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Blog Post: Disk IO Benchmarking in the Cloud

Created: 06/06/2010 by CloudHarmony.com  Tags: AWS: EC2, Flexiscale, IaaS,...

New blog post: Disk IO Benchmarking in the Cloud, comparison of cloud server storage performance with 20 IaaS providers.

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Blog Post: Cloud Lets You Throw More Hardware at the Problem Faster

Created: 06/02/2010 by Lori MacVittie, devCentral  Tags: Cloud Computing

Cloud Lets You Throw More Hardware at the Problem Faster. Is that the best way to address scalability and performance?

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Article: Network Load Balancing Made Easy

Created: 06/01/2010  Tags: Cloud Computing, Storm, Liquid Web

Storm On Demand adds full featured load balancing for cloud and bare metal servers including sticky sessions and custom SSL domains.

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Blog Post: What is an ECU? CPU Benchmarking in the Cloud

Created: 05/29/2010 by CloudHarmony Blog  Tags: AWS, AWS: EC2, Cloud Computing,...

New blog post: "What is an ECU? CPU Benchmarking in the Cloud" Summary of our CPU performance benchmarks in 20 clouds. CPU benchmarks show heterogenous hardware a better platform for cloud CPU scaling.

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Blog Post: AWS Management Console Now Supports the Relational Database Service

Created: 05/24/2010 by AWS Blog  Tags: AWS, Cloud Computing, AWS: RDS

AWS Management Console Now Supports management of Relational Database Service instances.

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Blog Post: Introducing App Engine for Business

Created: 05/23/2010 by Google Blog  Tags: Cloud Computing, Google...

Google AppEngine to provide hosted SQL servers and custom domain SSL support by Q3 and EOY 2010.

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Blog Post: Does cloud computing need LAMP?

Created: 05/23/2010 by James Urquhart, CNET  Tags: AWS, Azure, Cloud Computing,...

With Salesforce.com and VMware launching VMForce.com, a Java PaaS, Google's AppEngine Java & Python PaaS, Microsoft Azure's .NET PaaS, and Heroku RoR PaaS, will there ever be a PHP/MySQL platform as a service?

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News: Announcing Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage

Created: 05/19/2010 by Amazon Web Services  Tags: AWS, AWS: S3, Cloud Computing, RRS

AWS releases reduced redundancy storage RRS option for S3. 50% reduced storage cost ($0.10 vs $0.15/GB). Provides 99.99% (vs 11 9s for standard redundancy) durability.

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News: Announcing Multi-AZ Deployments for Amazon RDS

Created: 05/18/2010 by Amazon Web Services  Tags: AWS, AWS: RDS,...

AWS releases Multi-zone RDS - synchronous MySQL replication to 2nd instance in second availability zone. Provides auto failover, but not read replication. Amazon is working on adding read query capabilities to replication server.

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News: Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud

Created: 05/13/2010 by J. Nicholas Hoover,...  Tags: AWS, AWS: EC2, Government,...

The federal government has moved the $787 million economic stimulus package tracking website, Recovery.gov to Amazon’s EC2 cloud. This move is estimated to save $750,000 over 2 years and provide better security

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