Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category

How to create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Machine Image (AMI) CentOS 6 S3 Backed or EBS Backed

This how to article will go over creating a Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI) S3 backed as well as EBS backed. In this particular example we are creating a Centos 6 64bit AMI from beginning to end. I wrote a blog about this topic in 2010 and decided to freshen it up a bit with a CentOS 6 build.
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50+ Million Objects Totaling 220+ Terabytes in Amazon Web Services S3 Cloud

As Director of Systems Engineering for VMIX, one of the best parts of my job is to share data for different technologies we use and have success with.
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VMIX Leverages Amazon Web Services to Localize Video Processing in Europe and Asia

VMIX Completes Rollout of Local Video Storage and Processing in Europe and Asia Using Amazon Web Services

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VMIX (www.vmix.com), a leading carrier-class online video platform provider, today announced that it has completed rolling out localized video storage and processing for clients in Europe and Asia using Amazon Web Services.
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16 Million Objects Totaling 61 Terabytes – Yes, We Believe Amazon S3 Can Scale!

As Director of Systems Engineering for VMIX, it is my job—my department’s job—to scale our infrastructure to meet our clients’ needs, ensuring a high level of service availability and performance.

And each year that goes by, our online video platform usage grows at a pace that could give anyone an ulcer, especially if you don’t come up with a creative solution to scale.
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