Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
The cloud price wars that began at the end of March have been all about compute and storage pricing. I don’t recall hearing network pricing being mentioned at all; and indeed there haven’t been any major shifts in network pricing. Photo credit: Datacenter World Network is perhaps now the largest hidden cost of using major IaaS providers, […]
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Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, Azure, bandwidth, cloud, GCE, google, iaas, margin, Microsoft, pricing, transfer
It’s been over a month now since the price drop announcements for Google Compute Engine (GCE) and the follow on price drops for AWS and Azure. This stuff has been well covered by Jack Clark at The Register, former Netflix Chief Architect Adrian Cockcroft, and my CohesiveFT colleague Ryan Koop. For an in depth strategic background I’d recommend […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, CAPEX, cloud, fungability, GCE, google, iaas, Jack Clark, pricing, RAM, Simon Wardley
Update (14 Mar 2014) Andrew Weir pointed out that I the price is per month not per year – corrected accordingly. The big news of the last day is that Google dropped its pricing for Drive storage to $9.99 per TB per month. Ex Googler Sam Johnston says ‘So the price of storage is now […]
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Tags: cloud, cost, Drive, free, GCE, google, IOPS, performance, storage
Banking on Ubuntu
TL;DR Banking CIOs may know about Ubuntu, and be vaguely aware of Canonical, but I’d be surprised if many could explain the difference in commerials versus Red Hat. Meanwhile engineering teams are content to stick with what they have in a combination of clinging to the past and seeking some mythical homogeneity. OpenStack might give […]
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Tags: banking, Canonical, cloud, EL, Linux, OpenStack, Red Hat, RHEL, Ubuntu
CohesiveFT video overview
For those of you wondering what I do in my day job:
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Tags: cloud, networking, security
Your own VPN in the cloud
Last week I saw that major credit card companies are blocking payments to VPN services: This is bad news if you want to protect your stuff online (or pretend that you’re in another country). One way to deal with this is to run your own VPN service in the cloud. This is of course of […]
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Tags: Access Server, android, cloud, iOS, iPad, iphone, Linux, MAC, OpenVPN, VNS3, vpn, VPS, Windows
OpenELEC dev builds
Over the past week or so my automated build engine for OpenELEC on the Raspberry Pi hasn’t been working. XBMC has grown to a point where it will no longer build on a machine with 1GB RAM. Normal services has now been resumed, as the good people at GreenQloud kindly increased my VM from t1.milli […]
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Tags: cloud, GreenQloud, iaas, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, XBMC
This post first appeared on the CohesiveFT blog. One of the announcments that seemed to get lost in the noise at this week’s IO conference was that Google Compute Engine (GCE) is now available for everyone. I took it for a quick test drive yesterday, and here are some of my thoughts about what I found. Web interface […]
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Tags: access control, cloud, GCE, gcutil, google, iaas, identity, image management, network, performance, price, SSH, storage, UI, web
Do VMs dream of real networks?
With apologies to Philip K. Dick. This post is going to address three topics: The relationship between a virtual machine (VM) and its network connection(s). The changing perimeter The role of APIs in controlling network configuration The common theme is dreams, or perhaps de/re(ams) – as the last two topics touch on whether something is de- or […]
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Tags: cloud, define, defined, deperimiterisation, deperimiterization, networking, perimeter, refine, refined, reperimiterisation, reperimiterization, SDN, software, virtualisation, virtualise, virtualization, virtualize, VLAN, VM, VMs
DevOps is really about design
I the early part of the ‘unpanel’ session at last night’s post Cloud Expo London CloudCamp there was a good deal of debate about DevOps and what it means. Some people talked about new skill mixes, others talked about tools. These are I think simply artefacts. The more fundamental change is about design. At the risk […]
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Tags: cloud, cloudcamp, design, DevOps, maintenance, manufacture, maturity, paas, purpose, saas
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