Posts Tagged ‘ Amazon EC2 ’

UPDATED. It happens, once that one does something wrong without knowing where he is making a mistake.. This is what happened yesterday when I used mysqlslap test banch on an Amazon RDS machine. The problem is that mysqlslap does not measure query performance, rather connection performance. It is heavily influenced by latency and networking speed. Now, consider...
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Great service Amazon RDS. It’s on my to-do list to evaluate it from a performance-wise perspective. The evaluation is a must as AWS is known to have steady but slow storage performance, I wonder if the RDS team did tweak their volumes. But this is not the subject of the post:the fact is, there are two...
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While emotional thinking may feel right, it’s rarely the  way to see clarity. Chill down a bit and be rational: things will start look different, decisions will have better outcome. On October 26th I read the announce Amazon releases RDS, their managed MySQL service and the first thought was for the guys in Redmond and their...
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As noted earlier: transferring huge data files with TCP/IP between Clouds is a pain… Asperasoft is well known for their FASP product: a Layer 7 protocol for fast and reliable file transfer that found its habitat in the video industry. Borrowing from their experience, the guys at Aspera released an AWS appliance that implements a full...
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What a week. Organizing a CloudCamp for September is quite a challenge. Companies have full schedules, people comes back from vacation, the world of IT awakes but it’s not rolling yet.. Never mind: things are taking shape and we got a lot to show. First of all, a temporary list of planned interventions: Francesco Sacco (Bocconi Unversity) Josh Fraser...
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Be prepared for the first Amazon Job Fair in Second Life. Please be teleported here on  Tuesday July 14th from 6:00AM to 11:59PM, PST (in Belgium it will be between 3:00PM to 9:00AM of July the 15th). As far as I can see Amazon is looking for an awful lot of technical and non-technical candidates....
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I am referring to this article on The Register. The old man is not Richard Stallman but our holy Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO, for those living in a strawberry field), allegedly suspected of hazy practices. We even hear rumors that new stuff should come on EC2. Yay!! If true, it would officialy legitimate the Cloud, even...
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