‘Cloud’ posts

Expanding Horizons, Closing Borders

Posted by Kevin Carlson on 17 Feb 2011

In the 1990′s when use of the internet was expanding at incredible speed and trends were emerging that had business traditionalists uttering phrases like “clicks and mortar”, the retail game appeared to be forever changing in a few short years. … Continue reading →

US to Review Laws on Data Privacy and Security

Posted by Kevin Carlson on 20 Dec 2010

A recent report issued by the US Department of Commerce recommends that the US Government consider a new online privacy framework, driven largely by advances in cloud computing and the security challenges with that new technology.  The report suggests that … Continue reading →

Ecommerce Blogroll: The Weekly Report for June 17

Posted by Noreen Vincent on 17 Jun 2009

You know how bloggers have a blogroll on one of their sidebars, giving you a little insight into what bloggers deem to have a voice of authority?  Well, I have been keeping an eye on some of the blogs that my favorite bloggers recommend, and decided to share my thoughts on the posts from these | View post »

Magento Performance: On Amazon EC2 & S3

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 12 Jun 2009

We have been performance testing Magento in the Amazon EC2 cloud lately (Eric Shea, from Optaros has been spearheading this from our side and has lots more information on the subject). But just to share, here is what we found: The optimal cloud environment setup for our tests was: 1 Load balancer – HAProxy on | View post »

Media Cloud(s) On the Horizon

Posted by John Eckman on 11 Apr 2009

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud in early March, though it had been quietly available for a few months before that. It’s an exciting concept, limited in its current implementation but sure to grow in utility as more features get added. MediaCloud In essence, Media Cloud monitors a set of sources, [...]

Zwory [Cloud Based Online Video Platform]

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Sep 2008

Leveraging Amazon’s cloud-computing infrastructure and the power of the Django framework, Zwory is a technology proof of concept for an online video platform which includes video uploads, transcoding, and multiple delivery options.

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