Posts under ‘Cloud’

A Walk in the Clouds We have recently been invited by the EAE Business School to give a talk in a life webinar about cloud computing. With an audience of around 60 people from around the world,  the webinar, is forming part of a series of presentations focusing on the technologies and business models that [...]

At the end of April,  Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world leader in Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service, suffered a major outage affecting hundreds of websites that rely on AWS. When Amazon went down, it took with it  many companies who run their web services in  Amazon data centre in Northern Virginia in the [...]

We recently participated in The European Ground System Architecture Workshop (ESAW) 2011 that was held at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, on 10 and 11 May 2011. With  nearly 300 Ground Systems architects and experts from European and American Space Agencies, Telecommunication Operators, Satellite Primes, European Institutes and Universities, European Industry and companies from USA, Canada and [...]

The november issue of the Top500 Supercomputer sites has just been released and there is a new entry in at number #231. Rank Site Computer/Year Vendor Cores Rmax Rpeak 231 Amazon Web Services United States Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instances – Amazon EC2 Cluster, Xeon X5570 2.95 Ghz, 10G Ethernet / 2010 Self-made 7040 41.82 [...]

May 27th, 2010 by Alfonso Olias 2010 might be the turning point for Cloud Computing, especially in Spain. The current economical situation is pushing both SMEs and large corporations to take a closer look at their businesses in order to become more competitive – maximizing their investments and reducing their expenditures. The optimization of their [...]

Three full days of presentations with 07:30 starts and 19:00 finishes flew in surprisingly fast. Whether I was hearing about a new technology solution or a new business model based on private, public or hybrid clouds, it was all interesting. There are a lot of companies like The Server Labs, looking to grow with the [...]

With the latest addition of their first Asia-Pacific Region based in Singapore, Amazon Web Services connects global businesses with their customers and partners in Asia as well as providing the powerful compute services to Asian businesses. This exciting announcement is more proof that cloud computing is gaining traction worldwide and helping reduce the cost of [...]

The Server Labs has long been known for our technical prowess which has been clearly demonstrated with our customer successes and our excellent technical blog entries from our talented consultants. However, as IT continues to evolve and becomes a more prominent member of the corporate culture we realised that we need to also address IT [...]