I have seen the same sort of thing with Amazon's AWS. Their Elastic beanstalk service http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/ allows you to fire up an automatically scaling Java application, by uploading a war file, filling out a few form fields and a few clicks. I am sure it takes a bit more than that to maintain it :)
But it is a pretty stunning piece of tech. Mind boggling actually. We live in exciting times. G! On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Dan Crouch <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are evaluating Terremark's Enterprise Cloud solution right now. It > really is amazing what you can do through their control panel. I can spin up > or shut down VMs, allocate additional vCPUs, memory, or hard drive space all > through the panel. Within a few minutes, I had multiple VMs with a > combination of OSes, both 32 and 64 bit. I was able to tie in the built in > load balancer and set all the rules on the built in firewall. I have been > really impressed at the level of options present and with the relative ease > of use to get it all running. Performance has been virtually identical to > the physical servers we have through hosting.com. > > >I'm not trying to be difficult, but it takes more than virtual servers > >to make a solution a "cloud" solution. I don't see anything on your > >site about being able to allocate more resources on an as-needed > >basis, for example. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342709 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
