Comments on: Utility Computing http://www.katescomment.com/utility-computing/ Thoughts on British ICT, energy & environment, "Cloud", and security from Memset's MD Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:21:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: anonymoushttp://www.katescomment.com/utility-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-51 anonymous Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:50:20 +0000 http://www.katescomment.com/wordpress/?p=34#comment-51 Rackspace's Mosso option is worth looking at... cheers, Steve stephen dot thair at gmail.com Rackspace’s Mosso option is worth looking at…

cheers,
Steve
stephen dot thair at gmail.com

]]> By: anonymoushttp://www.katescomment.com/utility-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-50 anonymous Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:49:48 +0000 http://www.katescomment.com/wordpress/?p=34#comment-50 Great article, Kate. We've been arguing for this for some time, but have never found a hardware partner capable of delivering it. Virtualisation of server provision as a layer over the top of the physical resources is absolutely the way to go. You argue it from a green perspective, we see it as a way of finally delivering us (and our clients) from dependence on any single physical machine - if a server in the cluster breaks, just pull it out and plug in another. At worst, a blip in service speed, but never a complete outage. This way we all get to sleep better at night! Great article, Kate. We’ve been arguing for this for some time, but have never found a hardware partner capable of delivering it. Virtualisation of server provision as a layer over the top of the physical resources is absolutely the way to go. You argue it from a green perspective, we see it as a way of finally delivering us (and our clients) from dependence on any single physical machine – if a server in the cluster breaks, just pull it out and plug in another. At worst, a blip in service speed, but never a complete outage. This way we all get to sleep better at night!

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