization

Interesting initiative, a reference implementation of the Security through Isolation using Virtualization. http://isolated-exec.sourceforge.net/?q=node/1 And here is a flash animation that illustrates the idea: http://isolated-exec.sourceforge.net/?q=node/6 ... (more)