Category: Cloud
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Skype on Android – save serious money
I provide FogBugz training and spend quite a lot of time on the phone to the USA. I prefer to use my mobile phone with its headset but I really don’t like paying £ 1.76 per minute or whatever it is. I don’t even know what 02 charge me because I can’t understand their tariff.…
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Jenkins and Hudson; from below stairs to cloud 9
A continuous integration server is an essential part of many teams’ workflow so I have been following the on-off relationship of Jenkins and Hudson with some interest. I already use cloudy issue control (in fact I sell training for FogBugz) and now one can get cloudy CI servers as well. Read more at… http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/cloudbees_eclipse_plug_in/
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Amazon Content Delivery Network
In an earlier post I refered to Damon Hart-Davis’ investigation of cloud services because it followed the same path as my own with similar conclusions. He has now published a fourth part on Amazon Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN caches static resources closer to the user. This gives your user a faster browsing experience…
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What is cloud computing?
In an earlier post I reviewed the Cloud Computing World Forum show in London. In response I recieved a comment. How cloud computing is different from the Internet. More precisely, What is the difference between a “Hosted website” and “SaaS application”. One of the issues that was clear at the conference was the fluffy nature…
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Cloud Computing World Forum review – Microsoft strong, others weak
I attended the Cloud Computing World Forum at Olympia on Tuesday. It was good size show and reasonably well attended for what is an Enterprise topic. The keynote speakers were all heavyweight and gave good talks. The show was themed A,B,C = approach, build and communicate (social) and this worked well. What was odd is…
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Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google App Engine?
In an earlier post I blogged about my experience on Amazon EC2 (I like it) and referred the reader to an article on The Register from Damon Hart-Davis who is following a similar journey. Damon has continued his investigations and his next article is available. Readers of his earlier post will be pleased to see…
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Amazon IAM does not support Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Identity and Authorisation Management is now out of beta and has both a GUI and a command line unfortunately it still does not work with Elastic Beanstalk. It gets worse. You single username and password provides complete access to all Amazon properties including shopping and associates. So unless you want to share this with…
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Joy reigns with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon’s relentless drive to make infrastructure management easier continues with their announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The big problem that ordinary people (well developers and techies anyway) have with cloudy stuff is that although it is easy to start-up one server, choreographing the creation of an entire system, for example a load-balanced, three-tier system remains difficult.…
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Free cloud email – Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
An interesting announcement from Amazon which offers a free cloudy email service (my bold). Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) (beta) Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
Dr James Bayley 