Following on from my previous post, I thought I would do a little more work on cloud server performance. First, it’s worth looking at the underlying hardware serving virtual servers in the cloud. As I’ve been using CentOS as the base O/S for my testing, it’s pretty simple to get a summary of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stephen Foskett has been posting some interesting commentary over the last week relating to cloud standards and today discussed the Zend API for PHP. In previous posts, he’s mentioned the SNIA initiative amongst others. Have a look at this great post he wrote on why [...]
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