Tag: Cloud
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Tempo, the data layer for the measured world
Cool and innovative idea, makes me want to play with it… if just I had an idea what to use it for?
Once we connect 50 billion devices to the web […], what will those devices talk to? Chicago Startup Tempo hopes those sensors will take to its database as a service — depositing their tiny bits of time series data inside its custom database.… Continued
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Wipro Building Global Utility Computing Platform for Enterprise Clients
Was about time the global outsourcers got serious about diversifying into IaaS and PaaS.
“Last year we began offering multi-tenant, virtual server hosting to our existing clients as part of large, integrated infrastructure management engagements.… Continued
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Designing Database Systems for Failure
Inspired by Amazon’s recent downtime:
As relates to disaster recovery of databases, public cloud customers need three things:
- Safe Data Guarantees: To have live, fully up to date and fully consistent copies of all your databases in a location of your own choice.
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VMware buys DynamicOps to manage Xen, AWS
This just in, funny how this is just as much about VMware as my last post before the break…
Deals of the term were undisclosed, although sources tell me the sale price was between $100 million and $150 million, and probably closer to the top half of that range.… Continued
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Cloud Databases
A quick aggregation of Cloud Database (or DBaaS) related articles I found in my feed reader…
- Native Cloud Databases – Why Should You Care?
- NuoDB’s Jim Starkey is Creating a Brave New World by Rethinking Databases for the Cloud
- DBaaS vs.
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Comparing SQL Server with SQL Azure
A good one, if you want to make your application future proof, as MS is working hard to bring stand-alone SQL Server in line with SQL Azure for future releases, and therefore is giving up on some of the concepts available in SQL Server today:
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A Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center
I’m cleaning up my blog and stumbled upon this draft… it’s still relevant, so here you go!
Cloudbzz posts their Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center, which is well lined up with what I’m expecting to see.
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BYO Oracle RAC on EC2
Former work mate Jeremy Schneider is always the first to look at interesting ways to use Oracle RAC – now he’s considering to run a BYO Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2. I kinda defeats the purpose of cloud, but it’s still fun the play with.… Continued
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Survey Shows Poor Performance of Cloud Applications Delays Cloud Adoption
Check this. Fun the read, quick to forget.
Compuware Corporation today announced the findings of a cloud performance survey conducted by Vanson Bourne. The survey of 677 businesses in North America and Europe examined the impact application performance has on cloud application strategy and deployments.… Continued