Running a production application in the cloud can be great because it’s possible to add and remove servers from a cluster dynamically using a provisioning API. These automatic additions and removals can be triggered by system utilization levels that you measure, such as concurrent network connections, memory utilization, or CPU utilization. When you need more [...]

By: Adrian Otto Over the years I’ve administered email systems that provided service to thousands of end user’s mailboxes. In the early years in the 1990’s most woes of a mail system administrator were about how to instrument the setting up of email accounts and related client settings, and changing passwords when they were forgotten [...]

Definition of Cloud Platform: A system where software applications may be run in an environment composed of utility cloud services in a logically abstract environment. Definition of PaaS: Platform as a Service. A Cloud Platform offered by a service provider as a hosted service which facilitates the deployment of software applications without the cost and [...]