Tag Archives: Xeround

May 6, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Nasty Truth Around Public Cloud Ecosystems

By Ben Kepes

Recently there have been a few high-profile examples of small cloud providers turning off support for one or another public clouds. First came AppFog who made the mysterious decision to cut off all support for their PaaS running on Rackspace infrastructure. Only a few days later Xeround announced that they

Tagged cloud computing, google, Google Reader, Mongolia, OfficeDrop, rackspace, ReadWrite, Xeround |

October 29, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

GreenQloud and Xeround Launch Cloud Database on 100% Renewable Energy

By Ben Kepes

A year or two ago a minor storm circled around the cloud community after a report was published questioning the environmental impacts of cloud computing. The report was pretty flawed – it omitted to take into account the generally lower per-unit impact of cloud as opposed to traditional IT, but

Tagged AWS, cloud computing, Giza Venture Capital, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Information technology, Verne Global, Xeround |

May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

By Ben Kepes

Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first choice for easing the deployment and management aspects of their task,

Tagged AWS, cloud computing, Database, EngineYard, MySQL, PHP, rackspace, Xeround |

September 20, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in their ambition to support a large number of cloud infrastructure providers.

Tagged Amazon EC2, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Heroku, MySQL, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud, Xeround |

June 13, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Goes GA with Cloud Database

By Ben Kepes

Xeround today announced the general availability of its Cloud Database for MySQL Applications. Xeround is a pay-per-use cloud database service that enables customers to only pay for actual resources consumed and not by server/instance size. This can be contrasted with other Cloud Databases, notably Amazon RDS, that require customers to

Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, cloud computing, Database, Heroku, MySQL, rackspace, Xeround |

March 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Xeround Still Has Faith in Heroku

By Ben Kepes

Late last year salesforce.com announced its acquisition of PaaS product Heroku. At the time there was a smattering of concern from users of Heroku as to what the acquisition would mean for Heroku – would salesforce play nice with the product and community? Would developers still want to hang out

Tagged Amazon EC2, Database, Heroku, MySQL, Salesforce.com, SQL, Xeround |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.