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Amazon Adds Access Logs for CloudFront Streaming
A persistent issue with Amazon’s CloudFront is the lack of analytics available – what’s the point of hosting your video on CloudFront when you can’t tell if anyone watched it or if user’s quit after the first 3 seconds. Today’s announcement of … Continue reading
Amazon Introduces SNS (Simple Notification Service)
Amazon today announced the Beta of its SNS (Simple Notification Service) service. SNS is a “push” messaging service for delivering real-time notifications to subscribers. Amazon already offers a non-push messaging service (SQS) which is primarily used for distributed applications to … Continue reading
CloudKick Adds Hybrid On-Premise / Cloud Monitoring
CloudKick , the cloud monitoring startup has just announced the availability of CloudKick Hybrid. The Hybrid product allows admins to monitor both on-premise and cloud server in a single control panel. CloudKick’s monitoring tool is web-based and tracks load, CPU, … Continue reading
Windows Azure WrapUp
Windows Azure is just 2 months old and there are still a lot of unknowns regarding it. A couple of articles which might help clear some things up: A detailed review of Windows Azure. A pricing comparison between Azure and … Continue reading
Windows License Mobility for EC2 [News]
Microsoft and Amazon announced Windows License Mobility which allows enterprise license holders to migrate their licenses to Amazon’s EC2 instances. The program is currently running only as a pilot and Microsoft only allows the license to be used for Windows … Continue reading
Akamai Announces Akamai Download Analytics [News]
Akamai, the leading CDN vendor, just announced the introduction of the Akamai Download Analytics. Getting useful data on files served over CDN’s has long been a pain-point for CDN users. Akamai Download Analytics hopes to address this by providing the … Continue reading
Rackspace Cloud Servers to Offer Oracle [News]
Rackspace just announced that its offer Oracle on its Cloud Servers product. AWS has had Oracle offerings for some time now and the announcement by Rackspace is clearly a move into the enterprise market which is a major target of … Continue reading
Website Migration Checklist
Over the years I think I have migrated about 30 sites (normally to different CMS platforms) and there are always unique issues involved in every migration. Although each migration is unique there are some common issues that need to be … Continue reading
10 Best Practices to Speed Up Your Site – Part II
Continuing from Speed up Your Site Part I : 6. Minimize Hits to the Database Why is caching so effective? It reduces requests to both the server for processing and to the database for data. Database operations are very expensive … Continue reading
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Cloud Computing Economics
Great video from James Hamilton of AWS demonstrating the eocnomics of data centers and cloud computing. Ever wonder where the cost is consumed or why cloud computing is more efficient. Did you know that power is only 13% of the … Continue reading