The third and final episode in the Savvy Granny Cloud Channel has now been released.  If you haven’t watched any of them so far take a look as they are quite amusing.  Now at this point I must disclose that I currently work for the company behind them and was promised by our head of marketing that she’d make me a cup of tea if I did – not that I’m easily bribed you understand.  :) Anyway, I hope you enjoy and have a chuckle at the geek humour…       … [Read more...]

IT solutions provider, ioko and Sun Microsystems have come up with an entertaining way of getting their ‘Cloud’ messaging across to the masses. The first of three videos has been released starring Savvy Grannies Vera and Ethel who casually discuss their way through much of the confusion and complexities around ‘The Cloud’. The next video will be released shortly… watch this space..   Technorati Tags: Cloud,ioko,Sun,Microsystems … [Read more...]

Here’s an interesting article based around the findings of Sydney based researchers.  The findings confirm what many of us already suspected, or knew, that may of the “cloud” offerings out there don’t always hold up well to enterprise level loads (yet). The research is based around seven months of stress testing against the following three commercial cloud services: - Amazon’s EC2 - Google’s AppEngine - Microsoft’s Azure The findings did highlight that particular cloud services … [Read more...]

Wow, it’s been a couple of crazy weeks where I seem to have had no time to spend writing articles for TechHead.  I’m hoping that this will now change so more regular articles should start appearing on the site. As always I am open to suggestions for articles, ideas, format, etc – so drop me a line... Anyway… I thought I’d draw to your attention that the next London Cloud Camp is on the 9th July and is hosted at the Microsoft building in Victoria, London.  So if you’re local (or … [Read more...]

It would appear that Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) platform has been experiencing a few difficulties the past half day.  According to the CloudStatus.com Amazon Service status monitoring service it is showing as having a ‘Service Failure’ between 22:56 yesterday (22/3/09) and  15:58 today (23/3/09).  If your wondering how Hyperic, who run CloudStatus, monitor Amazon’s S3 platform here is an outline. I find it hard to believe that there was a total service failure during … [Read more...]

Just a reminder to those of you based in the UK that the London Cloud Camp is taking place this evening (Thursday 12th March).  I attended the last event and found it most worthwhile.  They run in the evenings after work so there are worries about getting time off to attend.  Here is a break down of the agenda and lightening talk speakers/topics.  Agenda 18h15 Registration 19h00 Lightning Talks - prompt start please! 20h00 Unconference Discussions 21h00 … [Read more...]

Hot off the Amazon Europe press this morning: Starting today, you can now launch Amazon EC2 running Windows or SQL Server instances in the the EU Region, enabling you to locate your Windows computing resources close to your European customers/partners, as well as to other AWS computing services (e.g. Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront). Pay-as-you-go pricing for Amazon EC2 running Windows Server in the EU Region begins at $0.135 per compute hour. To make it even easier to get started and to manage … [Read more...]