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Open BlueDragon

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Straight from the Cloud Blog

We maintain a timely round-up of the latest and relevant news announcements from the world of clouds. Follow our output here.

Amazon Black Thursday (and some of Friday)

Amazon EBS suffered a major outage this week. This was a wake up call to those that relied too much on Amazon and not taking enough care, attention and responsibility for their cloud requirements. [read more]

Friday, 22 April 2011

Amazon EC2 Latency: The Pretty Graphs

Following on from my previous post, cloudkick, has published their network latency findings within Amazon's EC2 clearly showing a major problem brewing within at least one of their data centers. [read more]

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed?

Amazon EC2 is increasingly under load, but when you start to see internal pings around 7seconds with regularly shell freezes this is more than a freak one off incidents. Amazon appear to be struggling with the load. [read more]

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Dynamic Datasource Manipulation for OpenBD

Using dynamic datasources just got a whole lot easier with OpenBD by the introduction of 3 new functions to help creating dynamic datasources infinitely easier. [read more]

Friday, 1 January 2010

Amazon finally delivers on the data-loss on power-down problem

Amazon announces full EBS bootable images - this means no more data loss when your instance goes offline irrespective of where you have stored your data on the file system. Faster boot times and a new geographic location announced. [read more]

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Amazon takes MySQL to the cloud; or have they?

Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone. [read more]

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Engadget claims "biggest disasters in the history of cloud computing"

Engadget falls into the same trap that many bloggers/journalists have; not everything that runs in a browser is cloud computing. One server fault does not mark the end of cloud computing. It does leave many asking what cloud computing is. [read more]

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Amazon makes sharing data easier with shared EBS

Amazon releases the ability to share EBS snapshots so others can utilise and consume your data, irrespective of format. [read more]

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Amazon SimpleDB + SQS : Simple Java POJO Access

Amazon SimpleDB - SQS web services are within easy reach of any java developer with these 2 non-dependent class files. No fuss, no nonsense, just code that works. [read more]

Sunday, 6 September 2009

A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleSQS

A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SQS web service. Full API support. No dependencies. Just use it! [read more]

Monday, 31 August 2009

New buzzwords for business; the Cloud [Cartoon]

Business Computing and buzzwords, go together like cheese and wine. Geek'n'Poke takes aim and finds the bullspot once again with their latest cloud related cartoon [read more]

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is announced

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is announced in limited beta. Lots of interesting features and once again, they have moved the cloud world forward. [read more]

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleDB

A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SimpleDB web service. Support for all new methods including select, and batchputattributes. No dependencies. Just use it! [read more]

Friday, 10 July 2009

Rackspace wobbles but cloud remains

Hosting and Cloud provider Rackspace suffers an outage causing many people not able to reach their network. [read more]

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Google App Engine suffers 6hr outage

With Google App Engine going offline it is important to realize that even the big boys have problems. However, can your business tolerate such down times? Can you really bet your business on the cloud? Or is it too early? [read more]

Monday, 6 July 2009

Server Sales Drop 25% - Cloud Computing making an impact?

Global server sales have dropped 25% across the board. This is the worse drop-off for over 12 years. What is to blame? [read more]

Monday, 1 June 2009

How many servers does it take to make a cloud?

We love this new virtual world of ondemand computing, but have you wondered just how many servers Amazon, Google, Microsoft or any of the cloud providers really have at their disposal? [read more]

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Prague Cloud Computing Expo - core dump

Cloud Expo Europe was last week at Prague, and a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining cloud conference was had. Met lots of great people and spoke at length regarding peoples concerns about moving to the cloud. [read more]

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Cloud Boot Camp heads to Prague May 19th

Preparing to take our Cloud Boot Camp Road Show to Prague [read more]

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Closing Time

Another couple of conferences close their doors as we move forward into 2009. [read more]

Sunday, 12 April 2009

Cloud Boot Camp Post Notes

Cloud boot camp was a resounding success at Cloud Computing Expo in New York. [read more]

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Sing-a-long to Cloud Computing

Come on now, lets all sing-a-long to the cloud computing song, a parody of Joni Mitchell. [read more]

Friday, 27 March 2009

New York's Cloud Boot Camp Final Schedule

The final schedule for next weeks Cloud Computing Expo boot camp has been finalised. Looking forward to next week. [read more]

Thursday, 26 March 2009

Clouds make your life easier, honest!

Geek and Poke blog has a wonderful cartoon depicting the complexities of the world of clouds. [read more]

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

CloudBerry Explorer - a very polished S3 utility

If you are looking for a familiar interface for moving files up and down to Amazon S3 then you'll be hard pushed to find something as slick for the price. [read more]

Monday, 23 March 2009