Alexandra Brown

Amazon CloudFront has just announced several new features (specific to CloudFront download distributions) that help customers deliver their full website via CloudFront.   Customers asked to support delivery of their entire website containing static objects, dynamic content, or a mixture of the two. With these features, the goal is to make it as simple as possible for customers to use CloudFront to speed up delivery of their entire dynamic website they run in Amazon EC2/ELB (or third-party origins), without needing to worry about which URLs should point to CloudFront and which ones should go directly to the origin. The set of features include:  The ability to specify multiple origin servers The ability to specify multiple origin servers includes a default origin and available for a CloudFront download distribution. This is useful when customers want to use different ... (more)

How to encrypt file names with CloudBerry Backup

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage. In the newer release we are introducing an option to encrypt file and folder names on the cloud storage for the increased security. To enable this option simply check the Encrypt file names check box on the Encryption and Compression step of the Backup Wizard. As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment. +++ Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 2.5 and later. CloudBerry Backup is a Windows program that levera... (more)

CloudBerry Lab supports HP Cloud

We are glad to announce that our product now fully compatible with HP Cloud which is based on Open Stack.  CloudBerry Explorer freeware and CloudBerry Explorer PRO file manages both have an option to connect to the HP Cloud Storage.  With CloudBerry Explorer you can Register and connect to any number of HP Cloud accounts Work with any number of HP Cloud accounts simultaneously Create, browse, and delete HP Cloud files Create, browse, and delete folders Copy and move files between HP Cloud and your local computer Create Containers List Containers Update container metadata Containe... (more)

The Cloud in Numbers. Plotted.

If you are using CloudBerry Explorer or Cyberduck to access your S3 storage and to configure your CloudFront distributions you may have used the feature to let the service write access logs to a dedicated bucket. CloudBerry Explorer gives you the possibility to get a basic static chart that shows you the number of requests or transferred bytes per day. But what are the options if you want to get a deeper, faster and automated insight into your log files? Qloudstat is a new service offered in the cloud to give you analytics for cloud hosted content without any infrastructure of ma... (more)

CloudBerry Backup How-To: Restoring Only Newer Files

Sometimes you may want to restore the newer version of the file on the target computer over the existing (Older) version. This is particularly important in the Sync scenario, where you want to have your target folder look exactly as the source. In the previous version of CloudBerry Backup that would not be possible and you could just force overwrite every file in regardless of the modification date. This would cause a lot of unnecessary restore operations. In the newer release we have added the Restore only new files option so that only the files with newer modification date could ... (more)