Category Archives: Cloud Computing
An Announcement, a Party, and Six Talks at Cloud Connect
The week of February 13 is shaping up to be a milestone in the life of our company. There’s a lot going on, and we’d love for you to join us. Monday, February 13 We’ve got a couple of big … Continue reading
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday. This is a year end posting that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at … Continue reading
Three Lessons from AWS Rolling Reboots
Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances: Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1 AWS again shows that the web scale … Continue reading
AWS Rebooting 100s or 1000s of EC2 Instances for Security Update
I was just informed anonymously about AWS scheduling reboots across hundreds or even thousands of AWS EC2 instances. This is to “receive some patch updates”. As some in the twitterverse have speculated, this is likely a security issue and most … Continue reading
CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing
Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading