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amazon ec2 offers a shortcut to SaaS: Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaSAnd now EC2 adds storage volumesAmazon just announced storage volumes for EC2. I wrote about how it changes the game at http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/04/13/The Amazon folks are on a roll!With the addition of the storage volumes there's no doubt in my mind anymore: the cloud adopters...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), storage volume, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon EC2, EC2, storage, software-as-a-service; Discussion threads 2008-04-14
amazon ec2 beefs up its safety net: Amazon EC2 beefs up its safety netAmazon EC2 storage volumesA few weeks ago it was Elastic IPs and now it's storage volumes in the cloud. Did you see the new announcement Amazon made? The AWS blog has the official stuff and I wrote some more about how it changes the...; Tags: AWS blog, Amazon.com Inc., storage volume, Amazon EC2, storage; Discussion threads 2008-04-13
Bungee Labs opens developer platform-as-a-service: Bungee Labs launched a public beta of a new version of its BungeeConnect, an on demand application development platform for professional programmers. The concept is similar to what salesforce.com is doing with its Force.com platform, although Bungee Labs claims that it is differentiated on the basis of being purely...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Concept, Application, Server, Programming Language, Pricing Strategy, Bungee Labs, BungeeConnect, Amazon EC2, Application Builder, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-18
amazon ec2 offers a shortcut to SaaS: ISVs that want to deliver software-as-a-service have to learn a lot of new skills, not least how to build and operate a high-availability, shared-services data center infrastructure. Anyone who heard this month's keynote presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit by Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels will have a keen appreciation of...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Service, IBM Corp., Amazon EC2, Dr Werner Vogels, Software As A Service (SaaS), Data Centers, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-11-20
News to know: RealPlayer flaw; Wireless speakers; Ubuntu installation; Amazon's EC2: News to know: RealPlayer flaw; Wireless speakers; Ubuntu installation; Amazon's EC2UBUNTUI have tried numerous times to install UBUNTO on a Toughbook CF-27,(with a new HDD,) without success. I am computer literate going back to CPM / PCDOS / MSDOS and APPLE DOS in the 1980's. I am not a Geek...; Tags: Digital music, PRODUCTIVITY, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Installation, Ubunto, Amazon EC2, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Amazon.com Inc., wireless; Discussion threads 2007-10-22

Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?: Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?Google will be one of the big five. They will eventually start sellingelastic computing as well. Right now, one of Google's big competitive weapons is that it can build out data centers faster and cheaper than anybody else...; Tags: Data centers, Sales force management, Google Inc., Redshift, Amazon EC2, Salesforce.com Inc., Amazon.com Inc., hardware; Discussion threads 2007-07-26
With Grid Server and "GPUs", is MediaTemple a managed version of Amazon's EC2?: With Grid Server and "GPUs", is MediaTemple a managed version of Amazon's EC2?Very coolAwesome stuff. Dave, one question that you may have an answer for (or anyone reading, for that matter). You mention "...if you exceed that, you only pay for what you take...", is there a performance penalty while...; Tags: GPU, Grid Server, MediaTemple, Amazon EC2, Amazon.com Inc., server; Discussion threads 2006-10-19
Inside Amazon's EC2: Inside Amazon's EC2Useful, but wrong strategyThis appears to compete with IBM's (and increasingly Google's) 'On demand' initiatives. But why doesn't Amazon see the 'utility' in white labelling its One Click technology (deriving revenue on a per invocation basis) or even better, become a trusted broker of its own and...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon EC2; Discussion threads 2006-08-25
EC2 extends Amazon's S3 with pay-per-use server: TechCrunch has the scoop on Amazon's extension to its S3 storage-in-the-cloud service. According to Nik Cubrilovic's post, the new service--called EC2--will let users access compute capacity by setting up virtual server instances hosted by Amazon. Pricing for the server usage is 10 cents per instance hour, and then the S3...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc.; Blog posts 2006-08-24
In Focus: amazon ec2: See ZDNet's focus on Amazon EC2 for the latest news and perspectives from around the blogosphere.; Tags: Amazon EC2; Blog posts 2006-08-04

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Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?: Every technology company has three main constituencies: Employees, customers and shareholders. Does that last category overwhelm the first two? Should it? These questions are worth asking--at least when it comes to putting technology companies in context. Vinnie Mirchandani and I had this back and forth about Wall...; Tags: Shareholder, Technology Company, Wall, Vinnie, Construction, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
A new must-read for math/science teachers: I stumbled across an extraordinary children's book at our local library (for a town of 600, we somehow manage to have a great library). The book, though published in 1995, is still available new on Amazon. Called Math Curse, it was written by John Scieszca, and answers that fundamental...; Tags: Cereal, Teacher, Math Curse, Fibonacci, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-08
iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?: iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?Adrian, I do not think it is a lack of ....motivation as much of lack of knowing that DRM even exist until they are trapped by it.Oh, come on man...You think people are stupid about this in...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, Apple iTunes; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun: At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others. Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hydrazine, Productivity, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Microsoft delivers a first piece of 'Zune VideoX' via new Zune update: Microsoft delivers a first piece of 'Zune VideoX' via new Zune updateWOW!!!LOLZune what?Thought so.RE: Microsoft delivers a first piece of 'Zune VideoX' via new Zune updateThe Zune is really shaping up to be quite the little gadget. With this update its dramatically leaping forward. Good for Microsoft for...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, PRODUCTIVITY, Podcasts, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance: Leading up the the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-06
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