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Monthly Archives: December 2010
AWS / Eucalyptus Metadata Compatibility
A small number of public cloud providers have a metadata service that allows virtual machines to configure themselves. We launched ours a few months ago. Today we are announcing that we have made it easier for customers to share images between FlexiScale, AWS and Eucalyptus, and thus have also made it easier to move servers …Continue Reading
Flexiant To Provide Test Bed For A 3 Million Euro Pan-European Cloud Platform
A plan to create a pan-European cloud platform moves closer this week following the European Commission’s (EC) acceptance of a proposal by a consortium of industrial partners including software and services company, Flexiant. The three million euro research and development programme is now underway following the successful outcome of hearings with all members of the …Continue Reading
Clouds slow things down
Ok, only one particular type of cloud – snow clouds. We haven’t been able to get into to our offices since Monday due to snow (up to four feet in places). Many of our staff can’t actually get out of their houses. Our intrepid operations director, Tabs, attempted to reach the office today, but had …Continue Reading
Scheduling Servers
Have any of the following ever happened to you? You don’t actually need all of your servers on 24/7, but whilst you try to remember shut them down at the end of the day, you keep forgetting; You need to organise a reboot for 3am to complete an upgrade, and really don’t fancy staying up …Continue Reading
