by Lydia Leong | June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Two public cloud announcements from hosting providers this week, with some interesting similarities… Verizon Verizon has launched its Computing as a Service (CaaS) offering. This is a virtual data center (VDC) offering, which means that it’s got a Web-based GUI within which you provision and manage your infrastructure. You contract for CaaS itself on a [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, hosting
by Lydia Leong | June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
Everyone has vendor horror stories. No matter how good a vendor normally is, there will be times that they screw up. Some customers will exacerbate a vendor’s tendency to screw up — for instance, they may be someone the vendor really shouldn’t have tried to serve in the first place (heavy customization, i.e., many one-offs [...]
by Lydia Leong | June 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Recent links of interest… I’ve heard that no less than four memcached start-ups have been recently funded. GigaOM speculates interestingly on whether memcached is good or bad for MySQL. It seems to me that in the age of cloud and hyperscale, we’re willing to sacrifice ACID compliance in many our transactions. RAM is cheap, and [...]
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