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There are a few companies you may have heard of building large compute grids for consumption by the general public. They’re calling them their Cloud [...]

I’ve been working on a project that lets you quickly move systems between your private Xen implementation and Amazon’s EC2 service. There are a lot of hurdles to get this to work, and most of them are surrounding how Amazon doesn’t let you download a Kernel or Ramdisk image out of S3 unless you’re the [...]

Fresh off the heels of the VMware vCloud annoucement, Citrix has announced their own “Cloud Enabling” product titled Citrix Cloud Cente (C3). Similar to the vCloud offering, C3 will enable data centers to build their own cloud platform.You can get a copy of XenServer 5 today, but it’s unclear how the suite of tools that [...]