Pinterest is a Big Lesson on Scalability - Pinterest is one of those startups who to had to deal with an exponential growth of 10 billion page views. Going from 0 to 10 billion page views in less than 2 years needed to redesign their infrastructure several times before achieving full stability. Previously we wrote about the topic Scalability in Cloud Computing. Also, it is must to be mentioned … [Read more...]
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 and MySQL Easy Guide
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 and MySQL on Rackspace Cloud Server with Ubuntu Linux is written in easy language and as step by step guide for the newbies with all step explanation. Where we need this kind of setup ? this is for most of the CMS, Forum and blogging softwares. WordPress is typical example. But for WordPress we have our old typical guide and obvious how to install WordPress on … [Read more...]
Platform as a Service : Lack of an Ideal model
Platform as a Service or PaaS, lack an ideal and common model. Half offers no standards, the big providers are exploiting varied strategies for PaaS. We published two relevant articles on Platform on a Service - Is PaaS Model of Cloud Computing is the Future Mainstream and Overview of PaaS and Java EE. Platform as a Service : No standards, no best practices However, the Platform as … [Read more...]
Misunderstandings With Cloud Computing
Misunderstandings With Cloud Computing is common due to promoting strategies by the companies. Many investments in private clouds are wasted. The reason usually is that, IT-decision-makers consider the virtualization technology is different from Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is Not Equal to the Future of Computing and it is important to understand the Cloud Computing Service Models and … [Read more...]
Replication in Cloud Computing
Replication in Cloud Computing refers to multiple storage of the same data to several different locations by usually synchronization of these data sources. Replication in Cloud Computing is partly done for backup and on the other hand to reduce response times, especially for reading data requests. Replication in Cloud Computing : Basics The simplest form of data replication in … [Read more...]
Snapshot in Computer Storage
Snapshot as a word originated from photography. In computing, snapshot is the copy of a system at a particular point in time which can be restored in some way. In the area of distributed systems and Cloud Computing, snapshot is the term is used for recording the global state at a given time. Basics of Snapshot in Cloud Computing and Computing Storage Snapshot is a algorithm for … [Read more...]
Google Talk : Why Google is Interested About Native Cloud App
Google Talk was never a favorite to the advanced users and Enterprise users, here is how Google changed the way of usage and converted it to Google Chat. In our previous article, Google™s Cloud Computing and Branding Strategies in 2013; we wrote about Google's new set of strategies. Google Talk is such a Cloud Based Application that was never in favorable situation. Reasons were various - presence … [Read more...]
Google’s Cloud Computing and Branding Strategies in 2013
Google's Cloud Computing and Branding Strategies in 2013 quite significant. Google is taking approaches for increasing brand value through Hardware, Cloud etc. If you have some relationship with Google AdWords and AdSense; you will understand that, Google is gradually scrubbing out their "Daddy" like attitude towards even the small publishers and Advertisers. On the other hand, Google has … [Read more...]
Azure IaaS and Impact on Marketshare by Amazon and Rackspace
Azure IaaS is possibly the most important move on Cloud Computing IaaS market by Microsoft Azure in 2013. Unlike Rackspace, they have kept a free trial tier. Copy-Paste writers and general audience are getting much more similarity of Azure IaaS with Amazon; but the fact is - the real danger can be of Rackspace as the sole market leader of the specified segment for wider choices. Azure IaaS … [Read more...]
Xen Switches to Linux Foundation
Xen Switches to Linux Foundation, an agency that will ensure greater development for the project, now away from Citrix including Virtualization software. Xen is a hypervisor project, which is a software that allows to run multiple virtual machines on one physical computer. It originated in University of Cambridge and was under the U.S. company Citrix Systems. Xen switch to Linux … [Read more...]
Is Cloud Hosting is a Better Option for WordPress ?
Is Cloud Hosting is Better Option for WordPress? The right answer is - where and from whom you have heard it? Secondly why you are thinking of an upgrade? There are many things to know about before jumping from one service provider to another. Things like hidden costs can be the same as traditional web hosting can be worse. A free Platform as a Service (PaaS) is also a Cloud Hosting option and a … [Read more...]