Sun announced is vision for Cloud Computing this week at the CommunityOne conference. One of the key demonstrations (video) by Dave Douglas and Lew Tucker was the ability for cloud users to create a "Virtual Data Center" (VDC) by dragging and dropping system components from a palatte and linking them together into a scalable and robust service.
The demo showed a conceptual "Mediawiki" architecture implementation based on the same type of workload as one might expect from a service similar to the popular Wikipedia. It showed:
- It's very simple to bring in components (switches, load balancing servers, web servers, dbms servers, etc) and link them together to create a complete, robust, and scalable service. The demo dynamically added load balancing servers and showed how web accesses would cycle through these servers.
- Management of the VDC environment is very holistic. It's easy to see the whole implementation as one unit rather than have to deal with each individual (physical) machine.
- A great advantage of being in the cloud, as opposed to an actual physical implementation, is that it is very straightforward to replicate the VDC and package it up for use somewhere else (try that in an actual data center)
Hi,
I have been reading and view videos about Sun Cloud and Virtual Data Centers. But this information is dated in March 2009. What is the latest on Sun Cloud and/or Virtual Data Centers? Is 1 of these application available today Nov. 28, 2009? if not when will the be available to the public? I have an account with Amazon Web Services, but because of Sun's background with infrastructure and OS, I will be willing to wait for Sun Cloud, if I know how long to wait.
Posted by Gregory Williams on November 28, 2009 at 07:14 AM PST #