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The programming language Ruby is taking market shares. Now it has gained from 10 to 14% marketshare which is 40% more developers since last year according to Infoworld.

Ruby on Rails is a Danish development to the famous programming language Ruby. It is Evans Data North, American Development Survey that found the gain to 14 percent of developers in that region who uses Ruby. 20 percent of the developers expect to use Ruby in the coming year.

Linux continue to increase as the target platform for Web Sites and Deveopment and scripting languages for this platform has the highest growth. The survey reveil som other information which includes that Commercial SQL databases are 2,5 times more likely to be used as a primary database than free open source SQL databases. Also 60 percent of all developers uses a agile methodology and 75 percent of all applications considered for cloud computiong will require audit trails. Evans’s survey aroun 400 North American developers and measures the use of scripting languages, 3GL languages, and platform targeting and migration. Technology adoption such as Cloud Computing, SAAS, Web services, SOA, and parallel programming also are factored into the survey.

For many companies it can be cheaper to buy the same infrastructure as in cloud computing. This is the conclusion from the consulting and advisor company McKinsey & Company. The report assuming that many companies want to use a shared sky, which many european companies will not do. Most companies does not ike the fact that their data is not encrypted and available on Amazon or Google Servers. If you want to build and maintain your own PRIVATE SKY it is actually cheaper than the costs for estabishment and maintaing running on the most know brands of Cloud Computing Providers. It is because that existing equipment can be re-used.

The compare system is by using the prices from Amazon EC2, and it turns out that Amazon is higher insted of buying your own equipment and use it as Server Hosting or Outsourcing in a ordinary Hosting Center. Many other companies such as Appriro agree that it is cheaper when we talk about SAAS – Software As A Service. McKinsey is setting the price pr. processor in a arge datacenter to 45 dollars pr. month. Garntner Group does not agree, as they tel the prices are much lower and thereby there is a bigger benefit for the provider.

Verinet’s CTO, Steen Clausen says: “Only when you compare with PAAS – Platform As A Service you may consider tranfering your data to a foreign company like Amazon. In the Nordic Countries which has a very high penetration of using new technologies such as Cloud Computing on the market, most companies will feel safer by letting their local Server Hosting Center taking care of the data and servers.

This is the reason that not many companies moves to EC as they feel unsafe about the question to let a company with long distances and also different timezones taking care of their data and services. Also there is the lack of ENCRYPTION of your data in the known american services today unlike Verinet which is offering datasecurity which is certified and with 1.024 bit encrytion in real time, but even if they will upgrade to safe computing we doubt that any major company in the Nordic Countries actually will take such decision. Today many customers locally runs GOOGLE APPS, Microsoft Office, Open Office and many other ERP/CMS systems as a service in a datacenter using VMWARE, CITRIX or Microsoft products – and this is the major best breed strategic decision.

The new nesletter is online now for sending friday. The content is Cisco Fiber, SuperMicro range of products and new CITRIX products for Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Enterprise Client integration of all systems such as servers, notebooks, PDA and phones.
Take a look at http://verinet.dk/CLOUD_COMPUTING.htm

One of the new big topseller products which noone else can produce is the SUPERMICRO TWIN 2i1 RackServer which has:

• 2xQuadcore OR Sixcore motherboards in 1U for up to 24 cores pr. 1U.
• Infiniband SAN Switch with 8 x 2½ hotswop harddisk drive SAS or SATA3 or 4×3½ hotswop harddisks
• Silver or Gold level certified PSU system
• Price from 950 $ as Barebone system.

The other great milestone is a new servertype which is in the middle of a rackserver and BLADE SERVER and is competing with the best value for money, most green and highest CPU power pr unit. Actually the Server Blade Producers got to look for Supermicro new standards as they are taking marketshare very rapid and also take the biggest custumers such as Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Nasa, Boeing, Microsoft and many other of the biggest Enterprise companies.

Using the new AMD SIXCORE, Supermicro invented the high availability ow price rackserver with 24 cores. it is a 1U with 3×3½” hotswops dreives or 2U with 6×3½ hotswop drives. The price is fantastic and also the specs for these server series called A+ 4 Way Server Solutions. The New TWIN2 Systems offers:

• 2U system with 4 x Motherboards with Quadcore or SIXCORE and each motherboard for up to 48 cores
• 16 x 2½” Infiniband SAN switched system or 3 x 3½” hotswop disks pr. motherboard
• Best value for money, beats all Blade Servers in performance and price.
• Price from 1.995,- $ as Barebone system.

Also we take a look at GPU Teraflop Datacenter and Supercomputing using the SuperMicro GPU Tesla Systems. Verinet is selling the systems as a SAAS solution where you can use the servers for Rendering, Calculations and Scientific purposes from 1 $ pr. minute and 50% rebate prices from 00:00 to 08:00.