Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 03 Jul 2009
When deploying on EC2 even though Amazon provides the hardware infrastructure, you still need to tune your instances operating system and monitor your application. You should review your hardware/software requirements and review your application design and deployment strategy The Operating System Change ulimit ‘ulimit’ Specifies the number of open files that are supported. If the [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Jun 2009
Having worked on a number of projects with Amazon Web Services recently the one non-technical thing that has stood out is the billing model that Amazon adopts which basically forces the company to have a credit card available and then Amazon produce an email with the least amount of information possible on it to tell [...]
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 [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid admin on 16 May 2009
This session was presented at Cloud Slam 09 by Nati Shalom CTO of GigaSpaces. It provides a practical guideline addressing the common challenges of developing and deploying an existing enterprise application on the cloud. Additionally, you will get the opportunity for hands-on experience running and deploying production ready applications in a matter of minutes on [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Security admin on 29 Apr 2009
Compliance and regulatory concerns are often voiced when it comes to Cloud Computing, and often many of the interesting types of applications organisations would like to deploy to the cloud are often those governed by some form of regulatory standard. Lets look in more details at one of these. PCI DSS is a set of comprehensive requirements [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 27 Apr 2009
Amazon limit the Windows AMI instance to 10GB in size which almost makes the image unusable if you try and add other software within the windows C Drive. Windows is notoriously heavy on disk space and whereas 10 GB may seem a lot believe us, it isn’t when it comes to windows and a combination [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Apr 2009
A research paper on Cloud Computing by McKinsey & Company entitled ‘Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing’ has kicked up a right old storm with various luminaries either for or against it. The premise of the results of the article are that for large organisations, if they adopt the cloud model, then they would be [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 02 Mar 2009
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 [...]
Cloud and Grid admin on 28 Feb 2009
A recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree totally with the article, but the ethos behind the article i.e. making it easier to trial products, try out solutions and build apps /services quicker to be build internal business cases is [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 27 Feb 2009
Amazon is currently the big bear of Cloud Computing Platforms. It’s web services division has proved disruptive and consistently shown innovation and breadth of services within its platform. It is growing at a rapid rate. Forty per cent of Amazon’s cross revenues are from its 3rd party merchants. Amazon Web Services is an extension of [...]
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