The issue of how much a cloud outage can cost your business depends on how much your business makes by the hour. Amazon experienced a cloud outage for a span of 49 minutes on Jan 31, 2012...

Software specialized for Cloud computing is all set to revolutionize the world of super computers.  Building a super computer by adding together many CPUs and memory is one side of the story but software is often the...

A blog by ‘ Google research’ describes how Google has awarded more than 100 million core hours of cloud super computing to academic research. Google was searching for research projects that needed 100 million hours or more and was...

Last week I wrote a bit about monitoring applications that are hosted in the cloud.  This week I am taking it a step further and discussing a few commonly used methods of analyzing the results. Essentially, there...

In Bangalore, the silicon valley of the East, there is a worried group of solution providers and retailers. The coming of cloud computing with its emphasis on ready to use SaaS applications and predefined server images have...

Small and medium businesses are using cloud based VoIP systems to cut down on costs and increase agility. Traditional fixed line phone systems are out. Setting up VoIP takes nothing more than VoIP phones (even they can...

When we think about cloud computing, we think of the data center as one homogeneous collection of servers and CPUs that are humming away smoothly to keep the web sites of the world going. The truth is...

If you are a heavy user of cloud computing and rent a large number of servers at a data center, it will help your billing if you pay attention to the CPUs that you are renting. Analysis...

With computing power so cheap and available so readily over the cloud, there are a lot of brute force solutions being used rather than spending a lot of time in designing something that is perfect  the first...

While the public cloud is the cheapest way to go to the cloud, moving data there involves some homework. If you have even a small portion of your data housed in your premises and another portion in...