Archive for March, 2009

What differentiates Mosso from EC2 ?

Having talked about Amazon being the only game in town I thought it would be interesting to look at Mosso and look at the advantages / differences between Mosso And Amazon: From a technology perspective Mosso don’t provide root access to their severs. They  provide servers with the OS and software pre-installed. Mosso claims that [...]

New Case Studies for Amazon EC2/ Cloud Computing

Simone Brunozzi, technology evangelist for AWS in Europe, posted some further success stories / use cases for Amazon Web Services in Europe and Asia on the Amazon blog – I’ve reposted the article below as it always makes interesting reading to see how companies are embracing cloud computing, and particularly what the details are of [...]

How do you design and handle peak load on the Cloud ?

We see these questions time and time again – “How do I design for Peak load” and “How do I scale out on the cloud?”. First lets figure out how to give some definition for Peak load: We will make a stab at defining peak load as: “A percentage of activity on a day/week/month/year that [...]

Monitor Cloud Status from your iPhone

iPhone Application “Cloud Status” lets you monitor the status of either Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services, and Twitter in real-time. It’s a simple but effective example of monitoring-as-a-service. It’s available from Bablim Light Industries in the iPhone App Store.     

Vendors line up to use Cloud as differentiator

Vendors small and large are starting to see Cloud Computing as a great sales and technical differentiator. Three example of this are: 1. AMD pushed out press to let the world know it is saying “yes to cloud”. Whoopee ! To quote: “Advanced Micro Devices CEO Dirk Meyer sees cloud computing as the next great [...]