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Google Apps for Education: Top Choice for UC Berkeley
January 26, 2012UC Berkeley is a powerhouse university in the world of computer science: ranked 3rd in the world, it bought UNIX to the world and is alma mater to the likes of Gordon Moore, Steve Wozniak, and Eric Schmidt. UCB recently went through an evaluation of cloud e-mail technologies, leading to the recent announcement that Google Apps would be its new campus e-mail and calendaring system. Berkeley's FAQ states: As part of our budget reduction strategy and in line with an emerging trend in higher education, UC Berkeley is ...
Learn about Amazon’s new DynamoDB at A Cloudy Place
January 25, 2012Our Head of Cloud Services, Craig Box, has been selected as a contributor to a new cloud computing web site! Red Gate Software, who run the hugely successful sqlservercentral.com for Microsoft SQL Server users, have recently launched ACloudyPlace.com for cloud developers. Craig's first post explores the history of Amazon's NoSQL storage, looks at the new DynamoDB service, and talks about why it may or may not be the right technology for you. Check it out now.
Amazon ElastiCache now available worldwide
December 06, 2011In the words of SQL Server guru Brent Ozar, "the fastest query is the one you never run". Caching is a great strategy to optimise database performance - the most commonly used information can be kept "warm", generally in memory, in a cache. Since 2003, the standard for in-memory caching has been memcached, developed by Brad Fiztpatrick for LiveJournal. While there have been many other cache programs written since then, many use the memcached protocol, including many with persistence (such as memcachedb and Redis). In August, Amazon launched ElastiCache: this allows you to build clusters of nodes running ...
Mobile devices and Google Apps
December 05, 2011One of the most compelling reasons to move to a cloud e-mail provider like Google Apps is the fact that your e-mail can securely be made available to you and your mobile devices, wherever you are. Gone are the days of having to create a VPN connection back to the office before you would be able to connect to an e-mail server! While users love the fact they can access corporate e-mail on mobile devices — even those they provide themselves — corporate IT departments like to know what is connecting to their services, and to ensure that adequate security policies ...