Category: Cloud
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Amazon AWS adds another high availability solution – DNS Failover
In the past each “9” on your availability cost about 10x more. So for example, 99.99% availability cost 10x more than 99.9% availability. Amazon is making inroads into these costs. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk already offers inexpensive load balancing that will direct users to working nodes and even start additional nodes when demand increases. That’s great…
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ant install, deploy does not work after upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 7
There are several issues the manager URL has changed the default tomcat-users does not give the necessary permissions ant needs access to additional jars the task syntax is less forgiving (to me anyway) All this and more in this great post. http://paulgrenyer.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/catalina-ant-for-tomcat-7.html
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Netgear WNR1000v3 router port forwarding bug
My router was supplied by Plusnet (firmware V1.0.2.30_53.0.66B1). It has several bugs in the port forwarding function. First the good news: It WILL forward port 80 to port 80 on another server Now the bugs: The User Interface prohibits forwarding any inbound port to other well known ports such as 8080 The User Interface permits…
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Office 2013 upgrade – red pill or blue pill?
The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red). Wikipedia about The Matrix movie I have to decide whether to upgrade to Office 2013. If I want my life to be easy I should just take the blue…
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A work-around for Samsung Galaxy S3 not being a drive on USB
I was distressed to find that when I connected my Samsung Galaxy S3 to my computer using a USB cable it did not appear as a disk drive. Android Jelly Bean 4.1 does not support USB Mass Storage Mode (UMS) instead of an UMS option, users will have to make use of MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)…
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“Big data” on AWS – Redshift
“Big data” is hot, hot, hot (Gartner hype cycle) and now supported by Amazon Web Services. Although pitched as “Big data” it will be very interesting to see the tools offering. I provide services to small to medium-sized enterprises and I am interested in how AWS can support the data warehousing requirements of these organisations.…
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AWS tools for Windows PowerShell
One of the most popular posts on my blog is my comparison of Windows PowerShell with Unix utilities. Readers may be interested to learn that AWS now has PowerShell tools.
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Amazon announce data warehouse back end solution
Today Amazon announced Redshift a data warehouse service based on PostgreSQL: Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications you use today. With…
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How to survive Windows 8. The official guide
The Reg. has published “How to survive Windows 8. The official guide” It is funny and informative. I loved this comment. Re: Windows 8 promises to be a disaster in offices. But what if your workers need to operate in a modern multi-media cloud enabled social web interactive multi-paradigm environment?
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Amazon web services support Python
Python is the new kid on the block. A relatively easy to use interpreted language. AWS have recognised this. Here is the press release (some what late). Dear AWS Customer, We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications. Elastic Beanstalk is an easy and fast way to deploy and manage…
Dr James Bayley 