JRubyConf 2010
ELC is proudly sponsoring JRubyConf this year. This year, we’ve seen more and more cases of JRuby making its way into existing Java-centric enterprises and bootstrapped startups alike. As the Ruby ecosystem keeps growing, new VM/Implementation ...
RightScale: How The Cloud Will Scale
RightScale, which was built by ELC on top of Amazon’s EC2 cloud service is featured today in a ReadWriteWeb story that highlights some impressive cloud growth numbers, including an increase in cloud computing usage growth of 1000% in just one year.
Cloudy With A Chance of DNS Services
Here is an idea what to do if you are tired of managing DNS servers. BlueCat Networks’ Proteus Cloud Services is the first managed DNS service to offer IP address management (IPAM) hosted in the cloud.
160,000 Phones Each Day Do Not Lie
Smart phones are redefining the definition of mass market. The iPhone is routinely shattering sales records, but feels Android phones breathing down its neck. There are massive volumes in play and it is critical to your business to choose the right pla...
How To Reduce Your Cloud Hosting Cost
When you are planning hardware resources for a web presence that needs to be available, you tend to assume the worst case scenario, the maximum connections that need to be supported - and then some to make sure you don’t go down when there is one or ...
Dreamworks Big Into Cloud Computing
Future animations from Dreamworks SKG will not be rendered on its own servers anymore, but outsourced to Cerelink, the studio announced. The company said that it will use Cerelink’s supercomputing infrastructure at the New Mexico Applications Centre ...
Government Approves Cloud Apps
If there is a concern about cloud applications that we here of these days, then it certainly is the security of cloud apps. Where is the data stored? How secure is the environment? Can it be as secure as if you were to store the data locally? Of course...
Cloud Moving Into The Enterprise Fast
Savvis this morning posted the results of a new survey, which indicates that decisions makers and executives are more and more looking to the cloud as a way to recover from the global economic downturn.
Facebook Apps Are Going Mobile
As Facebook is getting ready to announce a registered user base of 500 million, there is also some interesting news that the company will be enabling the development of mobile applications for the social network. While most of Facebook’s services are...
The Linux of The Cloud? Rackspace OpenStack.
One of the leading IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers, Rackspace, today said that it is open sourcing its cloud platform. OpenStack represents the full software stack behind the company’s cloud servers as well as cloud files offerings. Open...
Amazon EC2, HPC Edition
We have been proponents of Amazon’s EC2 service from the very beginning and – warning: shameless self-promotion – have built some pretty impressive applications on top of it. Check out the Sweety High social networking site, for example. No...
VMware Embraces Cloud Computing
VMware has just announced a new version of its virtualization platform vSphere. It may not be too surprising that the new version 4.1 is introduced with a focus on cloud computing abilities and benefits, but it is remarkable nevertheless. VMware says v...
