Data center consolidation, virtualization, PUE, green everything, and infrastructure flexibility. All current IT conversation topics, all are important management considerations for organizations stepping into the age of complete business integration with information and communications technologies (ICT). Cool and challenging topics. But “cool” does not carry your business goals. A solid ICT strategy encompassing all your [...]
In the 1990s community of interest networks (COINs) emerged to take advantage of rapidly developing Internet protocol technologies. Cloud computing supports the idea of a COIN, as companies can not only build their “virtual data center” within a Platform as a Service/PaaS model, but also develop secure virtual interconnections among companies within a business community – not only within the same cloud service provider (CSP), but also among cloud service providers.
How often have we considered the challenges of meeting service level expectations to a global marketplace, in a global economy, with a very demanding customer? Every day?
Disaster recovery and business continuity. Recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. Backing up data to offsite locations, and potentially running mirrored processing sites – it is an expensive business requirement to fulfill. Particularly for budget conscious small and medium-sized companies.
Future applications and services within clouds will require a much broader use of Internet-enabled resources. Whether it is automatically spooling additional servers, adding disk, or more complex functions such as global distributed processing, load-balancing, disaster recovery, and follow-the-sun dynamic resource allocations – IPv6 implementation is required to meet that demand.
About a month ago we were contacted by the technical team at 3Tera asking if we would like to be involved in an historic demonstration – the first use of IPv6 in cloud computing. Since we’ve been experimenting with IPv6 in our data center over the past year, we jumped at the chance to be [...]
The ScaleUp Team has finished a first version of a ScaleUp Confluence Wiki Application. If you are interested in using Confluence in a dedicated hosting environment with guaranteed ressources, our Application is right for you. If you are interested in trying this Application, please contact us at hello@scaleup.it. Confluence requires a license. However you can [...]
As you probably read earlier, we will soon start to build a Ruby on Rails Application to host your Rails apps on ScaleUp. This Application will primarily focus on scalability, as all other ScaleUp Applications do as well. Therefore we will divide the Application into at least one loadbalancer, one webserver and one database server. [...]
Beta Users can now provision new Multi-Tier Applications. The following applications can be provisioned in our DMC: LAMP Application The ScaleUp LAMP Application consists of an inbound firewall gateway, a webserver (Apache and PHP5) and a MySQL database server. Please see the following diagram. WordPress Application ScaleUp WordPress Application consists of the same servers as [...]
With Multi-Tier applications ScaleUp makes it possible for users to deploy their project (website, portal, shop) on a scalable server infrastructure. Each component, such as the webserver or database server, is running as its own virtual machine. This way a virtual server infrastructure on ScaleUp can be scaled beyond the capacity of a single hardware [...]
