2.0 Utility Computing Hosting Centers

• 2.1 Utility Computing Overview
  • 2.1.1 Architecting A Hosting Center
  • 2.1.2 Hosting Center Initial Configuration
  • 2.1.3 Hosting Center Advanced Configuration
• 2.2 Resource Monitoring in a Utility Computing Environment
• 2.3 Resource Allocation and Environment Management
• 2.4 Provisioning Resources and Managing Dynamic Security
• 2.5 Service Level Agreements and QoS Guarantees
• 2.6 Tight Integration with Customer Resources
• 2.7 Enabling Manual Resource Access Requests
• 2.8 Automating Resource Access Requests
• 2.9 Standby Resources
• 2.10 Accounting, Costing, and Automated Billing
• 2.11 Utility Computing Example: Setting up a Test Center in 1 Hour or Less

Utility Computing and Hosted Resources is a video tutorial of a session offered at Moab Con that offers further details for understanding utility computing and hosted resources.

A utility computing hosting center allows an organization to provide resources or services to customers where the resources or services are custom-tailored to the needs of the customer. Typically, supporting true utility computing requires creating a hosting center with one or more of the following capabilities:

• Secure remote access
• Guaranteed resource availability at a fixed time or series of times
• Integrated auditing/accounting/billing services
• Tiered service level (QoS/SLA) based resource access
• Dynamic compute node provisioning
• Full environment management over compute, network, storage, and application/service based resources
• Intelligent workload optimization
• High availability, failure recovery, and automated re-allocation