Using elastic cloud resources from Amazon Web Services, for example, a tiny software developer can scale its Internet presence as fast as it wants.
In particular, Oracle's new Exalogic Elastic Cloud is "very similar in concept, but different in implementation" compared with the combined offering from GigaSpaces and Cisco, says Shalom.
The products involved are the already familiar engineered appliances Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster, an appliance running Solaris 11 on up to 16 SPARC processors with eight cores each.
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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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There was another EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) outage in April 2011, which stemmed from EBS-related issues.
Amazon first introduced the public at large to the concept of IaaS in 2006, when the company launched its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
The Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
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Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
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In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.
If they are designed correctly, cloud computing applications that leverage the elastic scaling of cloud-based systems actually provide better performance than locally hosted systems.
The approach aligns with the trend toward SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (network function virtualization) among telecommunications operators, thanks to its elastic and virtualization-friendly cloud architecture.
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Yet, less than half of cloud users have deployed elastic applications of any kind.
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Depending upon how an application is combined with elastic infrastructure, the function of the cloud service could change from Infrastructure as a Service to Software as a Service.
"At OneScreen, we are excited to add Amazon Elastic Transcoder to our broad utilization of the AWS cloud, " said Patrick Ting, CTO, OneScreen, Inc.
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Actually it became attractive because of the success of elastic enterprises like Apple (mobile) and Amazon (Cloud services) and Google (also mobile).
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In fact, most cloud providers should provide you with much greater performance considering the elastic nature of clouds, with all-you-can-eat servers available and ready to do your bidding.
Skyfire's innovative, next-generation carrier cloud approach to mobile video and data optimization provides wireless operators with huge cost savings, elastic capacity, and the ability to surgically enhance quality of experience on a per-stream level.
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