Intridea featured in Washington Post
April 28th, 2008
The Washington Post recently profiled Intridea and our products on its WASHBIZ Blog and in print on Monday, April 28, 2008; Page D04. The article explains our MediaPlug, Scalr, SocialSpring, and Smarkr products, and goes on to say that "Intridea may be the model company for the modern Internet economy."
Intridea's Scalr on TechCrunch and AWS
April 3rd, 2008
Since open sourcing Scalr late yesterday we've been mentioned on TechCrunch and the Amazon Web Services Blog
We're extremely happy with the response so far. If anyone is interested in contributing to the project please visit the Scalr Project on Google Code.
Open-sourcing Scalr
April 2nd, 2008
Intridea is officially open-sourcing Scalr - a redundant, self-curing, and self-scaling hosting environment build on top of Amazon's EC2.
Scalr utilizes EC2 to provide a multi-tiered hosting environment with pre-built images for load balancers, database servers, and application servers. Designed with flexibility in mind, users can further customize each type of machine to use as nodes in their server farm or customize a generic base image for any number of purposes. The application monitors and maintains the server farm by reconfiguring the entire cluster when machines fail or when new machines are inserted. Additionally Scalr can be setup to replace failed machines and scale up and down based on user configured thresholds.
The system was initially designed for MediaPlug, a white label audio, video, and image transcoding service that needed to scale based on customer demand.
The project can be found at http://scalr.intridea.com
The project is still very young, but we're hoping that by open sourcing it the AWS development community can turn this into a robust hosting platform give users an alternative to the current fee based services available.