Samuel Vijaykumar

Eucalyptus Session at Cloud Expo Cloud Computing Expo - Now we have a Eucalyptus’ Private Cloud installed and running on our premise, and it remained kinda of an artifact in our data-center for sometime. So I thought why has not someone written anything about how make to make Elasticfox work with Eucalyptus. But there were quite a few pointers to what version will be ideally suited to use for Eucalyptus, like this one, thanks Ajmf. I took the cue from there, I enabled debugging on elasticfox, and used firebug to dig deeper. And I came up with Hybridfox, yeah, and it works. What is Hybridfox? Hybridfox is an attempt to get the best of both world of popular Cloud Computing environments, Amazon EC2 (public) and Eucalytpus (private). The idea is to use one hybridfox tool, whi... (more)

Elastic IP: A Learning on Hybridfox

Eucalyptus Session at Cloud Expo Cloud Computing Expo - I know, I should not writing a blog post on a Friday. Forgive me people. I have blogged for about ten days now and it out guilt I do this. There was one pretty good learning, after I had installed installed Hybridfox. This is the one about allocation and association of ip addresses. And it kind of took by surprise. The other day I ... (more)

Cloud Central: Australian for Cloud

Cloud Central is a Public Cloud offering from Down Under. With public beta program to try out, its worth getting your hands wet with some realtime cloud exposure. And all the feedback from the users will help in building another successful cloud service. True to the Australian gutsy spirit; Cloud Central has made a bold move to jump in and publish their offering to the public, with a bet... (more)

Synaptic: New Kid of an Old Bloke

Synaptic Compute as a Service is from AT&T. So, now the noose is getting tighter around Amazon’s neck, and that means to keep itself on board it needs to get slimmer and sharper with pricing and modeling respectively. Whats Synaptic Compute as a Service? Helping information flow fast and flexibly – it’s what synapses do in our [...] ... (more)

Gmail’ing in Python

There must be tons of these laying around. Add one more to it. This is just so i do not go searching for it some place else. But why do I need to put it, where i need to be writing something about the cloud? Because I had an alerting issue to tackle when mailing alerts [...] ... (more)