Now You Can Run Geographically Distributed Clouds With Nimbula
Nimbula (previous CloudAve coverage), the company that helps enterprises build Amazon EC2 like cloud inside their data centers, today announced the release of Nimbula Director 1.5. Nimbula Director is their flagship product that completely abstracts away all the complexity of the underlying infrastructure and offers a way to scale the cloud to thousands of nodes [...]
Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts
The AWS outage from last week brought the idea of “design for failure” into focus in many of the discussions around the cloud world. Looking back at the outage, it is pretty clear that only those apps that were designed for failure withstood the outage and the rest, especially the ones without even a DR [...]
Left In The Dark!
Last Tuesday a ‘perfect storm’ in the form of a double fibre cable fault in Western and Central Australia left almost the entire top end of the country without telephone, internet or mobile communications for about 10 hours. That pretty much amounts to ZERO communications in this day in age. I woke to find out [...]
Magnolia Effect – Should We Trust The Clouds?
Image via CrunchBase Today, the bookmarking service Ma.gnolia announced that they have lost all the data due to data corruption. They may not even be able to recover the data completely, thereby, depriving users of the bookmarks they saved on their service. Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web [...]
