Tag: Cloud computing
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How to backup data to OneDrive in “real-time”
I am setting up my daughter’s laptop for university. As a student she can purchase Microsoft 365 University edition for a small price for 4 years. This comes with 1 TB cloud storage called OneDrive. This is highly available, redundant storage that should be utilised as much as possible. When planning backup schemes we need…
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CloudFront now supports 20 GB downloads
An interesting announcement from Amazon AWS. Now CloudFront can be used to deliver even the largest types training materials and software. The ability to use custom origins will be interesting to users who store their content in their own content management systems (CMS). Amazon CloudFront: Announces Support for Delivery of Files up to 20 GB…
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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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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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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 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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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 