Mark Thiele’s article “There’s no need to be a one-cloud company” [http://gigaom.com/cloud/theres-no-need-to-be-a-one-cloud-company/] in GigaOM last week nicely highlighted a question we often hear from our customers: “Do I need more than one cloud?” To
Cloud
About clouds, the ones you run code on
My Surprising Cloud Cost Discovery
Once upon a time … There was a little startup. The startup had only about 10 employees and they all sat together in a local incubator. The incubator was kind enough to provide some hosting credits from some friendly cloud vendors,
Escape Velocity: Accelerating Adoption of the Cloud
Early adopters of virtualization and the Cloud will remember just how [http://loadstorm.com/2008/oh-my-nearly-20-it-leaders-think-cloud-computing-fad] skeptical [http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/10/ellison-cloud-computing-tech-enter-cx_wt_1010oracle.html] folks [http://www.tech-faq.com/why-cloud-computing-may-be-just-a-fad.html] were until recently. There are
Welcome to Our New Overlords at the Pineville Facebook Data Center
A new Facebook data center [https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=262655797130] was recently unveiled in Pineville, OR [http://goo.gl/7gaqM] amid a whirlwind of tree-hugging PR and controversy about coal [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/
“The Cloud is Down”: Single Points of Failure
The Cloud is down this morning and it’s all over the news. Amazon is having problems in one of their regions and of course it’s the most popular one, US-East in Virginia. Inevitably pundits all over the web
Using ssh with Amazon AWS EC2 Instances
How to deal with the constantly shifting fingerprints when you’re using instances.