[Update: 19 June 2009] Reports are coming out that Oracle is terminating Virtual Iron as a product, which changes things somewhat. How this affects the potential changes to the virtualisation market (especially for large enterprises) time will tell.
So here we are half way through 2009, virtualisation (virtualization) and cloud computing are hot, there are new [...]

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In this post we shall briefly discuss the PCI compliance regulations and how they affect people looking to use cloud computing services. The PCI DSS is a standard that affects most businesses in one way or another and as such is important when considering cloud computing solutions. If your business deals with credit [...]

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This morning I received the email from Amazon saying that they are now providing EC2 instances in Europe. It had been on the radar due to the Twitter Cloud Community talking about it pretty quick.
As with the other Amazon AWS services available in European data centres, the pricing is slightly higher than if you are [...]

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Amazon have announced/released CloudFront, which provides a content delivery network for data stored on S3. With “edge locations” in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt and London here in Europe it means that if you are serving files to “The City” you should be able to provide files as fast here as you can to the USA or [...]

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