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- 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
- Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?
- Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?this will work for Small companiesThis will work for small companies, that can't afford the Mainframe with custom logic and custom software. Small companies will be able better to compete against the Large enterprises, I do not see this working for...
- Tags: cloud computing, Cloud computing too-good-to-be-true, small company, too-good-to-be-true, way thing
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
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- 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
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...
- Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Pricing, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Windows, Process improvement, cloud computing, Azure, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?
- What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?Cloud Computing Definition in 4 wordsOther people's virtual serversWhat is the Cloud? What....is computing? These two terms are definitive. We don't need someone trying to define something that is defined already by its terms.Cloud computing is accessing your IT resources through the cloud. The term...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for usIsn't the main advantage of "The Cloud" being Cross Platform Comp.The main reasons I can think of to use the cloud rather than a desktop app is being able to access from basically any web connected computer. If you have to have...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Amazon.com Inc., computer, Open Cloud Manifesto, Amazon Web Services, Web service
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
- Update: Amazon will join Microsoft as two big cloud computing players not signing on to the Open Cloud Manifesto. The manifesto, which has raised a ruckus following a Microsoft blog post, is set to be released Monday with IBM as the ringleader. Given the hubbub it was...
- Tags: Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Standards, Cloud Computing, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- The IT theme for 2009: simplify
- The IT theme for 2009: simplifyWhat's your outlook for the cloud Murph?With the dismal economic prospects, does not the cloud factor in as a means of controlling cost and simplifying? Yes?I am a registered AWS provider.Thanks Murph.Dietrich T. Schmitz[url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/blog/]Linux IT Consultant[/url]Mildly Surprisedhow much I relate to this post. e.g.:"and prayed...
- Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage, UNIX, Operating systems, SAN, Sun Solaris, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-01-10
- 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
- Could Amazon provide a home to Linked Data?
- In a press release issued earlier this month Amazon announced their 'Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services' initiative, providing a free home to potentially massive public data sets and free use of those data by developers hosting their applications in the company's data centres. Larry Dignan...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, RDF, Semantic Web, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Same story for Amazon: Q3 beats, Q4 forecast disappoints
- Same story - different company, different day. This time it's Amazon on the hot seat. The company reported third quarter earnings of $118 million, or 27 cents per share, on $4.26 billion in revenue. statement Profits were up 48 percent from the same quarter a year ago...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2
- Amazon said Monday that it will be adding various Oracle enterprise offerings to its cloud computing service, dubbed Elastic Compute Cloud. The move will give Amazon's cloud services some serious enterprise heft. In a blog post, Amazon said it will offer EC2 services preloaded with Oracle's software--Enterprise...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Storage, Linux, Databases, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Amazon Web Services gets serious about enterprise
- It now seems that Amazon is moving aggressively to make its cloud computing services palatable for enterprise users â€" not surprising, given that enterprises including The New York Times and Nasdaq are now customers, according to a BusinessWeek report this week. Today it announced two enterprise-class paid support options along...
- Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services, Barr, Status Dashboard, Web Services, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables
- There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...
- Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Amazon explains its S3 outage
- Amazon has issued a statement that adds a little more clarity to its Web services outage on Friday. Here's Amazon's explanation of the S3 outage, which wreaked havoc on startups and other enterprises relying on Amazon's cloud. Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Health Care, Amazon.com Inc., Authentication Service, Outage, Manufacturing, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- How to really make money with Web 2.0
- One of the most significant announcements made around the turn of the year attracted very little attention at the time, despite its huge import for the way on-demand applications get created and marketed. I'm talking about Amazon DevPay. Silicon Valley's online chatterati didn't give it much of a second glance,...
- Tags: Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Google AdSense, Amazon DevPay, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Amazon's latest web service? A database
- Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr has been at it again, using Twitter to announce the release of his employer's latest offering. Amazon has come a long way since its days as a big book shop, and is increasingly making a name for itself as an exemplar...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Database, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Amazon S3 service promises 99.9 percent uptime
- Amazon's S3 storage service is growing up and adopting a Service Level Agreement SLA. In a blog post, Amazon Web Services AWS detailed its SLA, which defines a minimum level of performance and imposes penalties if S3 all resources doesn't deliver. Amazon noted that formalizing the SLA was the...
- Tags: S3 Inc., SLA, Amazon.com Inc., Uptime, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
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