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DAM Hosting: On The Cloud Or Your Server?

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:15:49 +0000

CMSWire.com features an article by Edward Smith from Extensis with the title: “Does Digital Asset Management Belong On Your Server or in the Cloud?” Despite the disclaimer about his background (Extensis being renowned as ‘on premise’ rather than a Cloud vendor), Edward presents a fairly even handed summary of the pros and cons. He covers [...]

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Amazon Outage: Implications For Cloud DAM?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:10:16 +0000

As most readers will be aware, last week Amazon’s AWS Cloud service had a major outage that affected a number of popular websites and services. There has been no shortage of comment from the mainstream media, websites and blogs. A number of DAM vendors (both pure play Cloud offerings and those with SaaS options) depend [...]

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Bursting The “Cloudbursting” Bubble

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:44:20 +0000

Chris Hoff, writing on his Rational Survivability Blog discusses his contempt for ”Cloudbursting”, this is a corruption of the term ‘bursting’ and refers to a technique where enterprises can increase capacity rapidly for a short period of time by temporarily expanding out into a public Cloud infrastructure: “Either you build a private cloud that gives [...]

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Risks Of Outsourcing Digital Asset Storage To Cloud Providers

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:12:25 +0000

The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has published an article about the risks of outsourcing data storage to external providers who hold records in the cloud. NAA have indicated that most of the risks can be mitigated if recognised: Regulatory requirements may be broken The storage location may create legal consequences Access to, or use [...]

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Managing Risk With Cloud Hosted DAM

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:03:09 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream have published a blog post that discusses the risks of Cloud hosting. They make reference to Wikileaks and the financial crisis as good examples of why you should avoid placing too much trust in Cloud hosting as your exclusive method of delivery: “I do believe the Cloud is [...]

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Amazon S3 Increases Individual Asset Size Limit To 5TB

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:25:21 +0000

In a further significant move for the use of Cloud based storage for Digital Asset Management, Amazon have announced on their web services blog that their S3 service will now handle objects (files or digital assets) up to 5TB in size. This makes S3 a serious proposition for storage of large assets that might hitherto [...]

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Cloud Licensing Models

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:57:37 +0000

Jinesh Varia writing on the Amazon AWS blog does a good job of summarising the three main types of Cloud licences that are prevalent for applications and services: Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Model Utility Pricing Model with a Support Package ISV SaaS-based Cloud Service Also included is some advice for incrementally migrating to Cloud [...]

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Improving Cloud Storage Performance

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:53:03 +0000

Many organisations are considering moving their storage facilities to the Cloud to take advantage of the enhanced scalability opportunities. However, the problem is that the connectivity available to most companies is inadequate for this to be a usable alternative when compared with the performance of local storage that users are already accustomed to. George Crump [...]

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Amazon Cloud Tech Summit: London (UK) Tuesday 9th November

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:22:00 +0000

Amazon are holding a tech summit for developers and system architects at the Thistle Hotel in Marble Arch, London, UK, on 9th November 2010. The speakers include Andy Nichol of Telegraph Media Group, Jodi Moran from Playfish, Craig Box from Symbian Foundation and Michael Brunton-Spall, Developer Advocate from guardian.co.uk. The event plans to cover some [...]

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Cloud Computing And Geo Apps

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:13:56 +0000

In a recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog post, Jinesh Varia discusses the role of the Cloud and how it is well suited to supporting the needs of “Geo Apps” – systems that leverage geographical data (often publicly available) and social media concepts to derive a new generation of Cloud Based GIS (Geographic Information Systems). [...]

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On Cloud Mine: Are Private Clouds Worth It?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:00:44 +0000

In this article, Bhaskar Krishnamsetty presents the benefits of private cloud use and explains how private clouds can contribute to maximising the return on your IT investment. “The best way to assess the value of the cloud is in terms of the economic drivers and long term benefits. Implementing a private cloud allows organizations to have a dynamic [...]

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RackSpace Challenges Cloud Vendor Lock-In With OpenStack

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:15:26 +0000

RackSpace’s recent announcement of the release of “OpenStack” – their open source Cloud service stack could present a credible challenge to more established Cloud vendors (such as Amazon) according to some commentators. A key issue with current Cloud services is vendor lock-in. At present, while a number of enterprises have begun experimenting with using cloud [...]

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Cloud Performance Review

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:27:30 +0000

Alistair Croll of Bitcurrent, writing on the O’Reilly Radar blog introduces some performance tests they have carried out on a number of well-known Cloud providers, including: Amazon EC2/EBS Google App Engine Rackspace Cloud SalesForce Force.com Terremark vCloud “We (Bitcurrent) decided to find out. With the help of Webmetrics, we built four test applications: a small [...]

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Amazon S3 Now Supports Versioning

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:00:46 +0000

Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced support for version control for assets which will allow users of their S3 Cloud based storage facility to retrieve overwritten or deleted files. Versioning provides an additional layer of protection for your S3 objects. You can easily recover from unintended user errors or application failures. You can [...]

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Hybrid Clouds: No Easy Concoction

Sarah Thompson — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:24:50 +0000

Every data center provisions its workloads for a worst-case scenario. IT managers put an application on a server with extra memory, CPU, and storage to make sure the application can meet its heaviest workload of the month, quarter, or year and grow with the business. This approach is so deeply ingrained in IT that, prior [...]

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