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
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…)
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).
This past Wednesday night, GoGrid was the host of another StartUp SF (along with co-host Microsoft BizSpark of which we are a Hosting Partner). The guest speaker was David Weekly, founder of PBWorks, a client of GoGrid & ServePath. StartUp SF is a regular meetup in San Francisco designed to help young businesses become more successful. Each meetup has a format designed to stimulate, engage and network in a social learning environment. Each event has a guest speaker who talks about expert subject matter and how it relates to helping startups. Also, successful companies showcase their products and services in an interactive manner with product demos occurring throughout the event.
Tomorrow, strategic partner Stratonomic and GoGrid will be hosting a webinar where you can learn how you can enable the lowest cost Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions in the cloud (specifically the GoGrid cloud). Disaster Recovery is often either ignored because of high-cost concerns or the complicated nature of it. Doing it yourself can be extremely time consuming, difficult and frequently, customers don’t even know where to begin.
I particularly like how Stratonomic phrases it on their site:
(COST) EFFECTIVE FAULT TOLERANCE: Can your disaster recovery (DR) site handle all of your traffic, securely and reliably? Do you even have a DR site? Setting up and maintaining DR site in the cloud is not only extremely cheap, but it will let you sleep soundly at night. How cheap? Save 75% in your OPEX, and over 90% in CAPEX compared to building out and hosting your own DR site. We like to call it DR on a dime.
Luckily, the Cloud offers a great solution for DR, and Stratonomic has created many various Disaster Recovery solutions within the GoGrid cloud that will fit most IT organization’s needs, all starting as low as $349 per month.
Last week, CloudWorld09 Expo took place in San Francisco and GoGrid‘s CEO, John Keagy, did a presentation titled “How To Get Started in the Cloud” to a fully packed room in one of the sessions at the Expo.
The speaker abstract was as follows:
The Cloud Computing phenomenon is happening NOW – it’s a reality and can provide more flexibility for your web hosting – faster, easier and at a lower cost. Companies do not need to own their own server hardware or network infrastructure anymore. The ease of scaling up or out when the need arises, the speed which new web applications can be designed, prototyped, tested, and deployed, and the inherent cost savings (CapEx to OpEx) are truly attractive. Cloud Computing is not just a buzz term we are hearing more and more, but the next wave of hosting infrastructure. As the Cloud continues to gain acceptance, developers, designers, sysadmins and IT professionals need to understand the advantages, best practices and how to get started using Cloud Computing.
In this session, John Keagy, founder and CEO of GoGrid discussed:
What is Cloud Computing – The Cloud Pyramid
The Benefits of Cloud Computing & Hybrid Hosting
What can Cloud Computing do for me and my business
The Competitive Landscape & Key Differentiators
Cost Savings of Cloud Computing – pay only for what you need
How to determine when to utilize Cloud Computing
How should you get started using the Cloud?
How to identify what to put in the cloud first
The presentation is available below as well as on SlideShare.
CloudWorld Expo 2009 kicks off this week in San Francisco, and GoGrid is an exhibitor. Come visit us at booth #525 and see first hand our exciting new release of GoGrid 2.0 (which you can read about here). This show was previously known as LinuxWorld. Last year, we (GoGrid) wonBest of Show and the year before that, our parent company, ServePath, won the Best Grid Solution Product Excellence Award.
We will be giving out high-value credits ($100 and up) for GoGrid at the booth so you are encouraged to drop by and meet with us. Do note that the Exhibit Hall is only open between the following hours:
However, we will be at the booth during the various speaking times so if you do not want to hear a speaker, stick around after the Expo Hall “closes” for more personal time with us.
