• FieldView: The Taxonomy Of DCIM Is Crystalizing

  DCIM provider FieldView Solutions now monitors 2.5 gigawatts of data center space located on six continents, and has been gaining traction in the multi-tenant data center space. The company believes that we are now past the peak of the hype, and now is the time for the DCIM marketplace vendors to…

• Microsoft Details Patent Application for Performance-Based Cloud Pricing

  Microsoft researchers have announced a patent application for performance-based pricing models for cloud computing. The inventors suggest that performance-based pricing will allow clients to purchase the resources they require without paying for excess, while retaining cost certainty.

• AWS Training and Certification for Developers and SysOps

  I have written about the AWS Training and Certification program several times in the past year or so. We want to help you to learn more about how to design, build, and run applications on AWS (that's the training part)....

• Launch AWS Marketplace Software into VPCs With 1-Click

  The AWS Marketplace helps you to find, buy, and immediately start using a wide variety of software and services. You can launch pre-configured software and pay only for what you use, by the hour or by the month. Today we...

• NYTimes Architecture: No Head, No Master, No Single Point of Failure

  Michael Laing, a Systems Architect at NYTimes, gave this great decription of their use of RabbitMQ  and their overall architecture on the RabbitMQ mailing list. The closing sentiment marks this as definitely an architecture to learn from: Although it may seem complex, nyt⨍aбrik has simple…

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• AWS Week in Review - January 6, 2013

  Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 6 I noticed that the EC2 Public IP Address Ranges had been updated. Tuesday, January 7 We added Two New Locations (Taipei and Rio de Janeiro)...

• Intel-Aerospike AppNexus Case Study [sponsor]

  Words from the long time sponsors of this blog, Aerospike : This new Intel case study explains how the world's largest independent advertising platform, AppNexus, increased their performance, reliability and serviceability while reducing each cluster size from about 50 machines to 8 by…