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rackspace – Performance Cloud Servers

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Compared to existing cloud servers, Rackspace said its new servers offer 4x more total RAM, 2x more total CPU performance, and 132x more total disk I/O, and are specifically designed to work with Cloud Block Storage.

Powered by OpenStack, performance Cloud Servers are designed with RAID 10-protected solid state disks, Intel Xeon E5 processors, up to 120 GB of RAM and 40 Gigabits per second of network throughput, according to the announcement.

 As seen on: http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/rackspace-updates-public-cloud-servers-for-speedy-application-performance

 

As for pricing, Rackspace has dropped the price about 33 percent, in addition to the upgrading its cloud architecture.

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ZeroVM – The Cloud Hypervisor

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ZeroVM is efficient because it is made to virtualize applications, not machines. The runtime virtualizes only the server parts that do the actual work at hand – making it much faster. Today, the fastest virtual servers take at least two minutes to create, while ZeroVM takes less than 5 milliseconds – or 1/20,000th as long. ZeroVM is fast enough that you can put every request into its own mini-VM to spread horizontally.

Making things smaller, lighter and faster also provides greater security. ZeroVM is fast enough to isolate each individual user in a separate container, which delivers greater granularity of security and control.

Source: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/zerovm-smaller-lighter-faster/

Rackspace announced on Monday that it has acquired ZeroVM, a lightweight open-srouce hypervisor created by LifeStack

Source: http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/rackspace-acquires-open-source-hypervisor-zerovm

National Security Agency has secretly infiltrated the main communications

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Detail of an internal “NSA presentation slide” published by the Post. The sketch shows where the public Internet meets the private cloud maintained by Google, and points out — with a smiley face — that the data within the cloud is unencrypted (though Google is now working to encrypt such information).
(Credit: The Washington Post)

The National Security Agency has secretly infiltrated the main communications links connecting worldwide data centers of Yahoo and Google, Washington Post’s Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani report.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-infiltrated-both-yahoo-and-google-2013-10#ixzz2jENRzVcf

aspera and zencoder

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Zencoder is the performance leader in cloud-based video encoding, with the fastest and most widely used solution in the market. Fast encoding speeds, extreme scalability, and an easy API integration enable content providers to quickly deploy Internet video to consumers on virtually any Internet connected device. Seamless integration with Aspera high-speed transfers ensures the fastest content ingest significantly shortening end-to-end production time.

JOINT FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Aspera fasp embedded directly within Zencoder
  • Ensures maximum transfer speed of the media files and immediate start and parallel processing of encoding jobs

“We’re seeing upwards of 500 megabits per second of throughput up to the cloud, which, depending on some variables, is an incredible improvement above just standard FTP or HTTP.” A transfer of a one-hour DNxHD video file that could take 10 hours over FTP, now completes in less than 26 minutes using Aspera. On top of high-speed transfers, Aspera’s patented fasp transfer technology encrypts files in transit and at rest, assuring bulletproof security for business-critical content.

Source: http://asperasoft.com/fileadmin/media/Case_Studies/Zencoder_AsperaCS.pdf

cdnjs.com, 542 js libraries served by CloudFlare CDN

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http://cdnjs.com/ hosts an HUGE LIST of js libraries  – 542 – served by CloudFlare CDN!
Hooray!

Everyone loves the Google CDN right? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN.
The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries.
We host it all – JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc!

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At CloudFlare, we believe that open source, community-driven projects like CDNJS are the tools upon which the future of the internet will be built. CloudFlare is proud to provide the global CDN infrastructure that will help power that future.