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In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary about the cloud this week (and with Dreamforce happening, there were some great ones):
Cloud Tweets
In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary about the cloud this week (and with Dreamforce happening, there were some great ones):
Cloud Tweets
@petercoffee (Peter Coffee) tweeted: "If you think an on-premise database is ipso facto more secure, you seriously need to spend ten minutes athttp://tinyurl.com/24nsno3"
This might sound familiar: you’re seeing a traffic surge, thanks to a promotion or helpful link from elsewhere. You’re a little uncertain your site is going to be able to handle the growing traffic, so you call your hosting company - who informs you that, sure, you can upgrade, but it will take a few days. Meanwhile, you run the risk of getting shutdown just as more potential customers are coming to your site.
We're delighted to announce that we have closed Series B financing of $3 million. The round was led by Avalon Ventures, a San Diego and Boston fund with several prior cloud computing-related investments. Foundry Group, which led our Series A rounds totaling $2 million, also participated in the round.
Our app library grows again. Today we added tools for website analytics and project management (we grabbed these descriptions from the horse's mouth):
Cloudbzz has written about some of the options for deploying RDBMS/SQL databases in the cloud, including:
- Do it yourself: Deploy a cloud server and install/configure/tune the database
- Service-based DBaaS: Typically, pick a boot image that already has the database installed in a default configuration. Use existing facilities for backups and/or monitoring.
If you talk to Dave Jilk, he will tell you about how we're "reimagining hosting," moving from a way of thinking about managing apps on shared servers that is very 1999 to one that uses cloud technology to address current needs for flexibility, simplicity and control.
In case you missed it, here’s some of the most insightful, informative and occasionally funny commentary on the cloud this week:
Cloud Tweets
If you’re reading this blog, you may not be thinking about the Apache server that delivers its pages, nor about the Wordpress application that we use to produce and manage the content. Nor the cloud it’s running on (GoGrid) or the constant monitoring and backups that are happening in the background. And there’s no reason you should.