Category Archives: Cloud Computing

JetS3t 0.8.1 in the wild

Posted on April 10, 2011 by James Murty

The newest version of JetS3t has been released and is now roaming free. Meet 0.8.1. This release has been a long time coming, mainly due to my reluctance to finish the documentation. But it’s finally here and comes with some … Continue reading →

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JetS3t 0.8.0, now with extra Google

Posted on October 3, 2010 by James Murty

I have released the newest version of JetS3t, version 0.8.0. Real Google Storage support Amongst many other things, this release is the first to include native support for Google Storage for Developers (GS). This means that you can now interact … Continue reading →

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JetS3t 0.7.2

Posted on January 10, 2010 by James Murty

As of a couple of weeks ago the latest version of JetS3t 0.7.2 has been available as a public release. In the pre-holiday rush I forgot to post a notification to my own blog. This release includes some bug fixes, … Continue reading →

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Rackspace Cloud Servers API

Posted on July 14, 2009 by James Murty

Rackspace has launched a public beta of their Cloud Servers API. The Cloud Servers product allows you to rent computing resources and is a competitor to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Rackspace has a comparison page that describes, from … Continue reading →

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AWS Management Console: Now with CloudFront

Posted on June 23, 2009 by James Murty

Amazon’s AWS Management Console now supports the company’s CloudFront service, a CDN-like extension for the Simple Storage Service (S3). You can read about this new feature on the AWS Blog and watch an introductory video here.

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Real-world cloud computing

Posted on June 8, 2009 by James Murty

An interesting post with some drawbacks of cloud computing and EC2, from those in the trenches: Real-world cloud computing. There are some real gems here, such as: [They all] used Amazon services, and most if not all of them seemed … Continue reading →

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