[A very innovative Canadian startup called Enomaly is offering a service
called SpotCloud that allows IT departments to sell spare compute cycles into
the global cloud market.
This service has been featured in the Economist
magazine and other media outlets. Spotcloud may be an ideal opportunity for
university IT departments and research groups to earn a little additional money
and familiarize themselves with the advantages of commercial cloud services.
Already university consortia in the US and elsewhere are exploring using the
SpotCloud service internally as part of their own offering or using the Enomaly
public service . Universities,
generally, have seasonal loads on their servers and so have long periods of
underutilized servers that could be offered up to SpotCloud. It is also ideal for many of the new distributed
green clouds being deployed on farms and
at stranded windmills. The recent Hewlett-Packard, AMD, Clarkson university
project is a good example of this approach.
Spotcloud allows them to quickly offer commercial cloud services without
going through the messy process of SLAs etc. It is also a great opportunity for
small business to experiment using and offering cloud services – BSA]
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