It’s important to understand the potential differences between virtual server disk drives and physical disk drives, so I wanted to post a very brief blog on the topic. For this article I’ve chosen to compare the performance of an iSCSI … Continue reading
There are many sources that feed my insatiable need for cloud computing and infrastructure news. One of these that I have been following for a while I wanted to share with my readers. It’s the Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter from the … Continue reading
It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science. There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up. Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of … Continue reading
What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases? There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything. Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop … Continue reading