The open cloud manifesto is the start of a great document. At this moment the document only contains words and information that is not particularly interesting for anyone. Cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Sun, Rackspace, etc) can do very little with it, since it does not get into any technical details. Cloud users can do even [...]
DNS as a Service (DNSaaS) is a term rarely used in the cloud computing forums. Many people is talking about standardization of the cloud infrastructure. How different cloud computing providers will inter operate within each others, is a fundamental section of our complex cloud. David Linthicum published a very good podcast about cloud computing interoperability [...]
Most people will probably not care, but having the ability of restarting a virtual server is a very hard concept to get. An Instance is just floating in the cloud. Not literally but in theory a Windows or Linux instance on the cloud is a lot of data being loaded by a hypervisor system (e.g. [...]
If you have a web server and you are suddenly faced with an overload of traffic to your site and you want to buy some time before you re-engineer your site with or without the cloud computing options in mind, you can build a quick reverse proxy squid server to help you out. It will [...]
Cloud Computing Expo taking place in New York City at the end of March 2009, is being promoted as way of Triumph over the Recession. Cloud Computing is definitely in line with green initiatives, and low investment startups, initiatives that will help the recession in many ways. Saying is the Triumph over the Recession it [...]
Last week I spent more than an hour trying to figure out why IIS FTP services were not working as they were supposed. Every time I use Beyond Compare software to connect to the FTP in my EC2 windows 2003 Server instance, I got an error. The error said, that I was: I [...]
Today at work I was battled by two coworkers that claimed that cloud computing by nature is slower than having actual physical servers. After a few minutes trying to agree or disagree, depending on the point of view, we start going into topics where our expertise was out of range and o ur guesses were [...]
Sun Microsystem, Inc. the multinational vendor of computers, computers components, computer sotware, and information technology services has announce its formal start in the Cloud. Competing with Amazon Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2) and Simple Storage Services (S3). Sun is currently the happy owner of MySQL database engine (the open source famous database). An incredible mixture of [...]
Dear Reader and Cloud enthusiast. The main purpose of this quick note is to help you analyze how Amazon EC2 Reserved instance new pricing scheme will impact your idea or implementation of the cloud. Basically Amazon needed a way on how to analyze growth and they implemented a contract term for the same instances that [...]
Business analysts, Developers, Project Managers, CIO, does not matter what your title is, go and get the space out there. Is just too inexpensive to let it loose. Stop wasting hard drives or solid state drives for the sake of having the data near you, unless you are Department of Defense, or any agency strictly [...]
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