by Lydia Leong | March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
First-generation CDNs use a highly distributed edge model, and include companies like Akamai and Sandpiper Networks (whose acquisiton chain goes Digital Island, Exodus, Savvis, Level 3). Second-generation CDNs basically try to achieve most of the performance of a first-generation CDN without needing hundreds of POPs, aiming for just a few dozen locations. Speedera (eventually acquired [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN
by Lydia Leong | March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
On my more cynical, read-too-many-press-releases days, I wonder if there’s some hapless, tortured PR gnome at Amazon whose job consists solely of vetting one empty cloud fluff piece after another, proclaiming how such-and-such a vendor is now offering deployments on EC2, and how this therefore gives them an on-demand cloud offering (“please think of me [...]
by Lydia Leong | March 6, 2009 | 3 Comments
Gartner 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 [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: appdev, CDN, Cloud, Gartner, research
by Lydia Leong | March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Spreading a little linkage… A blog post from Reuven Cohen of Enomaly, in the form of musings on billing, metering, and measuring the cloud, and specifically, Amazon’s current inability to offer real-time billing-related reporting for their cloud services. A blog post from James Hamilton, of the Microsoft Windows Live platform team, provides some brief thoughts [...]
by Lydia Leong | March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
In dozens of client conversations, I keep encountering companies — both IT buyers and vendors — who seem to believe that Amazon’s EC2 platform is the be-all and end-all of the state of the art in cloud computing today. In short, they believe that if you can’t get it on EC2, there’s no cloud platform [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, hosting
