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Sun veterans ramp up speed for Cloud

Posted by Stuart Lauchlan in Infrastructure on Tue, 14/04/2009 - 15:08

Technology veterans from Sun Microsystems are working on high-powered data-access appliances designed to speed up Cloud Computing applications.

Schooner Information Technology has taken IBM's Intel-based servers and added flash memory, 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections, the Linux operating system, and a choice between the Memcached distributed memory caching system and the MySQL database. The end result is said to be eight times the performance of traditional servers, allowing data centres to consolidate onto fewer machines.

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

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We said that 2009 was the Year of the Cloud. We were wrong. In reality it was a year of the Cloud, albeit an important year. It was the year that Cloud Computing adoption gained sufficient traction that even if your organisation hadn't begun to roll out Cloud-based technologies, it needed at least to put them on the corporate agenda for consideration. 

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