Cloud Computing Servers

Today’s customers aren’t necessarily down the street, or even in the same country. The current business landscape has flattened and savvy businesses with a global focus now have the ability to draw customers from all over the world. According to Internet Live Stats, there are 3.2 billion global internet users. In the past we’ve talked about […]

On-demand computing and the efficiencies that come from being able to scale your compute resources up and down as your workload changes are part of the reason why running in the cloud is so appealing. However, that flexibility can mean that you need to pay more attention to variability in costs. Today, the beta release […]

CDN systems became a really useful tool to improve website characteristics for a lot of online businesses all over the globe. Such systems use principle of technological proximity to satisfy requests better and better each day. Multiple servers are located in different geographic areas all over the world. Content distribution companies copy a popular content […]

Content delivery or distribution is the global process, which covers almost all areas of online business. Millions of users all over the globe get required content by CDNs (content delivery companies) every day. However, most of users even not aware of the existence of CDNs. Meanwhile, content distribution plays a huge role in data exchange […]

DDos attacks became a real problem for most of online businesses nowadays. This way of economic pressure is very popular, because it does not leave any legally relevant evidences. At the same time such attacks can make unavailable almost any computer or system. DDos attacks are based almost on the same principle as Dos attacks. […]

Earlier this year, we teamed up with VMware to offer enterprise grade Google Cloud Platform services to VMware customers through VMware vCloud Air. Today we are excited to announce that vCloud Air Object Storage Service, powered by Google Cloud Platform, is generally available to all customers. With the availability of Google Cloud Storage through vCloud Air, VMware customers will have […]

We’ve had a lot of great responses and feedback (keep ‘em coming!) about our cloud pricing posts (Local SSDs, Virtual Machines, Data Warehouses) and today we’re back to talk about running NoSQL databases in the cloud. Specifically, we want to give you the information you need to understand how to estimate the cost of running NoSQL workloads […]

If you’re running a successful podcast, your listener base may be massively growing…but the problem is, so is your bandwidth consumption. Web servers were never built to handle global delivery and traffic bursts for large web files—especially when a typical episode could range anywhere from 20-100MB.  Each download adds strain to your servers and causes delivery performance […]

Founded in 2012, Energyworx offers big data aggregation and analytics cloud-software services for the energy and utilities industry. Their products and services include grid optimization and reliability, meter-data management, consumer engagement, energy trading and environmental-impact reduction. They are based in the Netherlands. To learn more, visit www.energyworx.org Getting all cloudy gives you a tremendous amount: Agility, […]

Google Cloud Platform improves as a result of extensive collaboration–including collaboration with users. In particular, user research studies help us improve our cloud platform by allowing us to get feedback directly from cloud and IT administrators around the world. We’d like to invite you today to join our growing pool of critical contributors. Simply fill […]