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Scalr goes Enterprise! But what does that mean?! 31 Jul 2013 | 08:40 am
Everyone’s talking about it: the Enterprise is “going Cloud”. And the Cloud’s giving back: AWS is hiring Enterprise salespersons, OpenStack is “going E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E”, and Venturebeat made “The Ri...
Behind the scenes: the Farm Designer refactor 28 Jul 2013 | 07:45 am
Dear Community, As many of you have seen, for the past two months there has been a new interface for creating and maintaining farms in Scalr, which we call the Farm Designer. This is a revamp of the...
"Cloud Native": Data persistence with the Object Store and the Block Store 24 Jul 2013 | 12:47 am
This post is part of our series on how you become “Cloud-Native” through the use of Cloud services such as Images, Storage, and Networking. Instances are ephemeral, and so is their built-in storage. ...
Scalr 4.4.0 released! 20 Jul 2013 | 09:09 am
Dear community, Today we’re glad to announce our greatest Scalr release of yet, 4.4.0, is now available on github under the open source Apache 2 license. I’d like to take a moment here to thank some...
The Static Website Hosting Showdown: S3 vs GCS vs Cloud Files 17 Jul 2013 | 02:31 am
At Scalr, we host our website, www.scalr.com without servers. We do this using Amazon S3 to store static HTML files that make up our web presence, and Amazon CloudFront to deliver them speedily. This ...
"Cloud-Native": The Image Store 13 Jul 2013 | 01:43 am
This post is part of our series on how you become “Cloud-Native” through the use of Cloud services such as Images, Storage, and Networking. How useful is it to launch an instance if it does nothing? ...
"Cloud-Native": If you think Cloud is just about Elasticity, you're doing it wrong 13 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
We’ve all done it: Compared the prices of Amazon / Google Cloud Platform / Rackspace to those of a dedicated or VPS hosting provider. The conclusion is always the same: the price / performance ratio,...
Was it really 80%? A deeper look into AWS's latest price drop 11 Jul 2013 | 04:28 am
Amazon announced today that it was “lowering the price the price of dedicated instances by up to 80%”. But was it really 80%? We think there has been a misunderstanding in the coverage of this announ...
PaaS or IaaS? The difference in practice 10 Jul 2013 | 07:30 am
There are some great blog posts around the Internet to explain that PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) fundamentally differentiate around the pieces of the stack that ...
The state of Open Source Cloud Computing (Q2 2013) 5 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
Qingye Jiang, an Eucalyptus employee, just published his quarterly report on the state of the four major Open Source Cloud Platforms: OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula. Since we’ve co...
