June 11th, 2011 | by anoop | tech |
Cloud computing is the latest phenomenon in the IT world. However, the emergence of standards is a sign of market maturity, and it can be a big mistake to commit to products from a market that is not mature. That’s why everyone is asking, “When will we see some cloud standards?” Unfortunately, there’s no simple [...]
May 31st, 2011 | by anoop | tech |
Last week, Amazon Web Services announced the addition of a new capability to their cloud based monitoring serviceCloudWatch. The new addition allows application developers and server administrators to push a custom metric into CloudWatch. Earlier there were only predefined metrics such as CPU usage or Memory. Now even the custom metrics (say number of visitors) [...]
April 27th, 2011 | by Santo | tech |
The recent Amazon Web Services outage was one of the most severe ones. It lasted for upwards of 3 days from some companies/applications that were delivering on top of the same. Some of the prominent services / applications partially or fully affected by it were Quora (www.quora.com) Reddit (www.reddit.com) Heroku (www.heroku.com) Surprisingly services like Netflix [...]
June 10th, 2009 | by spvijay | tech |
Amazing Amazon EC2.. We badly needed a new server for a demo and our existing server had some issues. Could get a Win2003 server in flat 10 minutes at 4 AM IST. Just cannot imagine such a QoS with traditional data centers. “Jai Ho” to the power of cloud computing and to Amazon for making [...]
March 20th, 2009 | by Santo | news, tech |
There has been an upsurge in the work engagements that we are doing at Neev that are based on various Cloud computing platforms that are now available in the market. Saurabh and Me had previously worked at Pi now decho where we were one of the select initial Beta testers for the Amazon S3 platform [...]