« Which Cloud and/or CDN shall I chose for better delivery of my content and applications in a specific country? » It’s a question all IT decision-makers ask themselves. To start answering it, Cedexis proposes a new data visualization interface available on our website. Every day Cedexis publishes new country-by-country reports on the performance of IT providers (Hosting Companies,
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Today we’re pleased to announce a partnership with New Relic. Rich application performance data from New Relic is now available to help make traffic routing decisions through Openmix. Additionally, New Relic Standard is now free to any Cedexis customer so find out more about the integration and sign up today. This integration opens up the possibility
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EuroCloud France has just announced the winners of the 6th « Trophées du Cloud » (Cloud Awards) ceremony taking place during the « États Généraux du Cloud » (Cloud Forum), gathering this year more than 400 people in the premises of the “Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris” (Trade & Industry Commission of Paris) on March 21st, 2012. This new
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Last week, Windows Azure cloud struggled. Today, several availability zones in Amazon AWS US-East region went down i (US-EAST-1). Here is Cedexis Radar detected in real time… [First edition of this article : 09:50 UTC] As of Thu Mar 15 09:46:21 UTC 2012, Cedexis Radar has detected what appears to be an outage at 3
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A few months ago, Amazon’s cloud went through repeated areas of turbulence (on April 21st and August 7th) causing outages for many online services. Another event involving maintenance already generated a rant from customers and IT providers. In the IT news this week you probably saw the reports of an incident involving Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
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This year’s Cloud Connect crowd converged on Santa Clara to talk performance, our favorite topic, at the Cloud Performance Summit. For those who weren’t able to make it, attendees included Alistair Croll from BitCurrent, Adrian Cockroft from NetFlix, Lori Mac Vittie from F5 and a who’s who from the internet community at large. I took away
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Collecting a billion measurements a day from over 30,000 networks provides insight I wish I’d had when managing hosted security operations at my previous job. We had over 2,500 physical and virtual instances across 3 main data centers. Each data center was, of course, multi-homed and we bought transit and peering from a redundant set
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Our Director of Business Development Northern Europe, Jason Turner, will represent Cedexis at Cloud Expo Europe, the exhibition dedicated to the Cloud to be held in London from January 25 to 26. You can schedule a meeting with him now : jason_at_cedexis.com
This week, Amazon announced that it would be starting a round of scheduled maintenance of EC2 instances which caused a stir in the Twittersphere. The maintenance window is 6 hours long. AWS customers were notified this week that EC2 instances would be rebooted next week. Speculation on the reasons and impact of the AWS reboot
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This week I had the opportunity to attend a face-off sponsored by the Seattle Web Technology Meetup Group. Rather than a pitch from vendors, the face-off featured a company using each technology stack to educate the audience on the respective merits and gotchas of the stacks. I thought it would be interesting to examine the
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