http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org Morfeo Clout Technologies chapter Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:43:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hype and high expectations have always been there as an important  risk for the Cloud to never overcome the high expectations created. We have got used to impressive IaaS system, delivering easily-manageable virtual infrastructures, virtually infinite resources, etc. or advanced PaaS Clouds letting us to deploy our applications and easing ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/the-cloud-gets-down-approaching-the-end-user A few months ago, we tested Amazon's IaaS offer, concluding that machines deployed closely in time were closely located. We were also able of pinging machines in the same subnetwork which did not belong to us. A recent article by UCSD and MIT researchers has much further expanded our initial observations ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/cloud-security-new-models-imply-new-vulnerabilities Telefónica I+D is proud to announce the first release of its OCCI Java implementation.  After UCM's efforts to provide the first fully-compliant OCCI server attached to OpenNebula, we release here a second OCCI implementation (Java REST client + server). This is the result of privately-funded efforts as well as  FP7 European Research ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/occi-java-implementation-v01-released Recently, we create of the Claudia project in the Morfeo community, to provide toolkit of components that together compose a management platform for IaaS cloud computing infrastructures, but, at the same time are independent enough to be used as separate pieces. We are proud to announce that the first of ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/first-claudia-component-released-ovf-manager As part of its exploitation strategy, Telefónica I+D decided to release as Open Source a number of components developed during the research on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds.  These components will be integrated in the Claudia Platform that will offer a Service Management toolkit to deploy and control the ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/claudia-telefonica-id-will-release-as-open-source-research-results-on-iaas-clouds Juan José Hierro, CTO on Software Technologies, presented Telefónica's vision on Cloud Technologies at the Grids, Clouds and Service Infrastructures" workshop organized by ETSI and OGF-Europe at Sophia Antipolis on last 2-3 December 2009. In his speech, Juan  José Hierro presented the vision on the evolution of cloud technologies focused in ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/telefonica-vision-about-cloud-tecnologies Today a new deployment of the EzWeb platform will be available at http://ezweb.tid.es. In this version you will find new and interesting functionalities related to workspace management, improving the web desktop aspect of EzWeb. You will also discover new options for the inclusion of gadgets into your workspace. As you can see we continue ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/lang_esdespliegue-de-una-nueva-version-de-ezweblang_es Organised by OGF-Europe Project and its Industry Expert Group (IEG), the workshop will focus on the need of standards to ensure that solutions and applications which are deployed today can be used tomorrow while avoiding vendor lock-in to ensure freedom of choice based on cost versus performance. Cloudscape delivers important insights ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/cloudscape-ii-workshop-brussels-22-23-feb Cloud Security Alliance has recently released their second edition of the Cloud Security Guide, defining security recommendations for Cloud security at different architectural levels. We'd like to highlight one important issue raised by the authors: the abstraction level provided by the CLoud, which hides the underlying heterogeneity of resources, makes it ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/cloud-security-alliance Yes, I was trying to attract your attention with a "British tabloid" style heading here. The news is not at all so radically new, but now that I attracted your attention I beg you pardon and kindly ask you to allow me 4 minutes to sum up Amazon's "new" billing ... http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/archives/advanced-billing-models-for-the-cloud-at-last