Ezhil Arasan Babaraj

What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing is nothing but providing Information Technology (IT) components such as computing, storage, network bandwidth,security, platforms and software as a service. It is considered to be a cost effective method, because you need not pay upfront a hefty amount and you will pay for what you use. Classification of Cloud Computing Services There are three types in Cloud Computing Services . 1. IaaS - Infrastructure As a Service The base IT infrastructure components such as Machines for computing, Storage, Network is provided as a service. Example : Amazon AWS, Rackspace Computing Cloud & Microsoft Windows Azure. 2. PaaS - Platform As a Service A solid platform in which you can develop, test, deploy & offer your applications to your end customers. Mostly your applications are offered as a Web & Web Services technologies. Example : Microsoft A... (more)

Eucalyptus: Cloud Computing Privately

Eucalyptus Session at Cloud Expo In our constant pursuit of exploring new technologies, we stumbled upon the Eucalyptus and greatly contemplated on its installation. Being driven by our leaning towards cloud. Eucalyptus really clouded our minds and we decided, "no pain, no gain".  And here we are having successfully installed Eucalyptus and here is how we did it. We have the Cloud Controller, the Cluster Controller and Node Controller all up and running. But the document is still a draft version. Why Draft? We are not basking in the clouds having did it, Eucalyptus did not allow u... (more)

Cloud Computing Support for Viewing Jungle Disk Files

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer Here I am at CSS Labs, developing components for our very own CloudBuddy for Cloud Computing… Wonder what CloudBuddy is? Take a look at www.mycloudbuddy.com and I promise, you would want to have a go at it. And what exactly am I going to write here? After thinking for quite some time, I decided that I could tell you about what CloudBuddy can do with Jungle Disk files… Here we go… This one is interesting… Jungle Disk Support… I was going through the users’ feedback on CloudBuddy… One Jungle Disk user had this problem of not being able to view the files tha... (more)

AWS Workshop, Chennai

With the onset of the Monsoons in Chennai there were Cloud of a different kind looming, and the Met Department was evangelizing them; there was also another Cloud Evangelist in Chennai, Jinesh Varia evangelizing Clouds of different kind, the Amazon Clouds. Event and Filling Gaps The event kicked off with Bobby Varghese from CSS Corp doing a keynote for the workshop. Bobby spoke about CSS adoption of the AWS and how they have come up with products and use cases based on AWS. The real clouds were holding back Jinesh from reaching the venue. So Ezhilaran Babaraj(Ezhil), from CSS Labs... (more)

Hybridfox: Cross of Elasticsfox and Imagination

Eucalyptus Cloud Journal Now we have a Eucalyptus' Private Cloud installed and running on our premise, and it remained kinda of an artifact in our data-center for sometime. So I thought why has not someone written anything about how make to make Elasticfox work with Eucalyptus. But there were quite a few pointers to what version will be ideally suited to use for Eucalyptus, like this one, thanks Ajmf. I took the cue from there, I enabled debugging on elasticfox, and used firebug to dig deeper. And I came up with Hybridfox, yeah, and it works. What is Hybridfox? Hybridfox is an at... (more)