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Simple, Secure and Speedy – Part Two
Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) enables an user to deploy a fully customized Linux or Windows server in the Amazon cloud. Beyond the security provided by the built-in (Windows or Linux) firewall,...
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Why Cassandra
In my previous two posts – Simple, Secure and Speedy part one and part two – I pointed out that one of the most limiting factors in scaling web applications is the database. So while we could keep it...
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Are Amazon’s various “elastic” services elements of an elastic architecture?
If you’ve looked at Amazon’s published web services lately, you’ve noticed that there are a number of “elastic” services available from their cloud. These include Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic...
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Google leader says cloud deployment is not the complete answer
At first I was tempted to not post the analysis performed by Google’s Vijay Gill which concludes that an on-premise deployment may be cheaper than an Amazon cloud deployment if usage is high and...
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Microsoft’s New Cloud Strategy: Let’s Support Java
OK, so there was no DivConq in April 2010, but if there was, we would have posted an article about VMForce, the Java-based strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and VMware. This move allowed...
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