“Pulse Live” is now “Sonar”

by Greg Unrein

One feature used by Cedexis Openmix is a simple liveness check service that complements the availability score provided by Radar measurements. Customers use it to augment Radar availability information with a simple HTTP-based ping to a given URL. Up until today we’ve been calling this feature “Pulse Live”, but it is now named “Sonar” thanks

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French presidential election: websites of media on the front line

by Nicolas

May 6, 2012 will remain a historic day in France. France’s new president-elect was chosen. The French election highlighted the importance of the Internet as one of the main ways for retrieving information, debating, exchanging, and sharing through social networks in real-time – and from various locations, using multiple types of devices (laptop, tablet, smartphone,

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Openmix Quick Start: Static Routing

by Greg Unrein

Have you ever thought that your Openmix application was simple enough that you shouldn’t need to write a PHP script to implement your business logic? Today we’ve introduced the idea of Openmix Quick Start applications to address this question. The first Openmix Quick Start application type is used for static routing where Openmix hands back

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Cedexis launches Internet performance reporting tool

by Nicolas

« Which Cloud and/or CDN shall I chose for better delivery of my content and applications in a specific country? » It’s a question all IT decision-makers ask themselves. To start answering it, Cedexis proposes a new data visualization interface available on our website. Every day Cedexis publishes new country-by-country reports on the performance of IT providers (Hosting Companies,

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ViaMichelin rides the highway of success with Cedexis

by Nicolas

The context A 100% owned subsidiary of the Michelin Group, ViaMichelin designs, develops and markets digital products and services to support the mobility of road users in Europe. Building on a century of Michelin expertise in the field of travel, this activity which was launched in 2001, addresses both business and the general public. It

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EuroCloud France 2012 awards: Cedexis, best Cloud startup !

by Nicolas

EuroCloud France has just announced the winners of the 6th « Trophées du Cloud » (Cloud Awards) ceremony taking place during the « États Généraux du Cloud » (Cloud Forum), gathering this year more than 400 people in the premises of the “Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris” (Trade & Industry Commission of Paris) on March 21st, 2012. This new

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Amazon US-East location troubles

by chris

Last week, Windows Azure cloud struggled. Today, several availability zones in Amazon AWS US-East region went down i (US-EAST-1). Here is Cedexis Radar detected in real time… [First edition of this article : 09:50 UTC] As of Thu Mar 15 09:46:21 UTC 2012, Cedexis Radar has detected what appears to be an outage at 3

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Outage of Windows Azure Cloud : Why you need a multi-cloud strategy now

by Nicolas

A few months ago, Amazon’s cloud went through repeated areas of turbulence (on April 21st and August 7th) causing outages for many online services. Another event involving maintenance already generated a rant from customers and IT providers. In the IT news this week you probably saw the reports of an incident involving Microsoft’s Azure Cloud

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