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Geography Does Matter in the Cloud

| June 24, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , ,

It was recently revealed that the super secret PRISM program basically enables the FBI and The National Security Agency to access private data hosted in the U.S. Does this affect Jelastic and other companies in the cloud? Does geography matter? We think it does, and apparently GigaOM agrees with us, because they published our article…

Tech Support Matters!

| February 27, 2013 | News | , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Professional, reliable, effective and efficient technical support is the foundation of a well-running application and lead to increased productivity, reduced costs and improved profitability. The need for tech support SLAs is one of the top demands we’ve been hearing from our customers and now it’s here! We’re delighted to see our partners, dogado and Layershift,…

From XaaS to Java EE – Which damn cloud is right for me in 2012? (Guest Post)

| December 21, 2012 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Markus Eisele at his blog. Have you ever wondered what it takes to get your Java EE up and running somewhere? I did. For years. Started with hosting my own, moved on to some hosting offerings and finally stumbled upon the PaaS movement. Honestly I didn’t take all that…

Web Hosting: Why Amazon Isn’t Making It Any Better

| October 27, 2012 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , ,

Or, Why Amazon makes web hosting look bad Wait, wha?! Yeah. You read that right. Amazon is almost single-handedly hurting the image of hosting, especially Cloud hosting. “But how?” I’m sure you are wondering. Well, when everyone uses the same provider to do everything from running their apps (Heroku) to powering half of the Internet’s…

The Fastest Way to Deploy Clojure Applications to the Cloud

| July 4, 2012 | News | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Clojure is a rather recently developed language, a dialect of Lisp targeted for the JVM. It came on the scene back in 2007 and has gained a loyal following due to the numerous advantages that it offers developers, especially how it simplifies multi-threaded programming. Clojure on the Jelastic Cloud Clojure is a functional, general-purpose, compiled…

Your Cloud Instance Just Died. We’re Sorry.

| June 30, 2012 | News | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Why Does AWS Keep Failing? It seems like in the last few months, Amazon Web Services has suffered a number of massive outages–outages that have affected millions upon millions of people. When you knock Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram offline, you are going to make a lot people unhappy. But not only that, last night, AWS…

The Jelastic Spotlight: Gamer Friendly Hotels and SteveGood.org

| May 25, 2012 | Case Studies | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

We are starting something new here on the blog for Fridays. Up until now, we were doing more light-hearted stuff but as we were sitting around talking about the different sweet apps that you, our customers, are deploying, we realized that we should be showcasing the apps and the developers! So, as of today, Fridays…

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