Links List 6.27.08

Cloud computing is a seriously hot topic. Alistair Croll at Bitcurrent (and GigaOm) breaks it down into two simple thoughts though. The first one’s pretty basic: Don’t use someone who can’t keep their cloud running. The second one is less obvious: The value of a cloud service isn’t just what it does; it’s also how many people use it.

Red Hat has adopted KVM. The company will offer a new lightweight distribution which integrates KVM, selling it as the Red Hat virtualization platform (Embedded Linux Hypervisor). Additionally, the company will offer a new enterprise-wide management solution called oVirt, which is based on the standardized libvirt APIs and is designed to scale up to thousands of virtual machines. The question is, how does this impact Xen?

Speaking of competitive impact, HP and VMWare are teaming up. They will jointly develop hardware to manage VMWare Hypervisor technology.

RedMonk praises downtime, saying that without it, Twitter would not be the hot commodity it is today.

A positive effect from downtime is not always possible though, as evidenced by Data Center Knowledge’s post about an extended data center outage at hosting firm Atlantic.net.

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Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Downtime, IT Operations, Virtualization