Hi, We are having a .net application which we plan to move to the cloud. I hear a lot of people say if its .net app go for azure. Are there any other alternatives for it in terms of ease of porting and pricing Thanks Prady ...
I am writing a backup service to backup a SQL database and save it in cloud storage. I have actually implemented this already with Amazon S3 but as the application will be distributed to customers, I cannot have the API keys stored with the application. I considered using a web service to provide the keys, but it's not my best option at ...
I need to send regular newsletters, as well as smaller batches, to a 10k strong mailing list, programmatically. We're currently exporting our list and then using Campaign Monitor's web interface to create and send the newsletters. Campaign Monitor is great, but it is simply too expensive. Sending just one email to the entire list costs ...
Anyone know of any good server side voice recognition engines that are already hosted? I.e. I want to be able to call a simple web API posting some sound data and get text back. Doesn't have to be free - but hopefully free to experiment with. ...
Looks like the only way to resize an Amazon EBS volume is to take snapshot, dismount, create a larger volume from the snapshot, mount the latter. Now my program is running on a Windows EC2 instance and sees that it's out of disk space. How can the program resize the EBS volume the root partition resides on? ...
I'm final year student of BE (Comp & Info Sys). My group FYP is Online Payroll System & we want to deliver project "Online Payroll as a Service" (Software as a Service). Kindly guide how to expose services. Regards, Nasir Iqbal ...
While deploying my application built on ASP pages over Amazon EC2 Cloud instance. Iam getting " 500 - Internal server error " for all my ASP pages hosted. Any idea on what would be the settings need to be done to overcome this error. my EC2 instance uses IIS7. my page is using XMLDOC object to extract the connection string from an we...
Customers able to upload urls in any time to database and application should processes urls as soon as possible. So i need periodic hadoop jobs running or run hadoop job automatically from other application(any script identifies new links were added, generates data for hadoop job and runs job). For PHP or Python script, i could set up cr...
Amazon S3 provides an "eventual consistency" model, where data you store is eventually visible to all clients. I can't find any official information as to whether write ordering is guaranteed or not. This is fundamentally important if you are building an architecture where a client might want to read data right after someone else stored...
I'm about ready to launch our company's web site on Amazon's EC2, and have a fairly simple architectural question: Should I use an array of Small instances for the web / application layer, or an array of Large instances? This is a fairly broad question, I realize. So to add some clarifying details: Our application is a public-facing...
Is there any Java or .Net implementation (API) available for Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption or for Attribute-Based Encryption ...
Possible Duplicate: What is cloud computing? After watching this, I realized that not many people really know what cloud computing actually is (including me), and many people have different ideas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNuQHUiV3Q I thought I understood cloud computing as applications like online google "apps" (gmai...
I'm after a method of converting a single program to run on multiple computers on a network (think "grid computing"). I'm using MSVC 2007 and C++ (non-.NET). The program I've written is ideally suited for parallel programming (its doing analysis of scientific data), so the more computers the better. ...
Hello. I'd like to prepare a development environment on the cloud. My target platform is Microsoft .Net Based on theory and some basic experiments, I am tilting in favour of Amazon AWS infrastructure. If I purchase a High-Memory On-Demand Instance, I'll be able to deploy 8-20 instances of developer VMs within and also deploy VMs for dat...
Hi there I d like to enquire how best to go about upgrading or modifying an existing asp.net mvc project to work with Windows azure. Thanks ...
I have a WCF service sitting in the cloud. And my application makes several calls to this WCF service. Is it a best practise: 1] to always use return value as bool which indicates if the operation was sucessful or not. 2] returning the values you meant to return as the OUT parameters ...
So Id love to see an algorithm for generating 3d cloud objects. as realistic as possible. I know that there are different cloud types But I am moust interested in such cloud tupes like so can any one point to algorithm or just a C\C++\C#\AS3 or any other language lib that can do such thing? ...
I'm looking for examples of successful cloud computing migrations with any of these attributes: High traffic In depth explanation of what they did: Did the go with an internal cloud, IaaS, PaaS, or some hybrid approach? Did they have to rewrite any code? Did they have to migrate data structures? How successful was the migration in te...
Does hosting overseas affect seo, and where does this leave cloud computing? ...
We have a custom software project that's database driven (MySQL) and is built with php and some public and custom libraries. It's currently being hosted on a VPS, and being the intern, I've been assigned the task of researching how we can transition it so it can be hosted in a cloud. My research so far has led me to providers such as...