Cloud Slam 09': The Pareto Illusion

A few weeks ago we presented in Cloud Slam 09' cloud services cost analysis, and how it can be minimized using performance boosting. We also discussed in this presentation databases in the cloud and Sharding based on participants questions.
Feel free to take a look at the recorded presentation as well as the abstract, which are available at Cloud Slam site as well.

The Pareto Illusion - Why we end up paying too much for cloud services and what can we do about it? Moshe Kaplan and Ayal Baron

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Presentation Abstract:
Cloud computing is a whole new game: we are no longer talking about equity and CapEx, but regarding OpEx.

So why are you still paying so much every month for your cloud services? How can it be reduced? What are the industry state of art methodologies to gain more out of your cloud service provider? How to do more with same, and how to gain a better ROI for your project? and last but not least, how to help saving our world.

In this presentation we'll discuss how can you make your software more efficient, and how to focus on core components of the system and achieving 80% boost in 20% effort.

Keep Performing,
Moshe Kaplan. RockeTier. The Cloud and Performance Experts

Very large databases on the cloud: The Presentation

This time I include the presentation that I presented on Monday: "How your very large databases can work in the cloud computing world?". It was a great presentation and the place was loaded with industry experts from various companies such as Amdocs, Panaya, SAP, Superfish and SUN.

The presentation content can be found bellow as well as the slide show:

How your very large databases can work in the cloud computing world?

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Cloud computing is famous for its flexibility, dynamic nature and ability to infinite growth. However, infinite growth means very large databases with billions of records in it. This leads us to a paradox: "How can weak servers support very large databases which usually require several CPUs and dedicated hardware?"
The Internet industry proved it can be done. These days many of the Internet giants, processing billions of events every day, are based on cloud computing architecture such and sharding. What is Sharding? What kinds of Sharding can you implement? What are the best practices?

Keep Performing,
Moshe Kaplan. RockeTier. The Performance and Cloud Experts.