In most areas of life, but particularly in business, we love comparing our good (and not-so-good) deeds with those of our peers. This benchmarking enables us to ensure our performance meets industry standards while identifying areas for growth. For those … Continue Reading >
Imagine your AWS EC2 reservations are about to expire. Wouldn’t it be great to be reminded so you can keep your cloud deployment running smoothly and cost-effectively? We thought so too and armed with some insightful customer feedback, we recently … Continue Reading >
A few weeks back we hosted a Silicon Vally Cloud Computing Meetup with Scalr and Quixey. A the event, Nate Lindstrom, Director of Network Operations at Salesforce spoke about best practices for managing cloud deployment such as cloud performance and … Continue Reading >
At the start of 2013 we wanted to get a clear picture of our customer base. So we analyzed the profile of 260 Cloudyn customers and the resulting data produced a great map of the AWS users base – including … Continue Reading >
Last month while testing our new S3 Tracker tool, we ran a data collection for our own production account. We received quite a shock when we saw that it reported close to half-a-terabyte of S3 “Shadow Versions”. While we had … Continue Reading >
Last Friday as I was wrapping things up, my inbox beeped with an email. One of our customers had just received their Cloudyn cost-to-date alert, informing them of their total AWS spend up until that point in the month. They … Continue Reading >
We are just wrapping up the first full week of 2013, and Amazon is already at the center of a stormy cloud debate. Financial analysts are predicting a huge year for AWS as they move into the enterprise space. However, … Continue Reading >
I was recently talking to a Cloudyn customer about best practices for reducing AWS spend. While expecting that our Reserved Instance Calculator – which recommends optimal deployment plans – would top his list of penny-pinching tools, his actual choice was … Continue Reading >
It’s official. Cloudyn and Scalr have integrated and joint customers are now able to monitor their cloud cost and consumption from within their Scalr console. The new functionality has already received some rave reviews. Drum-roll please. “As a customer of … Continue Reading >
David Feinleib of The Big Data Group just published a report on best practices for achieving cloud cost efficiencies. Dave will be discussing the ramification of his study during an interactive webcast this Thursday, December 13 at 1PM ET. Register … Continue Reading >
