Archive › July, 2009

Congratulations to ALL SYSADMINS — SYSADMIN DAY

Hi Cloud Enthusiast, Today we commemorate an important day in history, is the 24 hour appreciation day for our SysAdmins. Those who take care of our viruses, who makes sure that the Internet is up, and that we don’t get too much spam. They plan in advance, they keep up to date in technology so [...]

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Transitioning to a Cloud Provider — QA Session

Dear cloud expert or cloud enthusiast, I attended yesterday a webminar that RightScale and Zmanda offered online. I thought that it might be useful to have their question and answer session available to all of us. So below you can find all the questions and the respective answers that other people like you and me [...]

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Cloud Computing Barriers — Is it really security?

Today during a webminar hosted by RigthScale, Zmanda and Platform D about the transition to Cloud Computing. The host ran two surveys, which answers got me by surprise. First, discussing the barriers on moving your DATA to the cloud. Second, the barriers on moving your APPs. When I was watching the percentages of people that [...]

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News — Rackspace Down Again Two Times in Two Weeks

NEWS ALERT –The Rackspace data center located in Dallas is down since 11:05 am CST today. We are currently waiting in the phone queue to get some more details on the extent of this outage. Once we know more we will notify the cloud community. Please leave a comment when or shoot me an email [...]

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