Cloud Computing Vendors

Providing some brief description of top/in demand of Cloud vendors.

1) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

(a) How capable is their cluster

They can process 100GB of web logs in 35 minutes.

(b) What is the cost structure

Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Estimate your monthly bill using
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each
instance type. Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours.

The pricing below is based on data transferred "in" and "out" of Amazon EC2.

Data Transfer In
All Data Transfer $0.10 per GB

Data Transfer Out

First 10 TB per Month $0.17 per GB
Next 40 TB per Month $0.13 per GB
Next 100TB per Month $0.11 per GB
Over 150 TB per Month $0.10 per GB

(c) Is it Hadoop based or propriety code

Elastra Based
(d) How do customers deploy data and code to the cluster?

To use Amazon EC2, you simply:

• Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data
and associated configuration settings. Or use pre-configured, templated images to get up
and running immediately.
• Upload the AMI into Amazon S3. Amazon EC2 provides tools that make storing the
AMI simple. Amazon S3 provides a safe, reliable and fast repository to store your
images.
• Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.
• Choose which instance type(s) and operating system you want, then start, terminate, and
monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs or the
variety of management tools provided.
• Determine whether you want to run in multiple locations, utilize static IP endpoints, or
attach persistent block storage to your instances.
• Pay only for the resources that you actually consume, like instance-hours or data
transfer.

(e) How long it take to register the cluster if needed.

When you sign up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), you generate an X.509 certificate
that is used to encrypt communications with Amazon’s servers. You must store the
public and private key files generated during that process on your workstation to connect
to AWS. In addition to your certificate, you generate a key pair that is used to encrypt
and decrypt the administrator password for your instances.

(f) Any legal or other documentation needed to register the computing

To use Amazon EC2, you must sign up for an AWS Account, sign up for Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3), and sign up for Amazon EC2. These are three different
actions that must be performed separately. For information on obtaining an AWS
Account, go to the Amazon AWS Home Page. For information on signing up for
Amazon S3, see Signing up for Amazon S3. For information on signing up for
Amazon EC2, see Signing up for Amazon EC2.

(g) Kind of restrictions on the deployed code

No, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud offers you full Linux machines with root access
and the opportunity to run whatever apps you want.
 (h) Any restriction on the CPU usage

No

(i) Any restriction on the amount of I/O in the cluster

No [10]

(j) How much control we will have on our assigned cluster?

Amazon EC2, you have to manually detect machine load and bring instances up or down
accordingly. You need to set up load balancing and clustering.

2) Google App Engine (GAE)

(a) How capable is their cluster

GAE is a cloud usually referred as Paas (Platform as a Service). App Engine is free
precisely when you’re building your company and keeping costs low is the most
important. If you go beyond that 5 million, Google’s I/O event today will
reveal newly announced prices .

(b) What is the cost structure

The is cost $0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month. App Engine provides 5 million or so page
views per month for free

(c) Is it Hadoop based or propriety code

BigTable Based

(d) How do customers deploy data and code to the cluster?

Google migrates your application across its infrastructure automatically as needed.

(e) How long it take to register the cluster if needed.

No, registration needed.

 (f) Any legal or other documentation needed to register the computing

No

(g) Kind of restrictions on the deployed code

No, Google's App Engine will also let you run whatever program you want -- as long as
you specify it in a limited version of Python and use Google's database. []

(h) Any restriction on the CPU usage

No

(i) Any restriction on the amount of I/O in the cluster

Nearly unlimited scalability of your application.

(j) How much control we will have on our assigned cluster?

Full control

3) IBM Blue Cloud

Started in 2007 , patching up with universities cluster formation.

1. The Qatar Cloud Computing Initiative, driven by three universities, will open its cloud
infrastructure to local businesses and industries to test applications and complete various
projects, including seismic modeling and the exploration for oil and gas.

2. Another university, the University of Pretoria is using cloud computing to test the
development of drugs to slow the progression of serious illnesses in Africa.
4) HP Aiaas

Hp AiaaS (Adaptive Infrastructure as a Service) started in March 2008.

(a) How capable is their cluster

HP AIaaS offers customers access to HP owned and managed data centers that deliver
an optimized platform for Microsoft® Exchange, SAP® applications and other critical
business applications.

● Application staging and on-boarding

● Application operations management
● Infrastructure operations management
● Provisioning with predefined hardware and operating system software

HP also announced service offerings targeting facilities service, data center

consolidation and virtualization, and new software tools to manage virtualized
infrastructure.

(b) What is the cost structure

Asked for representative pricing, Nelson ( senior vice president of market for HP's
technology solution group) said " it's nearly impossible to put a dollar figure" on it, due
to different customer needs. [8]

(c) Is it Hadoop based or propriety code

Elastra Based

(d) How do customers deploy data and code to the cluster?

HP is offering data center design services via the acquisition of EYP Mission Critical
Facilities. In a nutshell, HP will design your data center for you. [13]

(e) How long it take to register the cluster if needed.

Within a matter of hours, customers can rapidly access additional computing power to
meet their fluctuating needs.

(f) Any legal or other documentation needed to register the computing.

No

(g) Kind of restrictions on the deployed code

No
 (h) How much control we will have on our assigned cluster?

With HP AIaaS, all of the assets are owned and managed by HP.

(i) Can we freely deploy code / data or need their intervention.

You maintain ownership and management of your application, while offloading

application operations and infrastructure management to HP.

5) Rackspace

Rackspace is offering a new cloud computing service through its subsidiary Mosso.
Mosso bills itself as a Web app hosting service.

(a) How capable is their cluster

Ranked #43 Best Cloud Computing Vendors For America. [15]

(b) What is the cost structure

Starts at $100 a month for:

—50 GB of storage
—500 GB of bandwidth for transferring data
—3 million HTTP requests.
From there additional capacity per month costs:
—$0.50/GB of storage
—$0.25/GB of bandwidth
—$0.03/1,000 HTTP requests
This is a bit more expensive than Amazon (which charges in a different way) but a lot
cheaper than the $350 to $400 a month Rackspace charges to host a dedicated server
for a Website.

(c) Is it Hadoop based or propriety code

Bespoke Based

(d) How do customers deploy data and code to the cluster?

Through FTP.

(e) How long it take to register the cluster if needed.

Few hours.
(f) Any legal or other documentation needed to register the computing

No

(g) Kind of restrictions on the deployed code

The system is scalable.

(h) Any restriction on the CPU usage

The system is scalable.

(i) Any restriction on the amount of I/O in the cluster.

The system is scalable.

(j) How much control we will have on our assigned cluster?

Not on cloud sites, control is by a Control Panel.

(k) Can we freely deploy code / data or need their intervention.

Yes, the system is scalable.

 List Of Vendors

Cloud Vendor Level Type Status Based Off Beta Status Notes
Amazon EC2 0 Server Provider Backbone Beta
Amazon S3 2 Storage Provider Backbone Beta
Amazon 2 Database Provider Backbone Beta
SimpleDB
Areti Internet 0 Application Provider 3Tera Production
Box-Net 1 Storage Provider Backbone Production
Dell DCS 2 Server Provider Backbone TBD
Elastra 1 Server Provider Amazon EC2 Beta
EMC Mozy 1 Storage Provider Backbone Production Cloud Services Play
Flexiscale 2 Server Provider Backbone Production UK Based
Google Apps 1 Application Provider Backbone Beta Desktop play
HP Aiaas 2 Server Provider Backbone TBD HP to Power
Department of
Defense Cloud
Computing
Infrastructure
IBM Blue 0 Server Provider Backbone TBD Provisioning play
Cloud
Icloud 1 Application Provider Backbone Production Desktop Cloud
Joyent 2 Server Provider Backbone Production Solaris based cloud
Layered 1 Server Provider 3Tera Production A 3Tera mega
Technology partner
Microsoft SSDS 1 Database Provider Backbone TBD Competes
w/Amazon
SimpleDB
Mosso 2 Server Provider Rackspace Production Owned by
Rackspace
Rackspace 0 Server Provider Amazon EC2 Production
Rightscale 1 Server Provider Amazon EC2 Beta
Salesforce.com 0 Application Provider Saas Production
Sun Caroline 2 Server Provider Backbone TBD
Sun MySQL 1 Database Provider Backbone TBD
Terremark 0 Server Provider Backbone Production
Level Description
0 Cloud Look-Alike
1 Cloud Guests
2 Cloud Hosts
3 Cloud Disruptor

Figure 1: List Of Top Vendors

Figure 2: Comparison Between Vendors
References:

[1] : http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

[2]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.3558

[3]: http://www.johnmwillis.com/mysql/cloud-vendors-a-to-z/

[4]: http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-cafe-30-what-is-a-cloud-from-the-beginning/

[5]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/21/30TC-cloud-reviews_1.html

[6] : http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/4846

[7]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/ibms-blue-cloud-is-web-computng-by-another-name/

[8]:http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/management/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=O
UVYHNOPD0ENOQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=206904227&cid=tab_art_entsoft

[9]: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/simpledb

[10]: http://adamfisk.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/where-google-app-engine-spanks-amazons-web-
services-s3-ec2-simple-db-sqs/

[11] : http://hostingfu.com/article/setting-up-part-time-web-cluster-with-amazons-ec2

[12]: http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/583798-0-0-0-121.html

[13]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8231

[14]: http://www.cloudoperatingsystem.com/?cat=6&paged=2

[15]: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/snapshots/43.html