Lydia LeongGartner clients might be interested in my just-published piece of research, which is a TCO toolkit for comparing the cost of internal and cloud infrastructure.
A not-new link, but which I nonetheless want to draw people’s attention to as much as possible: Yahoo’s best practices for speeding up your web site is a superb list of clearly-articulated tips for improving your site performance and the user’s perception of performance (which goes beyond just site performance). Recommended reading for everyone from the serious Web developer to the guy just throwing some HTML up for his personal pages.
On the similarly not-new but still-interesting front, Voxel’s open-source mod_cdn module for Apache is a cool little bit of code that makes it easy to CDN-ify your site — install the module and it’ll automatically transform your links to static content. For those of you who are dealing with CDNs that don’t provide CNAME support (like the Rackspace/Limelight combo), are using Apache for your origin front-end, and who don’t want to fool with mod_rewrite, this might be an interesting alternative.
Category: Infrastructure Tags: appdev, CDN, Cloud, Gartner, research
3 responses so far ↓
1 Tarry Singh March 7, 2009 at 9:58 am
Lydia,
Good for you, hope to read that report from our corporate channels once its out but I’m wondering what does enhancing site performance has to do with a TCO toolkit for Cloud research?
Tarry
2 Lydia Leong March 7, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I just used a general subject line and tossed in some additional links.
3 Michael Blythe November 9, 2009 at 7:24 am
There appears to be a lack of research relating to TCO of cloud computing services and the ‘real’ cost of moving from a traditional model to the hosted approach. I will be developing a number of TCO based models based on my experience so feel free to contact me for more information if you wish.
Regards,
Michael Blythe