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 [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 17 Nov 2010
As well as being SAS 70 Type II-certified Amazon is now ISO 27001 certified. ISO/IEC 27001 formally outlines a management system that brings information security under management control, and mandates requirements that have to be met. Organisations that have adopted ISO/IEC 27001 may be formally audited to maintain compliance with the standard. As stated on [...]
Cloud admin on 14 Jul 2010
Again the ugly issue of what do you do when the cloud goes wrong rears it’s head. Right now if you login to box.net and try and download a file you cannot download a file. Instead you get a screen like the below. I’m sure Box are aware of this, but it again shows you [...]
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 admin on 01 Jun 2009
There is a good PDF whitepaper on using Oracle with Amazon Web Services which can be downloaded here. A tutorial by Amazon on creating an Active Directory Domain on Amazon EC2 is a thorough article and well worth the read if you intend to implement this functionality on the cloud. Simon Brunozzi from Amazon gives [...]
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