Posts Tagged ‘iaas’
Firstly let me say that I like Linode a lot. They had a promotion running a little while ago which got me going with my first virtual private server (VPS), and I only moved off to somewhere from lowendbox after the promotion because my needs are small (and I wanted to match my spend accordingly)[1]. […]
Filed under: security | 4 Comments
Tags: admin, Bitcoin, console, iaas, Linode, management, password, security, SSH, VM, VPS
My friend Randy Bias very kindly came in and did a web conference presentation at work this week on his views of cloud computing (which are well summarised in a post he did at the end of last year). Inevitably the topic of security came up, and Randy, drawing on his past experience in the […]
Filed under: architecture, cloud, security, software | 6 Comments
Tags: audit, bolt on, build in, cloud, compliance, firewall, gateway, iaas, paas, schema, security, validation, xml
A tale of two clouds
Over the past few weeks I’ve been kicking the tyres on two new(ish) entrants to the IaaS space. Both services are still in beta. Savvis Virtual Private Datacenter I first came across this back in June at the Cloud Computing World Forum, and I signed up straight away for a trial. Sadly there was some kind […]
Filed under: cloud | 1 Comment
Tags: API, aws, Brightbox, cloud, Hybrid Cluster, Hybrid Logic, iaas, Ruby, Savvis, snapshot, VPDC
Not Only SQL
No, or Not Only One of the most sensible things to emerge for the recent no:sql(eu) event (which sadly I didn’t attend) was a statement that NOSQL should be expanded to Not Only SQL rather than No SQL. This is an interesting development, as there’s been lots of good stuff going on in the NOSQL […]
Filed under: cloud, software, technology | 3 Comments
Tags: cloud, database, dba, iaas, nosql, paas, rdbms, sql, storage
Digital Economy Bill vs SaaS
This evening I was supposed to be doing a lightening talk on PaaS at London CloudCamp, which would cover the stuff that I did over Christmas and New Year. Hopefully I’ll get to do that another day, as right now I feel obliged to speak out about an amendment that’s been introduced to the Digital […]
Filed under: cloud, politics | 2 Comments
Tags: acta, cloud, cloudcamp, debill, digital economy bill, iaas, saas
Workload factoring
One of the things that IGT2009 got me thinking about again was workload. It’s clear when listening to people’s stories of what they’ve put ‘on the cloud’ (both public and private) that certain workloads fit more easily than others. The easiest pickings seem to be embarrassingly parallel high performance compute (HPC) tasks that have high CPU demands […]
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Tags: cloud, grid, hpc, iaas, paas, workload
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