Edward M. Goldberg

Today, AWS Amazon RDS (Relational Database Servers in the AWS Cloud) are a new Beta and needs to be used as a “peek at that the future” for the IT staff and CTO.  Developers need to wrap their minds around Relational Database as a service.  The time has come for this to be a real... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer This time AWS has does it right. The Relational Database Servers in AWS called “RDS” are the “Real Thing”. I just transferred over my whole Drupal DB in a few moments to an RDS Instance. Is was very simple. Let me show you the one line command solution... (more)

Cloud Computing and Rails are a natural good fit.  With tools provided by New Relic integrated into the RightScale Deployment and Monitoring platform you have a Best Practice Monitoring system. I Deploy and Watch servers all day as part of the http://myCloudWatcher.com service. ... (more)

To make files work properly with CloudFront you need to set the Meta-Data and permissions on each file in the source  bucket with great care.  I use CloudBerry to upload and check all of the files in my Buckets on S3. This new tools makes keeping your file all correct with just a ... (more)

After many years of working on Cloud Computing Projects. I have finally started my own project. The Cloud Watcher project provides Managed Hosting for Cloud Deployment Projects. So many of my clients have ask me to stick around and watch the servers for them after I finished the... (more)

SPLUNK> just added Partner templates and Scripts (RightScrips) to the http://RightScale.com service. This is a great pair to have on your team.  These two players add depth of monitoring to your Deployments.  RightScale takes the low level server meterics very nicely and SPLUNK>... (more)

The way to prove that you meet the SLA requirements is: By setting up several external servers that watch your servers. When I set up a deployment in the Cloud I also set up several ways to check and see if the service works well.  The more ways I can find to check and check the ... (more)

I will demonstrate how much more efficient and easier it is to perform maintenance tasks in the cloud. And prove that you stay in control through the entire process. You will see live demonstrations of two use cases: How to respond to a server failure and how to deploy a major s... (more)

Breaking News, RightScale’s very own MICHAEL CRANDELL, CEO Will be at: The rise and meaning of Cloud Computing Talking about: Technologies & Cloud Computing Obstacles to roll-out and the innovations that will overcome them Despite all the promises that Cloud computing can bring, ... (more)

When you get a new car you look into the glove box and find a small book that explains the day to day operation of the car.  The same is true for your laptop. What happened to the users guide for the AWS EC2 Servers? First of all AWS calls them instances and gives them strange na... (more)

The idea of reverse charges on a phone call are not new.  But “please reverse the charges” for a download? This a great new idea.  Now you can make files that users down load from the internet at the cost of the user.  It is also possible to set a fee for the download. All of t... (more)

Cloud Computing and SVN Checkout in the form of an “export” is a very good match. Let me start with an outline of the basic ideas.  You need to store all of the code and content for your server or servers in a safe place.  This is NOT on the server.  If the server dies or is att... (more)

This is a shameless plug for the talk I am doing Dec 18th with RightScale. We will be talking about Master Slave Fail Over and general issues of how to maintain a code base on a collection of servers in the Cloud. Link to sign up: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/260903688 Lin... (more)

RightScale gets a cash infusion of $13M This is great news for the Cloud Computing Community.  The team at RightScale has added many tools to Open Source.  The right_aws Ruby tools are just one example of the contribution RightScale makes to the community. I look forward to this ... (more)

What is a CDN and what is it good for? Before this week CDN may not have been part of your vocabulary.  Now that AWS CloudFront is launched the buzz around the forums is all about CDN and the good and bad (lack of) features in CloudFront. Basics;  A CDN has two basic parts, The ... (more)

I have been thinking a lot about Content Delivery Network (CDN) ideas for a while now. AWS just has added CDN service the EC2-S3 Cloud Ecosystem under the name CloudFront…. So what is the connection with Clouds? The idea of a CDN is more than just providing some of the content ... (more)