Archive for the tag 'SLA'

Supporting SLA’s on the Cloud

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 [...]

Why, right now, Amazon is the only game in town ?

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 [...]

Could Amazon really pull the plug ?

One of the interesting things about the Amazon success story is that the EC2  virtual server technology is often assumed  to originally have been an overspill from Amazon’s own network and that Amazon sold the extra capacity that it had available and that was not being used at peak times. I guess we’ll never know [...]