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ControlMyCloud Goes Beta

December 14, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, amazon web services, Business, cloud computing, cloudability, controlmycloud, sensiblecloud, Service level agreement

One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance, cost or poor efficiency.…

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OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

September 23, 2011

Business

amazon web services, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, opensource, OpenStack, rackspace, RightScale

Yesterday OpenStack (disclosure, RackSpace, one of the originators of the OpenStack project, is sponsoring CloudU, an education program that I’m curating) rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally…

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Is the Stack Dead?

September 14, 2011

Business

amazon web services, cloudcomputing, netsuite, San Francisco, Software as a Service, Structure 2010, VMware, Werner Vogels

For years now those of us who talk Cloud on a daily basis have used variations on a triangle shape as a way to articulate what Cloud actually is and how the various services that make up Cloud can…

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Rolling out the Cloud to Australasia

July 22, 2011

Business

amazon web services, Australasia, cloud computing, CloudCentral, data center, Equinix, New Zealand

Spending as much time as I do talking about the benefits of cloud computing, it’s sometimes a little frustrating living somewhere that is generally the last place in the world to have access to technological innovations. Case in point…

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Standing Cloud–Building an Intermediate Layer for the Cloud

June 9, 2011

Business

amazon web services, cloud computing, iaas, Magento, PaaS, PHP, Python, RightScale, Standing Cloud

While in Colorado I took the opportunity to spend some time with Standing Cloud – a vendor that provides an abstraction layer sitting on top of infrastructure offerings that helps cloud users deploy, manage, customize and develop applications on…

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Layer 7 and Cloud Redundancy Through Brokerage

April 28, 2011

Business

amazon web services, Application Layer, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloud Foundry, Layer7, OpenStack, Savvis, VMware

After the recent AWS outage – much attention has been given to the need for cloud users to create redundancies across zones, data centers, regions and even providers. All of which sounds fine in theory, but gets a little…

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The Amazon Outage is OK, OK? (Well kind of)

April 27, 2011

Business

amazon web services, cloud computing, data center, Netflix, OpenStack

I’d kind of avoided posting about the recent Amazon outage – it’s an event that has had monstrous amounts written about it – some of it beyond hyperbole. Case in point; NetworkWorld says that; the Amazon outage set cloud…

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Commodity Clouds for the Enterprise–Inside the Economics

March 28, 2011

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud connect, cloudcomputing, Cloudscaling, commodity, Open source, rackspace, randy bias

Recently at the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Randy Bias, co-founder of cloud builder Cloudscaling gave a fascinating talk which sought to dispel many of the myths around enterprise cloud computing. Bias’ talk is an excellent way to…

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Datapipe Blends Managed Hosting with Amazon

November 17, 2010

Business

amazon web services, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, Load Balancing

There is an ongoing theme of companies setting up solutions to act as a central and neutral portal to organizations loud services – in the past few weeks I’ve talked to a number of people who, for example, provide…

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Google app engine pricing

June 3, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

amazon web services, google app engine

Google has finally opened App Engine to the public and released pricing information. In a case of “following the leader”, Google’s pricing closely follows that of Amazon’s; Google App Engine Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough…

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