India has the highest rate of adoption for Mobile. And the adoption drove the
big players in the local and international market to have their presence in
the Indian Mobile Operators space. In a similar way you will soon see various
service providers for Cloud Computing emerging and it is going to be the next
big wave after the Mobile era. If you take a deep look at the Cloud Computing
technology, it is nothing but providing IT related resources such as
computing, storage, Network, system security, application, platform as a
service. These services are charged based on the usage. Usage-based pricing
is not something new to us and our Mobile, Telephone, Internet and
Electricity follows the same pricing model.
Scarcity of Resources
India as a country with a huge population base has never been given adequate
resources to embrace innovation. The case is even worse if you ... (more)
What is Arecord.net?
Arecord.net is a service developed by CSS Corp Labs to address a specific
issue called Zone Apex on the Cloud & Traditional Computing platforms. For an
example, when you host your website in AWS S3, CloudFront or Elastic Load
Balancers (ELB), all you have is a URL generated, to use it as a CNAME. A
CNAME can be mapped to a sub domain to serve your websiste content, but not
to your primary domain (Zone Apex). You will always need a static IP address
to solve this issue and that's exactly what Arecord.net does.
How does it work?
It is a pretty simple process to s... (more)
We have been working with Amazon Web Services for the last couple of months
for various things and thouhgt of sharing our key findings with you all.
First of all, I would like to thank Amazon for providing such a great
experience to us , a simple webservice call , an instance of a computer up
and running. When we started our exploration, we got an account with Amazon
and working with S3 for quite some time. It is an another service for storage
and works well for its cause.
Then we decided to explore EC2 and started browsing various AMI's (Amazon
Machine Image) that are available. F... (more)
Eucalyptus Cloud Journal
Now we have a Eucalyptus' Private Cloud installed and running on our premise,
and it remained kinda of an artifact in our data-center for sometime. So I
thought why has not someone written anything about how make to make
Elasticfox work with Eucalyptus.
But there were quite a few pointers to what version will be ideally suited to
use for Eucalyptus, like this one, thanks Ajmf. I took the cue from there, I
enabled debugging on elasticfox, and used firebug to dig deeper. And I came
up with Hybridfox, yeah, and it works.
What is Hybridfox?
Hybridfox is an at... (more)
Those who have worked on EC2 must be familiar with the deployment issues, due
to the dynamic nature of the EC2 environment. Since we have been working with
EC2 for a long time, we have come up with a tool to manage our application
deployment using ANT(ANT is a build tool hosted in APACHE projects) and we
are sure that the rest of the world can also use it.
This tool is generic enough to be used in a non EC2 environment, but in this
article, we focus only on EC2.
About SmartEC2 Tool
This tool has bunch of ant tasks which can be used in the EC2 environment.
BaseTask - This is the base ... (more)
Ezhil Arasan is a research and development specialist at CSS Labs. One of his favorite platform is Cloud Computing and its related technologies. He has been involved in cloud computing for about two years and has led several projects in Amazon Web Services Platform.
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