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Is The Performance Of All Cloud Servers The Same?

By On October 6, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Cloud

One of the benefits of delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through the cloud is an abstraction from the underlying hardware delivering the service.  There’s no requirement to understand what technology is being used to deliver, for example, cloud servers.  The specification of a cloud-based server is based on a few simple metrics, CPU, memory [...]

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Is Amazon Silk Too Good To Be True?

By On September 29, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Cloud, Opinion

There’s lots of news over the last 24 hours about the release of the latest Kindle device (the Kindle Fire) and yet another browser coming to the marketplace.  The Fire will have it’s own browser, named Silk, using the analogy of silk cloth of being made up of many individual threads.  Amazon Inc are claiming [...]

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So Your AWS-based Application is Down? Don’t Blame Amazon

By On April 22, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Cloud, Featured

After a busy day in London I returned home to read the news of issues in one of Amazon’s US data centre locations causing problems with EC2 and database (RDS) instances.  It seems the services of many Internet companies were affected including Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite and FourSquare,  Is it [...]

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VMware Release Zimbra as an Appliance

By On August 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud, Featured, Virtualisation

At the beginning of this year, VMware announced they were to acquire Zimbra, a provider of email and collaboration software, from Yahoo.  Although the move was widely reported, it wasn’t on the face of it the most strategic of VMware’s moves.  The acquisition does provide VMware with more access into the [...]

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Atmos Online Goes Offline

By On July 1, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Cloud, Featured, Opinion

Chris Mellor at The Register picked up on the announcement from EMC on June 29th that the Atmos Online service is being withdrawn from production service and will return to a development platform.  In the future, Atmos Online will only be available from partners, however the other flavours of Atmos (virtual [...]

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Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation

By On March 15, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Cloud, Featured

I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening.  For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food.  Now free beer is good, however I’m not sure it’s good enough to make me want [...]

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