At the heart of cloud computing

Posted by Mickaël Rémond on June 02, 2008

The XMPP protocol is emerging as the main protocol for cloud computing. Being robust and scalable, our XMPP application server solution are today at the heart of several cloud computing platforms.

The term of cloud computing is often used to describe a deployment of applications across a combination of connections, software and services accessed over a network. The words are close to grid computing.

Vertebra, developed by the Engine Yard, is one of the cloud platform built upon ejabberd.

The presentation of Ezra Zygmuntowicz at RailsConf 2008 describes the details of the platform:



Categories: Jabber / XMPP  ejabberd  

Comments

anonymous avatar

In my opinion, the word “grid” is improper and misleading. Computers in grid have common computational resources (memory, CPU etc.) making one super-computer. Here they dealt with XMPP protocol to distribute tasks, e.g on Internet (Google Gmail, Clendar, etc. do this already). On the contrary, Internet based Grid computing is impossible. It needs far higher speed channels and other protocols.

Posted by Andrew on 04 Jun 2008 at 16:28



 


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