cloud

Cloud storage systems

I am currently using the Rackspace Cloud for cloud storage of files (pictures, videos, documents etc). I use the PHP API to access the Cloud (rather than through a public URL as I need the files to be private) but the latency on it is pretty bad. It takes about 4.5 seconds to connect. Can anyone recommend a better and faster option? ...

CakePHP and AmazonS3.. getting the included files (JS, CSS, etc) to load from Amazon S3?

I want to make it so that all of my css and JS files are loaded from Amazon s3 since this would make things faster for the end user and save on bandwidth costs since s3 is cheaper than my cloud provider for bandwidth... I am wondering if in my .ctp if I just change this to the full s3 path if cake will have the end user DL it from that u...

Is there an unbiased list of Virtual Windows hosts out there somewhere? I get too much advertising with google

Is there a website that tracks the trends of the VPS space? I'm essentially looking for a consumer reports of VPS servers.. ...

Undergraduate project on Cloud Computing

Can any one please suggest me some possible under graduate project ideas on Cloud Computing? It would be better if its on some Microsoft technology. My previous college teacher has asked for my help to suggest some good projects. Let me be honest, I have no idea about Cloud computing, and I am in total darkness. Please help me out guys....

Package dependencies separately over Cloud

Hi all, I am working on a project that sets up packages on the cloud. For example, If i want to setup Drupal, i need seperate machines to maintain separate tasks, like mysql in one machine(cloud instance/node 1), apache server in another machine(cloud instance/node 2), etc. So if drupal.rpm has dependencies apache.rpm(has deps too) an...

Cloud computing and its use

What is cloud computing? What can I make with it? ...

Use of cloud computing in web development

Hi, Could anyone please tell me what the web developers can do with cloud computing, sorry for the very basic question i got confused so much by googling. Please tell me how to use or where to use this technology in PHP web development field. I used AMAZON'S ec2 but there i just followed their manual and it was very simple file storage....

Using Cloud/Distrubted computing to share processor time - possibilities and methods

My question is one I have pondered around when working on a demanding network application that would explicitly share a task across the network using a server to assign the job to each computer individually and "share the load". I wondered: could this be done in a more implicit manner? Question Is there a possibility of distributing p...

Any inputs Career opportunities in Cloud computing service provider companies...

Hey Guys, I'm a developer having around 6 years of experience in developing enterprise applications (web based/thick-client) using JEE technologies. Also I have hands-on experience developing web services host and client apps. I have an high-level idea about Cloud computing.I have some questions like below: 1.As a developer,how can i ...

What are my options for photo/video/audio encoding and storage APIs?

Hi chaps Users of my web application will upload video and audio clips and photographs. The media needs to be private within the web application, which I imagine rules out using YouTube for encoding and storage. I don't want to be responsible for storing the data on my servers, so some kind of pay-by-the-gb API seems appropriate. Amazon...

How to automatically send print job from "Cloud" server to printer?

A picture is supposed to be worth a 1000 words, so let's see if that can shorten this post up a bit... Essentially, I'm looking into "how" to code a solution that runs on the web server within the cloud that will send a print command to a printer within office 1 (label printer). The print job is really part of work flow within the AS...

How to create a hello world cloud computing application in c/c++

Anyone knows of such a simpliest hello world app ? ...

services for couch db

I am looking for a free service that gives you couchdb or another db, so i can use it from simple web apps. I would expect there to be some restrictions because its free. ...

What are some big sites that are using Amazon EC2

I'm looking for examples of large websites that are hosted on Amazon EC2/S3/Cloudfront/etc. I worked at a company where we ran a site that did 500k unique visitors per month on EC2 running 10 instances but that's still relatively small potatoes compared to some larger sites. I know smug mug and foursquare are also hosted on EC2. What ot...

What's the difference between Azure AppFabric and Windows Server AppFabric

Seems like there are two products with similar names, but isn't what I expect. I thought that Azure AppFabric was the "cloud" version of Windows Server AppFabric, but there doesn't seem to be much in common between them. Am I missing the bigger picture? ...

How to stress test a web portal using Selenium and any other open source -Cloud Test?

There is a website portal ,say W1 .Let's say the no. of users accessing are 3000.Can you please give me the detailed framework/design of how this portal can be stress tested remotely in a cloud setup using Selenium RC and/or any other open source.I am not getting any solution. Please help. ...

Why and when do I need Azure?

I read plenty of articles about Azure and .NET Service Bus. I think I understand technical part but at the moment I'm missing the main point - some "cases studies" which should explain me what kind of projects should be moved to cloud. Suppose that I'm starting new project. How can I decide if my project fits to Azure platform? What ar...

Real-life grid/distributed-computing application source codes etc..?

Hi, I started-off by making a chess AI engine (simple min-max), and ended-up trying to develop something like BOINC, but MUCH more lighter/re-distributable and most importantly decentralized. I was searching for sample applications to run on it and test it, but all I could find was some "impossible to understand" pi value calculators and...

What topic is more perspective in terms of market - Cloud computing or Video restoration?

I am choosing topic for a paper to work on during this year at university, I wonder which one is more wanted by market \ job providers here are ones I have some knowledge on: cloud \ farm computing ( meaning task management, process control, creation of environment, messaging between parts of system etc) and 2d video to 3d reconstruc...

Any opensource project related to Cloud/SOAstarting up?

I get some spare time [2/3 hrs daily and weekend ofcourse] which i want to invest on working on some opensource project particularly related to SOA , cloud techs ,,Any suggestions ?? ...