While researching for an upcoming article I’m writing, I stumbled on this cloud architectures white paper from Jinesh Varia, technological evangelist @ Amazon web services (AWS).
This is an interesting document and peoples interested in presenting a valid use-case to management for the deployment of applications over a cloud should really like it.
This bring me to the big question of why Quebec isn’t a leader in this virtualization/on-demand computing industry. Always though that having a very low electricity cost was an incentive to invest in big data center and then try to automatize everything. This would have led to the really interesting technology that is virtualization (cutting provision time by a very big margin) -
Maybe this low cost electricity is exactly what made international concurrents more interested in saving cpu cycle…
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2 comments so far
Hi Pascal,
I think your statement on why Quebec isn’t leader in the virtualization industry is flawed : When you don’t care about how much space you take and how much electricity you use then you don’t need to virtualize.
I see this pretty clearly : when I was working on France I was quite used to seeing IBM and HP bladecenters and big SANs even in small companies because the cost for surface and power was pretty high. Here I rarely see those technologies and I guess it is because energy and space is cheap.
Well I guess it was what you meant by this last sentence.
Antoine
August 5th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Thanks for your comment. I guess I should have been more precise in my statement. You are very right about the lack of interest for virtualization in Montreal datacenter.
I am also aware that our “iWeb”, “Peer1″, “Canix” datacenter decided not to push virtualization technology forward, but then, take the current market forces : Amazon, GoGrid, 3tera, enomaly, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft - they all go toward the cloud infrastructure. An infrastructure where the client does only care about applications.
Some of my client prefer to run on Amazon EC2, because the hardware aspect is taken care for by experienced sysadmin. Being honest, a server colocation (where I bought the server) cost around 100$/month in Montreal right now. This is 30% more than Amazon EC2 charge for an full one-month instance.
What I meant was simply that there is some nice API being developped around Amazon EC2, that datacenter are evolving and… I think Montreal is missing the train.
Note: I did heard about a big cloud being deployed in montreal, but it was nothing official.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
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