Emergency cloud computing resources available

June 26, 2013February 15, 2016 Comment

Alberta businesses that have lost access to their servers or computing facilities are invited to use the Rapid Access Cloud on a short-term basis, to get their web sites, email hosting or other services back up and running. [...]

CyberaNet fully operational after the flood

June 24, 2013February 15, 2016 Comment

Last week’s flooding in southern Alberta has affected the CyberaNet, as some of its fibre pathways have been disrupted. There may be occasional outages as repair work is carried out on the network over the next week. [...]

Multi-master MySQL with Galera

June 5, 2013February 16, 2016Site Admin Comment

As we are moving our ‘vclcloud’ compute nodes to run on top of a disk stripe using solid state drives, I think it’s important to look at what the stateful pieces of a system are and how to keep them reasonably available. [...]

Countdown to Calgary’s Startup Weekend

June 4, 2013February 15, 2016 Comment

Early bird tickets for Startup Weekend expire next Tuesday, June 11th. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where people come together to share ideas, build teams, create products, and launch startups. [...]