Cloud and PaaS admin on 16 Mar 2012
Looking to implement a PaaS. Wondering what product to start with or how they compare ? Well, there may not be an App for that but there is a collaborative spreadsheet. To view the spreadsheet directly on Google Docs click here (it seems Google only supports 50 concurrent connections of a spreadsheet so if you [...]
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: StorageMadeEasy We use SkyDrive [...]
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. [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 07 Dec 2010
New York & London, December 7, 2010 – GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments, has provided Yazino, a massively multiplayer online casino, the application infrastructure used to build the first cloud-based, social casino platform. Yazino is using GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) to scale on demand [...]
Cloud admin on 27 Aug 2009
It’s often said that the Cloud will be a game changer and disruptive and that statement is put out there for the future but I believe we have already seen a huge example of this in the mobile telecommunications domain. We have seen in the last twelve months the beginning of a fundamental change in [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 22 Aug 2009
What does it take to make a Cloud Computing infrastructure enterprise ready ? Well, as always, this probably depends on the use case, but support for real-time scaling and SLA support must figure highly. Software that purports to scale the applications on the cloud is not new, have a look at our prior blog post on [...]
Cloud admin on 03 Aug 2009
The Windows Azure cloud platform includes Windows Azure, a Web-based Microsoft SQL Azure, and connectivity / interoperability services with .NET Services. As with other Cloud platforms, Azure is a consumption-based pricing model. A summary of the pricing is below and more details can be found here: – Compute @ $0.12 / hour – Storage @ [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 08 Jul 2009
From the Amazon Web Services Blog: Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon Elastic MapReduce and the ways in which it can be used to process large data sets on a cluster of processors. Since the announcement, our customers have wholeheartedly embraced the service and have been doing some very impressive work with it (more on this [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Jun 2009
The recent Cloud Views conference presentations can be viewed below: Prof. Pedro Veiga Presentations / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009 View more OpenOffice presentations from Paulo Calçada. Luis Alves Martins Presentation / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference 2009 View more OpenOffice presentations from Paulo Calçada. Carla Pinheiro Presentation / CloudViews.Org – Cloud Computing Conference [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 08 May 2009
Some of the key things to think about when putting your application on the cloud are discussed below. Cloud computing is relatively new, and best practice is still being established. However we can learn from earlier technologies and concepts such as utility compute, SaaS, outsourcing and even internal enterprise centre management, as well as from [...]
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