UPDATED: So after doing some additional reading at the suggestion of @drnic, I read what @tmornini said about the changes occurring. What is the stated view of events? EngineYard is growing up. I can believe this as a plausible explanation, I state this because I have personally gone through this type of change at several of the startups […]
Month: October 2010
Public Cloud Hourly Cost Comparison
After receiving feedback from several readers and the desire to see the results, I have updated and reformatted my previous Cloud Cost Comparison. I have included comparisons between Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Servers, and Joyent SmartMachines in this spreadsheet. This spreadsheet includes normalized data across CPU, Memory, Disk Storage, Disk Throughput, and […]
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon EC2 – Instance Comparison
I decided to do this based on today’s PDC 2010 announcement of the Microsoft Extra Small Instance. I wanted to compare and contrast Amazon’s EC2 Instances with Microsoft Azure’s Instances. I came across what I believe to be an error on Microsoft’s website (both Medium and Large Instances currently show as $0.48/CPU hour. Below […]
Great Rails Rumble Projects
I decided to look at the Rails Rumble projects today and have found several that look very promising. Some could be applied to the cloud and some just solve some interesting problems. Below are some of my top picks: Top Pick: GitWrite – A Blogging Platform backed using Git, Rails, and Twitter! Monitoring: StillAlive– Focuses […]
More on VMware’s Ruby Plans
Update: I got a response on twitter from Ezra Zygmuntowicz see below. Original Post Begins Here: Following yesterday’s post looking into Ruby’s creator Yukihiro Matsumoto’s visit to VMware’s Headquarters, I have gotten new information. VMware has hired former EngineYard Co-Founder & Software Architect and Ruby Developer Ezra Zygmuntowicz to work on Ruby for VMware (Some […]
VMware looking to Ruby?
I have been following many different trends in Cloud as of late, including: Virtualization (VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer, RedHat KVM, and Microsoft Hyper-V) Programming & Scripting Languages (Ruby, Java, Groovy, Powershell, Scala, Erlang, Akka, Clojure) to name a few DevOps Cloud Services (They are too numerous to mention in this post, but I will create […]
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