Google recently started the Credential Holder Directory initiative for Google Cloud Certified Professionals. Google Cloud Certifications are around for a while, but Google didn’t have a centralized listing of certified professionals in the past. With the Credential Holder Directory initiative, Google gives an option for professionals to maintain their own personal directories with all relevant… Continue reading Credential Holder Directories for Google Cloud Certified Professionals
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IPv6 on AWS
IPv6 is finally gaining some momentum, thanks to support from several public cloud vendors and data center players in the recent months. Beyond the infrastructure players, the slow migration of several ISPs and corporations towards IPv6 is evident in Google’s IPv6 traffic statistics: Hovering around 13%, the adoption rate is impressive in the recent months… Continue reading IPv6 on AWS
Shellshock bug and the risks
Bash, the quarter century old shell utility on almost all popular unix based systems, is found to be vulnerable. The exploit works by injecting specially crafted values into an environment variable and using it to invoke a shell command. Once the exploit gets to that level, there is hardly any limit on what can be… Continue reading Shellshock bug and the risks
Upcoming AWS / EC2 instance reboot
If you are using AWS and EC2 instances, a reboot of most those instances is on the horizon. Amazon’s AWS informed of this reboot that is scheduled between 02:00 GMT on September 26th and 23:59 GMT on September 30th. Read more about this reboot on Gigaom and Rightscale. Technical Forums on AWS and other sites… Continue reading Upcoming AWS / EC2 instance reboot
Costs of Data Center Outages
This post at VirtualHosting.com discusses several interesting metrics and forecasts. They include Data transfer metrics from/to Data Centers Top causes for Data Center Downtimes Top Cloud Outages due to Data Center Downtimes Projected outage costs As cloud based services become more and more prominent, the reliance on data centers is pushed from end customers to… Continue reading Costs of Data Center Outages
Netflix Open Source – Inauguration
Today, Netflix conducted the inaugural open house of its opensource applications.This is the first ever public event of Netflix in its opensource efforts that started almost three years ago. There are several opensource projects that Netflix lined up for this event. Here are the ones I personally liked Asgard: Web application for application deployment… Continue reading Netflix Open Source – Inauguration