Cloud admin on 08 Nov 2011
MySQL is the mainstay of most Cloud Applications (including this WordPress Blog !), however if MySQL has an issue, either through number of connections maxing out, or MySQL being locked and not available it can result in site outages. We’ve seen clients who have ended up with their SQL DB down from a couple of [...]
Cloud and SaaS admin on 05 Nov 2011
We recently started documenting the services we use on a day-to-day basis and it struck us just how much we use SaaS and Cloud Computing services. To that end we thought it would be fun / beneficial to share some of these and how and why we use them: File Server: SMEStorage We use SkyDrive [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 17 Sep 2011
The Amazon Cloud has now classed as being FISMA certified. FISMA is an acronym for Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA sets security requirements for federal IT systems. and is a required certification for US federal government projects. This is the third set of certifications Amazon has recently announced coming on top of VPC ISO [...]
Cloud admin on 17 Jun 2011
One of the interesting things that about the last 12-18 months is how the Cloud has put the power into the hands of consumers. What I mean by this is, imagine the following scenario in the world pre-cloud: “A user buys some software over the Internet or Shrink wrapped. They receive it and install it. [...]
Cloud and Google admin on 21 Mar 2011
Recently we had a customer contact us who had been using Google Checkout to sell an Android application. The customer logged into their Merchant account as they are prone to do each morning to be confronted with “Your merchant Account has been closed” with some templated details about why this could be the case. No [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Feb 2011
In a move that has put it into direct competition with competitors such as RackSpace. Amazon has announced that you can now host your website using an Amazon S3 Account. With these new features, Amazon S3 now provides a simple and inexpensive way to host your website in one place at a very cheap price. [...]
Cloud and DataGrid admin on 18 Jan 2011
An interesting article in the New York Tines online by Derrick Harris of GigaOM outlined the release of some customers using Clustrix webscale SQL database, namely, Box.net, AOL, PhotoBox, and iOffer. Clustrix launched in early May with the claim that it’s DB technology, which features MySQL like transactionality and reliability, could scale to billions of [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 18 Jan 2011
As storing data in the cloud becomes increasingly more normal users will increasingly find themselves in the position of needing to access different types of data regularly. To this end we are starting to see a new breed of applications and services which themselves provide a service that interacts with data stored on the cloud. [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 16 Dec 2010
I don’t think anyone would argue that Amazon S3 is the big bear of the Cloud market, both on the virtual cloud infrastructure and the cloud storage side of things. Amazon S3 has more than 102 billion objects stored on it as of March 2010. As befits a dominant player the interface that Amazon exposes [...]
Cloud and Security admin on 14 Dec 2010
If you did not notice the Gawker set of news sites recently has it’s online security compromised. You may not have heard of Gawker but you will probably know of the set of news sites they encompass which includes Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, io9 or Jezebel. Over 1.3 million passwords where stolen and uploaded as a [...]
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