Cloud Computing

OpenStack–An open source Cloud Computing Stack to rival Amazon AWS & Azure platforms

Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure are the prominent players in Cloud Computing arena and virtually the competition to these providers is negligible as it’s a monstrous task to build Cloud Computing environments. In order to compete with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, a group of prominent companies formed a consortium to build open source Cloud …

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Windows Azure: Read settings from web.config instead of service configuration file if the app is running on non-cloud environment

Traditional asp.net web applications maintain their configuration settings in web.config files, where as Windows Azure based applications should have configurable entities into Service Configuration files. What if the application needs to run on Azure as well as traditional environments? Where do you store the configurable entities and how do you access them depending on the …

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Automatically Delete Amazon S3 Files By Setting Expiration Time

Amazon S3 is a cost effective cloud storage service that lets you easily build application for cloud. Today a new feature called Object Expiration is added to Amazon S3 to allow automatic deletion of expired objects. Consider a scenario where you want to build an application that stores log files on Amazon S3 storage service …

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Amazon ElastiCache Vs. Windows Azure AppFabric Cache

With cloud computing services, architecting a highly scalable and reliable applications is much easier than ever before. One of the main components of highly scalable architecture is Caching. A well cached application can boost performance by many folds depending on how effectively it is used. For an ASP.NET web application cloud architecture, one can choose …

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How Access Amazon Cloud Player On iPhone/iPad?

Amazon recently launched Cloud Drive, a free 5 GB online cloud service that lets you  save documents, music, videos, photos and other files. Music files stored in Cloud Drive can be access from any where using Amazon Cloud Player. According to Amazon, Cloud  Player is accessible through any computer browser with flash support and Android …

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Amazon Cloud Crashes. Takes Down Popular Sites Like Reddit, Quora, Foursquare And Few Thousand Sites

When the most popular cloud crashes the impact is felt across the internet with thousands of sites knocked down. That’s what happened today when Amazon Cloud computing service EC2 crashed. Amazon’s EC2 service located in USA cloud computing data centre is experiencing problems since today morning and popular sites like Reddit, Quora, Foursquare, thousands of …

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Amazon S3 Tips: Quickly Add/Modify HTTP Headers To All Files Recursively

Amazon S3 is an dead cheap cloud storage service that offers unlimited storage in pay as you use model. Recently we moved all the images and other static files(scripts & css) of Tech Dreams to Amazon S3 to reduce load on VPS server. Amazon S3 is cheap, but monthly bill will shoot up if images/static …

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