Category: Infrastructure
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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 provides a facility to sell unused capacity
One of the potential risks of buying reserved instances on the Amazon cloud is that you might buy more than you need. This has been a consideration for me for hosting the Keyapt app. Now Amazon lets you sell excess capacity to other users. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace The Reserved Instance Marketplace gives you the…
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Turn your PC into a WiFi hotspot
Connectify Hotspot is a great free utility that lets you turn your PC or laptop into a WiFi hotspot. Typical use cases include You have an Ethernet connection to your laptop and you can now share it with your mobile phone or tablet. You are in a meeting room that has wired Ethernet but no wireless. Now…
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Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register
An interesting article on Windows 8 Server. Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer More than just a few tweaks… via Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register. Windows Server has always been the choice of businesses for system administration and file storage. The only significant competitive advantage that Linux/Unix had was…
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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session management. This seems to be a primary use of DynamoDB. Dynamo was born out of our need for a highly reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database. This non-relational, or NoSQL, database was targeted at use cases that…
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EC2 reserved instances for baseload
Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the hourly rate. Keyapt SMS have a server that runs continuously. Therefore we should look a…
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Amazon add Route 53 support to console
I have previously blogged about Amazon Route 53 and how you needed to use third party tools. Well from today Amazon Route 53 can be managed from the Amazon console. This is good.
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CloudBase Meetup – relational databases don’t scale
Last night I attended the CloudBase Meetup at Hackney Community College that was arranged by Shawn of Tech Meetups (well done Shawn). It was a good venue if rather hard to find and escape from. The speakers were: Steve Caughey, Arjuna Francoise Dechery, CloudBees Alvin Richards, MongoDB Richard Davis, ElasticHosts Kjetil Olsen, Elance Steve Caughey…
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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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London Silicon Roundabout September Meetup – Cloud Base – London Silicon Roundabout (London, England) – Meetup
This looks like a really interesting event. I will certainly be going. Enterprises are beginning to find that they just can’t do without Cloud Computing. Most technologies are moving off-premise to the cloud and bundled into a service. In fact everything is a service nowadays – 1. BaaS—Backup as a Service 2. CaaS—Communications as a…
Dr James Bayley 