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March 5, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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Its time for auto scaling - avoid peak load provisioning for web applications

Good blog-post on an old-trick:

February 24, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront delivers your content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your objects are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.

February 24, 2009
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Cloud Computing: Are You Looking for IaaS or PaaS Provider?

Microsoft, offers a way to host your .Net applications on the Cloud with a pricing model yet to be officially announced, and offers integration with some Microsoft services/applications.

February 24, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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Cloud definition misses the point....

Here are the three criteria I have for determining whether something is a cloud service or not:

February 24, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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Cloud definitions in despair.. (Gartner)

Cloud definitions are vague.

That is - how can we expect IT people to be able to strategize and decide on IT direction and tactics if we can't even describe for them what the real issues are in any consistent way. For that, we need a commonly accepted definition, even if it is not great.

February 24, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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Clouded Vision

Cloud computing platforms offer many benefits including:

February 24, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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CloudMQ

Platform components as a service will hit the software marked hard in 2009 and 2010, but until developers and architects understand how to leverage the platform components in a clear and consistent way, they will add more pain than salvation... Read up on some of the architecture axioms and distributed architectures and analyse your current design and architectures before moving to platform component services is advised. :)

February 24, 2009
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Clouds only for tactical projects until 2012 - Gartner misses the point... (again)

The cloud computing market is in a period of excitement, growth and high potential, but will still require several years and many changes in the market before cloud computing -- or service-enabled application platforms (SEAPs) -- is a mainstream IT effort, according to Gartner, Inc.

February 24, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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Considerations in Building Web Applications for the Amazon Cloud

1. Licensing - If you stay Open Source you are OK... Commercial Licences may kill your budget..
1. Persistence - Application persistence.. Amazon does not like filesystems, use DB for persistence...
1. Horizontal Scalability. Not sure that this gets the point.. vertical scalability should work even better on Amazon. Anyone?
1. Disaster Recovery. Its a distributed system - cope and be happy :)

February 24, 2009
in Cloud Computing
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Free SimpleDB Beta Cloud from Amazon

For "at least" the next six months, Amazon will provide a certain amount of free cloud sitting. Every month, SimpleDB users will receive 25 machine hours, 1GB of data transfers in, 1GB of transfers out, and 1GB of storage at no charge. Once those freebies are exhausted, you'll pay $0.14 per machine hour, $0.10 per GB in, $0.10 to $0.17 per GB out, and $0.25 per GB of storage. Storage pricing is down 83 per cent from the cloud's limited beta.