posted 03/29/2012 by Nicolas, comments: 0 comments
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
posted 03/15/2012 by chris, comments: 1 comments
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
posted 03/02/2012 by Nicolas, comments: 2 comments
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
posted 02/12/2012 by chris, comments: 0 comments
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
posted 12/09/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 1 comments
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
posted 11/26/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
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
posted 11/17/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
So you have a witty set of 140 characters with a shortened URL linked to some brilliant content. What’s next? Well, you’re in your favorite app or web site and you tweet it of course. What are the chances that the tweet will go through? How long will it take? We collected data from real
posted 10/11/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at InterOp Enterprise Cloud Summit in New York City. Hats off to Alistair Croll from Bitcurrent for putting together a thought-provoking session of workshops in which we presented Comparing Public Clouds: The State of On-Demand Performance. With 28 million measurements (across 34,000 networks ad 185 countries) in