I have recently noticed that costs were no longer always touted as the main driver for cloud computing – some have been advocating agility as the primary reason (for example, see here). It’s one thing when this theme gets mentioned in a talk at a technology conference where a company is sharing their experiences. But [...]
Entries from November 2009
Costs vs Agility as Drivers for Cloud Computing
November 17th, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: Economics · cloud computing
Punching UDP Holes in Amazon EC2
November 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Disclaimer 1: Despite its possibly ominous name, this is NOT a network vulnerability or an attack that could lead to unauthorized access. UDP hole punching requires cooperation between two hosts, and hence can’t be easily used as an attack by itself (in other words, in order to run it, you most likely must already have [...]



