Server monitoring gets hot SolarWinds, which monitors multi-vendor technologies running in house, last week bought Librato to extend its reach into the cloud. Librato is noted for its ability to watch workloads… Read more »
The value of leveraging real-time operational metrics for data has proven itself, but finding the most useful approach towards applying it remains elusive for most businesses. Read more »
Tis the season of “top apps of the year” lists. Many are skippable. But this one compiled by password management company Meldium, now part of LogMeIn, caught my eye. Based on the examination of usage… Read more »
A new service delivery model of the cloud, called Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), fills the gap that exists in the current cloud delivery models and offers a higher level… Read more »
This week, Amazon launched a feature called OpsWorks that handles the application life cycle management deployed on the cloud. In doing so, AWS has once again stirred up competition in the… Read more »
Almost every mobile application relies on a few essential services to deliver the expected functionality and user experience. SDKs and integrated tools simplified the mobile application life cycle management, but the… Read more »
Big problems with Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Load Balancing service in its US-East data center nailed Netflix and Heroku on Christmas Eve and carried over into Christmas. Netflix competitor Amazon Prime… Read more »
Cloud news you can use this week: rough times for Rackspace; a look at Amazon Web Services revenue; EMC-VMware come clean (kind of) about spinoff; and Heroku spiffs up its add-on… Read more »
Once again Amazon has experienced significant problems at its big US East data center. The snafu has taken down Foursquare, Reddit, Heroku and other popular websites. Read more »