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Main amenities
- 68 smoke-free condos
- Seasonal outdoor pool
- Sauna
- Arcade/game room
- Picnic area
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- Limited hour front desk
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- Sunriver Homeowners Aquatic & Recreation Center (1 mi / 1.6 km)
- Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory (1.8 mi / 2.8 km)
- Lava River Cave (5 mi / 8 km)
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Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $136
- Loft, 1 Bedroom
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 68 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Guests planning to arrive outside of normal check-in hours must contact this property in advance to arrange check-in. Please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
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- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking (limited)
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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- Spa tub
- Sauna
- Bicycle rentals nearby
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- Hiking/biking trails nearby
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- Arcade/game room
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- Picnic area
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- Pines Sunriver Hotel
- Pines Sunriver Condo
This property does not provide daily housekeeping.
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Deposit: USD 50.00 per stay
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Excellent 4.5 /5 from 11 reviews
Great place to stay in the mountains. The Murphy bed was a fun addition, but it wasn't too comfortable for our two night stay. Loved the location!
Our only issue was the pillows. They were lumpy and uncomfortable. Otherwise accommodations were great. We enjoy getting to cook, so kitchen is great. Nearby market had great selection. Spa/jacuzzi was clean and hot. Sage Springs is an exceptional spa for massage and treatment services.
The units are a little older, but have great fireplaces & plenty of room. I was in a 1 bedroom loft, which has a spiral staircase so moving luggage upstairs is a little difficult. You also have to carry your stuff up a flight of exterior stairs too. Travel light if you can! The unit could have used a bit more cleaning, with dust on the tops of the lamps and fridge. Great location in Sunriver, 5 minute walk to the Resort & 10 minutes to the Village. I would book The Pines again.
Was perfect for a 1-night stay - no big cleaning fee like most Sunrtiver condos. Only downside was there is not a typical hotel lobby - had to call a service to get lockbox number to pick up our key.
The Pines at SunRiver is spacious and has a great central location to enjoy the resort. Each room even comes with free bicycles! We will be back.
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At a time when the major concern is global warming and reducing reliance on fossil-fuel energy, it's reasonable to ask WHY aren't we doing more to tap clean energy sources like wind and solar.
The simple answer is economics. The situation is that a kilowatt of electricity from solar currently costs around three to five times a kilowatt of conventional energy (varies depending on location and many other factors).
However, the solar industry has boomed over the last ten years, with major technological innovations and market-forces making solar increasingly popular.
Adding the right support and customer conditions into the mix can create an enormous opportunity for solar to become a practical, economic, and majorly beneficial energy source.
Below we'll explore seven recent advances making solar significantly more feasible today.
Government Subsidies and Incentives
Governmental subsidies, tax cuts and other incentives have made solar energy projects more feasible. In the United States,
governmental subsidies
alone can reduce the cost of a solar system from 10% to 60% - significantly lowering the customer-cost of electricity generated.
The stabilization of costs through initiatives like Feed in Tariffs have made solar more attractive to investors as they can be certain of returns.
However, Spain offers a warning of how subsidies can go wrong if mismanaged or the level of commitment can't ride out the global financial crises. Furthermore, such "stop-and-go" support can damage public confidence in the technology.
Drop in Solar Panel Costs
Cost has always been achilles heel of solar, until recently.
Rapid advances in solar energy technology and manufacturing capabilities have triggered a major drop in the price of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.
A National Renewable Energy Laboratory report, which looked at 59,000 solar installations, put the 2009 solar panel costs at between $0.28 and $0.46 per kilowatt hour - before government incentives. The study uses 2009 data as data from later years cannot be adequately assessed yet. According to a recent Bloomberg report,
the cost of solar panels
has dropped a further 80% since then.
These kinds of cost reductions will make it possible for more people to afford solar panels.
Factors such as the rising cost of fossil fuels and expected emissions trading taxes indicate the cost of electricity generated from solar panels will become even more competitive in the coming years.
Low Interest Bank Loans for Solar Projects
As with most renewable energy systems, the bulk of the investment for a solar energy system is required at the beginning of the project.
This usually locks out a large proportion of domestic users.
Some banks have joined forces with energy development agencies to create low interest start up loans. These loans can amount up to $20,000 with 10 year terms.
The Kyoto Protocol
Although its success is a matter of debate, the
Kyoto Protocol
has changed the face of the global renewable energy industry.
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement including 194 states, outlining targets to reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions.
The Kyoto Protocol was followed by COP 17 negotiations in December 2011, at Durban. In Durban, some member states agreed to ratify targets into law, however some major member states failed to commit.
Impacts of such inter-governmental negotiations include positioning renewable energies higher on government priority lists - leading to energy policies such as Feed in Tariffs - as well as triggering executive and public discussion on renewable energy issues.
Improved Solar Power Efficiency
The efficiency of solar panels has for a long time been a huge obstacle for investment. This essentially means the percentage of sun energy that a panel can convert into usable electricity.
Previous efficiencies below 15% have not been particularly attractive to investors.
Ongoing research and development has raised mainstream conversion efficiency levels to around 22% - making it a more enticing option.
Parallel Solar Innovations
The solar market-boom and predictions of the significance of solar in future energy structures have provided a good motivation and opportunity for developments in very different arms of solar technology.
Innovations such as triple-junction and concentrated solar energy systems have achieved prototype efficiencies of up to 43%.
Some of the major developments include:
- Double- and triple-junction solar panels, where multiple layers of solar conductors are laid on top of each other to conduct energy from a greater range on the light spectrum.
- Concentrated solar uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy on a smaller area of solar panel. This means that a greater volume of light energy can be radiated onto small areas of solar panel – maximising electricity generation while minimizing costs for expensive semi-conductor materials. Smaller semi-conductors also allow greater flexibility in upgrading semi-conductor material in the future – for example discarding silicon semi-conductors and replacing them with more efficient materials.
- Concentrated solar-thermal systems work in the same manner, however the concentrated sunlight is used to boil water in a central tower, which produces steam to spin turbines that produce electricity.
- Thin-film and amorphous solar cells work on a similar model to conventional solar panels, but are less bulky and can be moulded to different surfaces. The opportunity these present is in making solar viable in a range of applications, such as light-weight solar wall panels.
Better Solar Industry Training
Improved industry training is another major factor helping make solar energy dependable, affordable, and practical.
Since solar's initial emergence as a potential major energy source, a number of
industry training organisations
have begun working with manufacturers and installers, as well as architects and designers.
Proper installation minimises instances of equipment failure and inefficiencies.
As well as ensuring the technology works as it should, proper training reduces the chances of good products gaining a bad reputation because of poor installation.
Education for architects and designers is also an important step as, without educating architects and designers, solar technology will never be considered for many construction projects.
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From the Sidelines to a Starring Role: Swiss Chard Makes a Main Dishby Joseph Erdos in Recipes, Shows, December 10th, 2013
The Chopped Dinner Challenge is a series of recipes showing you how easy it is to cook like a winning Chopped competitor. Every week, FN Dish will showcase a recipe created by Food Network Kitchens that uses at least one of the Chopped basket ingredients, plus basic grocery goods and simple staples. Consider it your very own Chopped challenge. Just take this frequent tip from the judges: Don't forget to season!
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OPINION: Yesterday's crowd of 18,056 at Eden Park to watch the Phoenix and Adelaide United follows the 20,000 that turned out to watch A-League football last time it was in Auckland.
It's pretty impressive for a city that hasn't got a great track record for supporting 'the beautiful game.' And, poignantly, comes at a time when football in this country is on the verge of a shake-up.
Gareth Morgan's comments in the Sunday Star-Times last week were a revelation.
The philanthropist and Phoenix co-owner said: "I'm reasonably keen even on the idea of a second New Zealand team in the A-League, obviously you would want an Auckland-based team and I'd even go as far to say that I'd be interested in investing in that."
My initial thought was, are you serious? Auckland has a horrific track record with professional football sides. Both the Kingz and Knights failed to ignite one iota of passion or fanatical following during their time in the City of Sails.
In fact, both franchises tarnished the sport's reputation, becoming a joke for their inability to perform on the pitch or at management level. It's almost inconceivable that Auckland would be granted another chance with professional league football - in a league which is going from strength to strength.
Football Federation Australia chief executive David Gallop has made no secret of his desire to expand the A-League. Wollongong, Canberra, Tasmania and even an Asian-based side have all been talked about in expansion plans.
Incredibly, so has Auckland, with a return still a possibility.
The question is: is Auckland ready?
A year ago, Ivan Vuksich, president of top local side Auckland City, indicated it would be a waste of time to consider such a proposal unless lessons had been learned from the previous attempts at bedding a professional team into the city.
Vuksich also suggested the need for a "hands on" approach from investors.
Fair observations but now we at least have a successful model in Wellington that can be replicated. Morgan and his business partners in the Welnix consortium have definitely taken on board past failings.
The key, as Vuksich alluded to, is that Morgan or an equivalent investor, personally oversees every major decision within the club.
The benefits of a second franchise are seemingly endless, so perhaps the Wellington Phoenix's recipe could work in Auckland?
Firstly, it would need to include investors of the ilk of Morgan, if not have some major involvement from the man himself, as his comments intimate.
Having money and a willingness to invest far from guarantees success however, it requires the right type of people with the right set of skills to contribute.
The smart move would be to engage Auckland City for support, if not a form of financial buy-in from them. They would bring two crucial ingredients for a start - a fan base and an understanding of professionalism in the game.
Secondly, just because people are turning out in numbers to watch the Phoenix once every year or two, certainly does not ensure they will turn up weekly en masse.
Aucklanders are notoriously fickle supporters and the novelty factor would quickly wear thin if the quality of the product on the field was not creme de la creme.
The other key factor is the venue. Eden Park is potentially far too big while Mt Smart and North Harbour Stadium are both in the 'too hard basket' as locations.
That could change though if the city was to invest heavily in match-day transport to make the latter two options more viable. Otherwise, they would need to finance a new, purpose built stadium to bring the city into this millennium with sports arenas - and if that can't even happen for hosting a Rugby World Cup, it's not an option football can really think about.
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A view from the clouds: Cloud computing for developers
A recipe for self-service access
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Execution modes for script packages
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A useful technique for script packages
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Proxy techniques for the WebSphere CloudBurst REST API
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New elasticity capabilities
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WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Tivoli Monitoring
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Cloning, virtualization and Cloud computing
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Can you have cloud computing without virtualization? I don't think so. Some have stated to me that they believe a cloud could b contrived without virtualization but I don't see it. Cloud computing is all about being able to expand or contract an enterprise on demand and as a service. Without deployable virtual images there is no mechanism for doing this efficiently.
I suppose that you could argue that clouds do not necessarily include the OS or the hardware and that you could scale by use of templates and configuration files to clone systems. That is cloning. Cloning, spawning, parallel processing and other mechanisms for creating capacity and processing power dont have the scope that a full cloud implementation has. Cloud computing is an administration paradigm that may share or even employ some or all of these other techniques but can include more.
I guess the biggest thing that sets cloud computing apart from cloining or spawning is that cloud computing is a paradigm for a flexible distributed computing platform. Cloning and spawing are techniques as is Virtualization.Clouds are entire managed infrastructures where virtulized systems are simply tools and cloning is a function of products.
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WebSphere CloudBurst and Rational Automtation Framework for WebSphere
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May is almost here and that means that IBM IMPACT is right around the corner. Just like years past, IMPACT 2010 will be a great chance to get valuable education and insight into IBM WebSphere software and software from across the IBM software family. If you want to hear how IBM software is leading the march toward a smarter planet, register now.
IMPACT 2010 will be a great chance to hear the WebSphere cloud computing story. There will be multiple sessions on the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. These include customer-led sessions, internal adoption stories, overviews, and much more. I'll be there running a hands-on lab and delivering a session that discusses integration between WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Rational tools. Of course, there is more to WebSphere and cloud computing than WebSphere CloudBurst. We have several other sessions that will detail all of IBM WebSphere's work in the cloud.
If you are interested, I put together a short video discussing some of the sessions on tap for WebSphere and cloud computing at IMPACT 2010. I'd also encourage you to check out the social media site for IBM IMPACT 2010. On that site, you will find tweets, videos, and blogs about the conference. Don't forget to sign up, and I hope to see you in Las Vegas! -- Dustin Amrhein
Interview with an Architect
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Scheduling pattern deployment
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Making virtual system patterns better
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Script packages in-depth
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Just what is an OSGi component anyway?
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Cloud Strata
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At the core of cloud computing discussions and cloud computing in general is the idea of virtualization. The word 'virtualization' might invoke different things depending on who you talk to but for cloud discussions many people think of virtual images: entire systems being stored even down to the operating systems. The advantages seem evident. Instead of complex deployment models you simply need to take an unused piece of hardware resource and lay in the exact pattern. The assumption is that the hardware is free an compatible but everything else is negotiable. I think, however that there are different levels of assumption within the cloud concept.
Laying in entire systems from the OS up may be way more work than is necessary. The advantage is that there are fewer constraints on what kinds of things you can depoy in your cloud. But one of the big disadvantages are that there are fewer constraints on what kinds of things you can depoy in your cloud. Sometimes, productivity is higher when your developers are given the topology parameters and when he knows what resources are going to be available.
In fact, the concept of cloud seems to infer that there are fewer assumptions needed so you will have maximum versatility. However, flexibility is an antagonist to stability and stability is needed for prodcutivity. In effect, more assumptions necessarily equals faster developement and quicker time to release. So is cloud the antithesis of productivity? No, of course not. The beauty of clouds is that you can have as many assumptions as you want.
A productive cloud model could assume specific hardware, OS and even webservers and macro-topologies. The cloud's resources could simply be avalable platforms that serve as quickly added nodes that can be dynamically provisioned within an appserver deployment.
I think cloud models can be stratfied based on the number of assumptions that are built into it. Level 0 clouds could be where the only assumtion is the that the physical machines will support the virtual images. Level 6 could be that virtual servers and resources can be cloned by template to act as expansion nodes to meet growing demand. Does this cross over into other scaling models? Yes. So what? It doesn't have to be unique in every aspect it merely has to be consistent for effective use.
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Get an inventory of your virtual systems
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FAQs Revisited - Part 3
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Working together on IBM Workload Deployer
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Interop Conference
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Dustin and i manned the IBM booth at InterOp in Las Vegas last week. The conference was very different from the industry conferences I remember, but then again I haven't been to one in a long time. I don't recall seeing boxing matches, light shows or bikini models but I think they are a welcome addition.
Ostensibly this conference was focused on cloud computing and was even called the "Cloud Summit". However, in the vendor area, there were few real cloud computing specific peds. Most of the vendor displays were about hardware, system monitoring and security.
Ric Telford of IBM gave a keynote address and sspoke of IBM's cloud offerings. After the keynote, there was a flurry of visitors asking about IBM, Cloud Computing and IBM's cloud offerings. Most of the visitors were looking for education and we were happy to have the opportunity to talk about the company and cloud computing from IBM's perspective.
We had the CloudBurst Appliance with us and it drew some interest. The purple case definitely stood out and drew inquiries. Some excitement is being generated but I think now the industry and the market has to catch up to us.
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A practical look at customization
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Junk and Treasure
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If you work in a development shop similar to mine, you and many of your coworkers have more than one workstation under your desk.We use those extra machines for a variety of reasons but by and large they they tend to serve most often as foot warmers. That is not to say that they are unnecessary but rather they simply aren't used most of the time. If you try to eliminate one, you will surely need it within the next week but if your manager asks if it is really necessary you would be hard pressed to pinpoint precisely when the last time it was used for something really important. To developers, these extra machines are potential sandboxes for isolated experiments or testing scenarios. For managers, they are relatively unused capital investments that require inventory control and have depreciating value.
If you are a network administrator there are certainly computers in your inventory that are older and lack the capacity to be counted on for everyday use. They sit in a corner or in a blade rack and are probably idle or even powered off. These assets take up physical space and contribute very little to your data center. However, they have little sale value but may represent a significant investment. Or maybe you just can't part
with them for sentimental reasons.
Whatever the reasons for having computing resources lying around that are seldom used, here is an idea: Virtualization. With virtualized images you can use those machines for whatever purposes are required and for as long as they are required without having to spend hours loading them with a compliant OS image, installing software and configuring them for use. Virtual image libraries could hold preinstalled systems for almost any need. It could be for anything:
When the need for the machine is passed, it can be un-deployed and returned to the pool. This could significantly increase the available computing power of an entire development business. The ability to turn any machine into a needed and useful system on demand is real agile computing and gives a whole new dimension to governance.
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Using LDAP with WebSphere CloudBurst
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Expanding the usage of the shared caching service
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Attention Developers
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When I first started to become aware of the cloud computing movement, I remember being intrigued but not all that aware of its possible consequences to me. After all, I was a developer not a systems administrator, so other than professional curiosity why was cloud computing all that important to me? Maybe you are a developer that can see right through my early, naive perception of cloud computing, but maybe you are a developer that, like me in the early going, doesn't quite see why cloud computing should matter to you. In the case of the latter, I've come to realize that there are several reasons why cloud computing matters to the developer. Let me try to sum up a few of those reasons for you here.
Reason #1: Developer services can be delivered via the cloudThere are many different types of services that can be realized from a cloud (public, private, or hybrid) that could have a large impact on the way developers work. As I mention in a previous post, IBM announced a Tools as a Service initiative in which IDEs are made available within a public cloud. IDEs in the cloud give developers a single development environment that can be accessed from any machine at any time. Better yet, we don't have to worry with installing and maintaining the environment. In addition to IDEs in the cloud, with the increased focus on virtualization and virtualization management that cloud is bringing, the ability to rapidly procure and instantiate runtime environments should become standard practice. This means that new ideas and new product code can be rapidly prototyped and tested. No longer should a proof of concept be delayed because it couldn't be proven in a runtime environment.
Reason #2: Cloud computing means a world of new products and offeringsAs a developer, it is a continuous battle to keep up with constantly emerging technologies, but it is imperative that we do so in order to ensure we take full advantage of available solutions. Cloud computing providers introduce a whole new world of service offerings for consumption by application developers. Cloud providers are offering new storage solutions, new database implementations, new content distribution mechanisms, new application integration capabilities, etc. As developers who may potentially be writing applications that run in the cloud, these new offerings directly affect the code we write. We need to educate ourselves about these new services, and we should understand when these solutions can be best leveraged to deliver our end product.
Reason #3: SOA becomes more importantOkay, so maybe this is not aimed squarely at the developer, but I know many times a developer wears the hat of architect as well... even if they don't know it! In a cloud computing world, the applications and services we deploy to the cloud should align and fit into our SOA. This is critical if we are to fully exploit the benefits of ubiquity offered by the cloud. Cloud computing inherently provides the ability to access services from any machine with a network connection, automatically giving the kind of service ubiquity sought by many companies. By developing these services in a SOA-compliant manner, we extend the reach by making it more readily consumable by other application components. We move beyond pure end-user applications and services, and in doing so new or increased revenue streams may be realized for the service.
These are just a few of the ways I see cloud computing currently affecting the developer's role. There are a myriad of reasons that developers should be cognizant of cloud computing, and I expect the list of reasons to boom as cloud computing continues to advance. I'd also like to hear what you think about cloud computing and the developer, so post a comment below if you would like to join the discussion.
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Managing software licenses in the cloud
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Making the most of custom images
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Extensibility as the foundation of IBM Workload Deployer
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A different approach to migration
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Faster and faster
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CloudBurst gets it right
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Cloud Computing is essentially a Systems Management innovation. I understand that, to some, that means simply managing hardware and capacity or computing power. However, it also involves deployment of enterprise level software. While some software is a kind of out-of-the-box asset that can be installed generically as if it were a hard asset, infrastructure software like WebSphere requires considerable skill and knowledge.
Tier1 cloud computing implementations must be able to expand the enterprise into provided capacity quickly and autonomically. If the scale-out requires tremendous effort and specialized skills then the cost savings that cloud offers is severely mitigated.
CloudBurst provides a mechanism to quickly deploy WebSphere environments to private clouds and allows the administrator to simply manage the assets on which WebSphere will run. The expertise of setting up and configuring WebSphere is, in effect, canned. This allows for much more rapid deployments and reduces the need for more expensive admins.
While many companies are still putting forward more technologically sophisticated offerings that still require even more technologically sophisticated staff, WebSphere has produced a product with a value which is more easily realized, understood and which can be seen on the balance sheet.
- Scott Quint
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Update to the WebSphere CloudBurst Samples Gallery
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Using DB2 in WebSphere CloudBurst
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Haddon Hill Group and WebSphere CloudBurst
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FAQs Revisited - Part 2
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Sandboxes in the cloud
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In my prior job at IBM, I was, on more than one occasion, reminded of the pains of dealing with software development tools. It seemed to be a constant battle to keep up with licenses, install critical fixes, and update to the latest version of whatever tool I happened to be using. Since I often worked on projects across multiple machines, I had to ensure that versions of the tool on different machines were reasonably close and that any code formatting settings were consistent across the different tool instances. On top of this, the tools were sometimes so CPU intensive that multitasking on the same machine running the tool was impossible.
All of the above pains were a direct function of the tools being installed on my local machine, so you can imagine my interest in a recent announcement by IBM signaling the launch of a pilot program offering Tools as a Service. The program, initially offered to students and faculty of selected universities, delivers hosted software development tools to developers. Users of the development tools do not install, maintain, or run the products on their local machine, instead they access them through a cloud maintained by IBM. The tools can be accessed from any machine with an internet connection, and a developer's sandbox is persisted across multiple sessions. The developer simply logs in, does work, and at some point saves his/her changes and logs out. The saved changes can be accessed at some point in the future from the same machine or an entirely different one.
This is exactly what I needed! Like many developers, I wanted to focus on writing code not maintaining a suite of tools. I for one hope this eventually extends beyond a pilot program and becomes a mainstream practice. You can read more about IBM's Tools as a Service initiative here.
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Import configuration from existing WAS environments
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PaaS, declarative deployment, and policies
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Be Rational
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Talking security and WebSphere CloudBurst
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An overview of users and user groups in WebSphere CloudBurst
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Sharing your custom resources
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WebSphere CloudBurst Roundup
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Cloud Cells
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When we talk about clouds, we tend to think of the usual enterprise with servers centralized in data centers or in server rooms. At least, I do. But why does
Cloud offers the ability to do more than web commerce. The concept of cloud can have broad implications for all kinds of parallel processing needs. Right now, there are a number of organizations from SETI to large medical research firms that use volunteers on the internet to help compute through massive computational workloads. The ability to do that on a wider scale is limited by the need to deliver more sophisticated or even proprietary software on the member systems.
What if workstations could be conscribed to be part of a cloud? When the workstation owner is not using it, the entire machine could be repurposed for another need. Then during work hours, the owner's image could be restored. Private owners could even lease their processing time and make some extra money or earn credit of some kind.
Right now I am surrounded by several multicore processor based systems. Any one of them could power a web presence for a small business. All of them could power the website for a medium business. If I maintained a small cloud using the computers of my neighbors, I could possibly lease powerful computing cycles to render the next animated movie or to compute fractal geometry calculations for climate models. If I operated between 9PM and 6AM I could deliver more than a day's worth of computing gain. What would that be worth?
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Check out this new sample
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Cutting through the smoke
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Dustin and I have been seeingweb sites pop up all over the place with the word 'Cloud' in the name.Everything from web based remote PC services to elastic Web Mail.
I remember in 2000when Business to Business Integration (B2Bi) was the big market buzzword. Every company in the industry was claiming to be "The B2Bicompany". B2Bi was and is not an easy task. Everyone uses and storesdata differently; sometimes even within the same company. So whathappened? Most companies could not deliver products that made the jobeasier in a more generic way and it fell to services based companies.The expense soared and the results were generally poor. XML was justgaining prominence and few "B2Bi companies" ever even heard of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange. It was how businesses shared data before the internet became so capable). Thenet result ended up being that to succeed these providers had to scaleback their claims and muddy the definition of B2Bi. Now you hardly everhear it. The need still exists and the market is robust but the buzzword faded from the lexicon.
Cloud Computing is a powerful concept and the term can encompass many different implementations that achieve Dynamic Infrastructure, On Demand Capacity and Virtualized Enterprises. However, tagging glorified remote desktops and pay-for-GB mail boxes as cloud computing will do nothing but obscure the definition, allow charlatans to deliver poor or incomplete solutions and make it more difficult to convey the value of products and services that support true clouds.
Real cloud providers should be diligent in detailing their services and the value they provide. If the smoke is cleared, the view of the clouds will remain breathtaking.
--Scott Quint
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Using the CLI to expand virtual systems
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Value with IBM Amazon Machine Images
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About two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to work with the WebSphere sMash, DB2, and Rational teams on a pretty exciting project. It started during a meeting with the sMash team in which they decided to build a sample application to demonstrate at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week. Given the lead team the first thought was to simply show off the application at various IBM expo booths. However, we quickly decided the best way to show off the coolness of sMash was to put it in the hands of users. This led us down a path that would include Rational EGL capabilities, the WebSphere sMash Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and the DB2 AMI.
In a little over a week, we delivered a meaningful Web 2.0 application and put it in the hands of conference attendees. Using WebSphere sMash, we produced services that allowed users to view and search for booths at the conference. Each booth at the conference started with a list of keyword tags, and users could add more tags to let other users know what to expect at the booth. We also delivered a Buzz feature that displayed an aggregated feed from both Twitter and Flickr containing entries about the Web 2.0 Expo.
The Rational team, which was already working on an EGL application that would run on attendee handhelds, leveraged the services from our new sMash application, being hosted on the Amazon EC2 infrastructure, to add to their capabilities. Our decision to host the sMash application on EC2 was driven by two factors. The first was that we had virtually no time to go through the in-house server acquisition process. Second, given sMash's capabilities to export and import applications, we were easily able to transfer our local application copy to the AMI instance with no code change. Once the application was imported into the running AMI instance, we changed a single configuration file to reference our newly running DB2 AMI instance which stored the booth data for the expo.
I just thought I'd share this example to highlight a couple of cool technologies, Rational EGL and WebSphere sMash, and to illustrate a scenario in which the IBM Amazon Machine Images deliver value. If you have any questions or want to see some of the application code, send us an email. Here's a couple of screen shots of the application:
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