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- Biggest cloud of all: Amazon EC2 makes about $220 million a year
- Anyone wondering how the commercial cloud computing business model is working should look no further than Amazon Web Services. Randy Bias just published estimates that AWS is pulling in about $220 million annually for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings. He bases his conclusions on "actual verified...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon EC2, Randy Bias, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud services
- The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud servicesThe difference being[i]However, the same type of thing could happen to any data center whether it is your own or in the cloud.[/i]If your servers are down due to lightning, so are your PC's, I would imagine. The frustrating thing...
- Tags: Data centers, Amazon EC2, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- VMware's cloud computing announcements
- VMware's cloud computing announcementsPlease explain the concept to a non cloud proI am a manager of a company wanting to base our software solutions in the cloud. I need clarification as to how these initiatives and seemingly lacking standards will affect my company in the future. My concerne right now...
- Tags: Channel management, desktop virtualization, Amazon EC2, cloud computing, VMware Inc., cloud computing announcement, supplier
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management console
- Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management consoleElasticfox?While this is good news for hard core IE users we've been really impressed with Elasticfox, a Firefox extension for interacting with Amazon EC2.We've been using this for a while to manage our EC2 usage while building out a Silverlight 2 collaboration application called colaab.Bobhttp://colaab.comThe...
- Tags: Web, AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon.com Inc., Web based management console, Web based Management, console
- Discussion threads 2009-01-09
- Partners use Amazon EC2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a service
- Partners use Amazon EC2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a serviceAmazon is amazingwe've been using Amazon for our GeniusRoom service deployment. It's very reliable, priced right, and we're not charged until we actually use it. We're excited about and interested finding other Amazon partners to work...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon EC2, S3 Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
- 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
Additional Resources
- Helllo, I'm a Cloud... and I'm Enterprise Software
- Cloud Dudette perhapsCloud Dude, why I am envisioning Jeff Spicoli transplanted into a Cheech and Chong movie!? If you want an association with Cloud Computing, how about a trim 'Cloud Dudette' .. think Amazon, both the female warrior and the EC2 provider. She should be traveling with her...
- Tags: enterprise software, EC2
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Google hopes to remake programming with Go
- Could be a really cool programming for old C/C programmers!!I will definitely try it out.No. No pointers.Umm, no. No pointers, no "*" symbols littered in my code anymore, thanks.. . . and, frankly, it pushes typing from bad to worse. No OOP, and no replacement, other than what...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Development tools, Programming languages, cloud computing, large project, object-oriented programming, Google Inc., programming
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals
- Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...
- Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
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