Know When Your Server Will Fail Before it Actually Happens
When your server goes down, it’s bad enough –even worse if you have to keep on trying to reach support in vain, then if you finally get through, you’ll have to convince them there’s trouble. If you have such a host, run! (and I can even tell you where to). So whenever I ran into [...]
StrataScale – Hosting for the Edge Cases
There’s quite a divide between traditional hosting in physical servers and the somewhat ethereal (actually completely ethereal) concept of cloud hosting. Into this breech walks StrataScale. StrataScale call themselves the first fully managed server hosting solution – that’s physical servers, not virtual ones. In an answer to many peoples concerns around virtualization and cloud storage, [...]
Cloud-Bashing Keeps Us On Our Toes
I have a web-friend who’s of-late taken an interest in Cloud Computing and sent me a couple of posts questioning the those of us who herald Cloud Computing as a paradigm shift. First comes the Financial Times where Fabio Banducci wrote using the example of YouTube to refute the claims of Lew Moorman, CSO of [...]
The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC
2008 REDUX Another piece in the 2008 Redux series, originally posted in March 2008. The computing landscape has somewhat changed with the appearance of netbooks, but I am still waiting for the cellphone-aware PC-less PC. Mike Egan @ Computerworld makes the case for PC’s to be smarter, with improved awareness of cell-phones, which means of [...]
