Leading Cloud Computing provider, AWS, launches Marketplace to provide access to myriads of softwares, enables 1-click launch, management interface over its ec2 platform. Provides a simple and quick way for independant software vendors to market their products, get access to large customer base and use managed utility billing model.
HP Launches Public Cloud Offerings, Rightscale follows it with adding support for HP Cloud. OpenNebula 3.4 Released. Instagram Cloud Architecture. AWS launches CloudSearch, IBM and Redhat join Openstack and more.
HP announced beta program for its publick cloud based on openstack. What does this mean for a cloud architect. Here is a analysis of HP Cloud, its features, pricing , getting started guide and comparison with Amazon Web Services.
Here is a summary of how Zynga started with traditional infrastructure, leveraged aws public cloud, and now is resorting to hybrid cloud strategy with its in house z cloud.
Google Presented Think Cloud 2012 Keynote for CIOs of top enterprises in India to give them an overview of future trends – mobile, social and cloud. And also introduced Google Apps for Enterprise and Google Plus.
how netflix has built its platform as a service using cloud computing, amazon web services, open source software and custom managment tools. netflix is one of the larges users of aws public cloud.
Varnish cache is a very effective tool to accelerate web sites and reduce loads on the frontend web servers and in turns on the databases. Here is a study to analyze the effect of varnish on a high traffic website.
How to make mozilla thunderbird look up exchange server ldap directory and how to make autocomplete work with displayname instead of default common name attribute.
How to edit and recover windows registry offline from a ubuntu linux machines using freely available tools such as reglookup and chntpw.
Here is a good news for the ones who would like to speed up their webapp my providing in memory cache equivalent to memcached without the overhead to setup and manage memcached. Whats more, the api is compliant with memcached, so migrating to Elasticache is a breeze.Quick setup, preconfigured parameters, push button scaling and no administrative overhead are some of the features of ElastiCache. There are seven differnt types of instances available for elasticache pricing from 9.5 cents for a small instance to 76cents for extra large instances.
cost effective solution to regional redundancy with s3 amd warm ami images and puppetin case one complete amazone ec2 cloud region goes down
An Introductory video explaining how you could achieve auto scaling of your cloud based infrastructure, such as Amazon EC2, with scalr and reduce server administration overhead in long terms as you scale up your IT.
