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Performance and the Cloud

Pete Prestipino — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:30:00 GMT

Who provides the fastest cloud service? According to CloudSlueth (a Compuware community), the honors go to Microsoft's Azure platform.

CloudSleuth uses the Gomex performance network to determine the reliability and consistency of popular public IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) providers. CloudSleuth runs an identical sample ecommerce application on the popular cloud service providers and measures the results over at least six months of historical data.

Microsoft's Azure platform beat out Google App Engine, GoGrid, OpSource, RackSpace, Amazon, TekLinks, BitRefinery, CloudSigma and several others.

The report, available here, shows a significant difference between Azure servers running near Chicago and those running in Singapore.

WM Morning Wire: 10-13-08

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:38:00 GMT

Welcome to October 13th, 2008! Below are a few press release that caught our attention this morning that you might find interesting. We'll be covering some of these releases throughout the day. If you have a news announcement you would like to share with the Website Magazine community, please contact Website Magazine editors now.

Squarespace Transforms Website Publishing With Isilon IQ
Isilon(R) Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced that Squarespace, a leading provider of website publishing and online content management software, has deployed Isilon IQ as the central repository for its entire collection of user-generated content including images, html code, and other file-based data.

Gizmox Announces Release of Visual WebGui 6.2
Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform, today announced the release of Visual WebGui 6.2. The upgrade will introduce a complete integration into the Visual Studio designer, allowing Visual WebGui Projects to be configured without any need for manual configuration.

Myxer Launches $5 Million Campaign to Drive Mobile Web Adoption
Myxer, the leader in ad-supported mobile content, today launched their $5 Million Giveaway Campaign, offering $5,000 worth of free online advertising to 1,000 independent cell phone stores -- totaling $5 million over the next 12 months. This is the first in a series of programs Myxer will launch to support wireless carriers and cell phone retailers to help boost data plan sales, which are becoming an increasingly important component of mobile industry revenue.

SumoBrain: Big, Powerful, Smart Patent Searching for Power Users
SumoBrain, launched summer of 2008, offers an alternative to patent search pay services. As a complement to the hugely popular FreePatentsOnline (http://www.freepatentsonline.com), SumoBrain provides higher account limits and bulk PDF capabilities. Its architecture is designed for future deployment of high-end features targeting intellectual property professionals, attorneys, and corporate users.

Viewzi Visual Search Engine Releases New Power Grid Search View And Other New Features
Viewzi Inc. this week launched the largest major feature upgrade to the visual search engine since the company launched the site to the general public. This new release includes a new search view and several feature and performance upgrades.

WebWorks ePublisher Enables Automated Population of Wikis
WebWorks.com, a brand of Quadralay Corporation, the leading developer of publishing platform solutions for single-source delivery of online content, today announced the FALL 2008 release of its industry-leading ePublisher platform.

Cloud Server Hosting Provider, GoGrid, States Windows is its Preferred Cloud Operating System Compared to Linux
With 8 Months of Cloud Server Delivery Data, Windows Is Selected More Often in the GoGrid "Control in the Cloud™" cloud computing platform. Windows Server 2003 and more recently, Windows Server 2008 are favored on GoGrid's Cloud Infrastructure.

OpenOffice.org Community Announces Third Major Release of Its Free, Easy-to-Use Office Software
Celebrated at a launch party in Paris today, and just in time for the eighth birthday of the project, the OpenOffice.org Community today announced the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0. The third major update of the leading productivity suite delivers significant enhancements and advanced, extensible, productivity tools for all users, including Mac users, as OpenOffice.org now runs natively on the Mac OS X platform.

Go Grid: Windows To the Cloud

Administrator — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:50:00 GMT

GoGrid, a provider of Windows and Linux cloud-based server hosting announced the availability of 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008 within its Cloud Computing infrastructure - one of the first infrastructure as a service providers to offer Windows Server 2008 "in the cloud". GoGrid customers can now deploy Windows Server 2008 servers in just a few minutes for as little as 19 cents an hour, with no commitment.

"The ability to deploy and manage critical infrastructure systems in the Cloud is becoming increasingly important to customers," said Jason Hermitage, director of Windows Server marketing at Microsoft Corp. "We're excited that with Windows Server 2008 offered on GoGrid, customers will be able to run our most powerful enterprise server software in the Cloud and take advantage of the increased security, reliability and ease of management that Windows Server 2008 can bring."