We are excited to announce a joint webinar with F5 and GoGrid that discusses the top Use Cases and Best Practices for load balancing in a public cloud. When GoGrid launched several years ago, we were pleased to have F5 as a technology partner in our initial offering. It remains a core feature of the GoGrid Cloud today. Recently, with the addition of our East Coast datacenter, we released load balancing for GoGrid infrastructures in that datacenter as well.
Many current GoGrid users are not taking advantage of our free F5 load balancing so if you are one of those customers, we encourage you to attend this webinar. Things to think about:
You can prevent application downtime – when you have more than one server in a load balanced environment, you can rest assured that if one of those servers happens to become unavailable, traffic to your site is automatically redirected to the other available server(s).
Scaling infrastructure – without a load balancer in place, it can be difficult to scale up (or down) your infrastructure.
1-2-3 Process – deploying a load balancer is just a matter of filling out a form and once you configure it, your new load balancer is available in minutes.
Moving beyond the “Free” offering – if your routing needs are more complex, we are here to help with other solutions.
Webinar Details
Title: “Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime” Date: Wednesday, 8/25/10 Time: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time Registration: http://go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
GoGrid Partner, Sentrigo, a database security software innovator, today announced that it will host a webinar with GoGrid focusing on Building Secure, Scalable and Stable databases in the Cloud. The Webinar details are as follows:
Date: Thursday August 12, 2010 Time: 10:00 am (Pacific Daylight time) Duration: 1 hour Registration: http://bit.ly/bNkfd1
Topics to be covered are:
Intro to cloud web service and management tools
Best practices in deploying databases in the cloud
Available data storage options
Technical challenges when protecting remote databases
Securing databases in the cloud
Sentrigo currently has its Hedgehog Database Compliance and Security Suite images available on GoGrid as CentOS 5.3 and Windows Server 2008 server images:
The following Press Release was delivered today discussing the upcoming Webinar.
Yesterday, I posted an article about a webinar we held that was targeted at current GoGrid users. To round out the mix, we held another webinar geared towards users who might be new to Cloud Computing and GoGrid itself. This second webinar, titled “Complex Infrastructure Made Easy – Learn How You Can Leverage the GoGrid Cloud” was recorded on 6/29/10.
Similar to its predecessor, this webinar covered many aspects of the GoGrid 3.0 release. Presenters were Jeff Samuels, Michael Sheehan and Kole Hicks of GoGrid. The topics we discussed included:
Overview: Complex Infrastructure Made Easy
Landscape & GoGrid 3.0: What is the Cloud, GoGrid 3.0 new features
With the release of GoGrid 3.0 a few weeks ago, we held a webinar titled “Complex Infrastructure Made Easy – Learn About the GoGrid 3.0 Release & Our New East Coast Datacenter“. This webinar was primarily geared towards current GoGrid customers. We also did a webinar the next day that was targeted at people who are new to Cloud Computing and GoGrid. I will be posting that webinar shortly as well.
This webinar was recorded on June 28, 2010, the day of the official release of GoGrid 3.0. Presenters were Mario Olivarez & Justin Kitagawa of GoGrid and Ryan Holland of TrendMicro. The topics included:
Overview: Complex Infrastructure Made Easy – GoGrid’s unique value proposition
GoGrid 3.0: The latest version of the GoGrid platform – East Coast demo
GoGrid Security: New services from Cisco, Fortinet, TrendMicro & Sentrigo
PCI Compliance: PCI compliance in the GoGrid Cloud – Demo with TrendMicro
Questions & Answers
I realize that not all GoGrid customers were able to attend this webinar, so I have provided the full recording below (it is also available on our Vimeo channel):
GoGrid is pleased to announce a new Cloud Management option using enStratus as a management service for GoGrid. The following Press Release describing the new offering was issued by GoGrid Partner, enStratus. enStratus is a cloud infrastructure management platform that allows for the deployment, operation and management of enterprise-class application in public and private clouds. Its multi-cloud architecture is focused on the security and high-availability of mission-critical web applications.
enStratus enables enterprises to run applications that operate with sensitive data all within a cloud infrastructure environment.
Webinar – June 23rd
enStratus is hosting a webinar on June 23rd titled: Cloud Security Best Practices from 11:30PM to 12:15 PM Central Time where you can learn how enStratus and GoGrid work together to ensure your security policies and procedures are met for your cloud computing infrastructure. Topics include:
How can I best manage my keys for the cloud?
Can I encrypt my data?
If lawyers subpoena my cloud provider, can they get access to my data?
Can I have users with varying levels of access to my infrastructure?
This week, GoGrid was not only an exhibitor and Silver Sponsor of theCloud Connect Event 2010 in Santa Clara, CA, but also our Lead Senior Software Engineer, Justin Kitagawa, was part of a panel titled “Writing Code for Many Clouds“.
The panel was moderated by Shlomo Swidler (Founder, Orchestratus) and the members included:
Shashi Mysore, Product Specialist, Eucalyptus Systems
Adrian Cole, Founder, jClouds
George Reese, CTO, enStratus
Michael Mayo, Rackspace
Mitch Garnaat, President, CloudRight
Justin Kitagawa, Lead Senior Software Engineer, GoGrid
Sam Ramji, Vice President of Strategy, Sonoa Systems
Each panel member was allowed a few minutes to discuss how their service can be controlled programmatically via an API or other method. This is an important discussion point because many companies and developers are looking to build applications that span clouds. However prior to doing this, these developers must fully understand how a cloud is architected and can be utilized. Obviously, when building a cloud as a vendor, there are challenges and hurdles that must be overcome in the process. Each of the panelists discussed their design decisions and then answered questions presented to them by the moderator as well as by audience members.
As an attendee of this panel, I thought it important to present GoGrid’s thoughts on our own API and how we came to make the decisions behind its development. Below is a video of Justin’s presentation which covers: (more…)
Don’t miss Cloud Connect Event 2010, the first event to bring together executives, IT professionals and developers to explore and define the cloud. See the latest cloud technologies and learn from thought leaders in Cloud Connect’s comprehensive conference and expo . March 15-18, 2010 http://cloudconnectevent.com/
GoGrid is a sponsor of this premier Cloud Computing event and will have a booth there. We hope that you will come and visit us to discuss your Cloud Computing plans. Our staff there will be available for infrastructure consultations, demos and general discussion about the Cloud.
Also, Justin Kitagawa, Senior Technical Lead at GoGrid, will be part of a panel called: “Writing Code for Many Clouds” which is on Tuesday, March 16 (1:30-2:30PM). The panel details are as follows:
On Wednesday February 24, 2010, GoGrid hosted a webinar for new and existing GoGrid users designed to discuss the recent February 2010 Feature updates to GoGrid. There is a blog post that details all of the new features included in the release as well as a screencast which walks through these features and important changes. The webinar covered the following information:
What is our view of Cloud Computing
What is GoGrid
New feature: GoGrid Dedicated Servers
What is Hybrid Infrastructure
A GoGrid Portal Demo
Deploying a GoGrid Dedicated Server
The new GoGrid List View
Walk-through of other Interface Enhancements & Links
Question & Answer Session
The entire Webinar is below and is broken into two parts:
Part One – Overview presentation, discussion of Cloud & GoGrid, demonstration of the GoGrid Portal & GoGrid Dedicated Server Deployments (30 minutes in length)
Part Two – Question & Answer session from the audience and Additional Information (19 minutes in length)
Also included later on in this post is the stand-alone presentation (without audio, demo walk-through or question and answers).
A couple of weeks ago we released a new version of GoGrid which included a variety of exciting enhancements and features. Most notable are:
GoGrid Dedicated Servers
List View of GoGrid Objects
Edit F5 Load Balancers via the API
New Login Page
Self Service Support Links
More details about these features can be found on the following GoGrid blog post. For a quick overview of the new features in the form of a screencast, please watch the video below. I quickly cover many of the items listed above including: