Cloudiquity

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 [...]

Tags: Cloud Best Practice, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Data Regulations, Data Transfer cost, Dependencies, latency, Licensing, QOS, Standardisation, State, TheSavvyGuideTo

When  a distributed application is running in-house the IT has a lot of control over the environment. They know exactly about the hardware and resources available: network bandwith available network latency Now move to EC2 and other than some vague figures there is very little documented. The guys at RighScale did some tests for ‘EC2-EC2′ bandwidth [...]

Tags: amazon ec2, amazon s3, latency, performance