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Learning in the cloud with Amazon

Amazon announced its AWS in Education program yesterday, opening up cloud-based services to students, faculty, and researchers at accredited universities via grants and/or free access to its services. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is used by everyone from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to Twitter to host applications and is...

Tags: Researcher, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., AWS, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Amazon: king of the enterprise IT cloud

Amazon: king of the enterprise IT cloudAWS Cloud goes mainstreamAs an Amazon WS customer and SaaS provider to the education industry I was pleasantly surprised recently when a CIO touted the decision to go with us to his Board and highlighted the fact that DigitalChalk runs on AWS as a...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., AWS, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-02-15

Living in the cloud

Living in the cloudTry a whole businessWhen we launched out DigitalChalk, a amazon cloud based SaaS, we decided to see if we could run the whole business in the cloud. It was a trial balloon floated in 2006 and still floating. AWS infrastructure, Google apps & Mail and...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), cloud computing, Handhelds, time-I, AWS

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

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

Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings

Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service PaaS OfferingsI realize it might be 6 months before they open it up for businesses andhave paid service level agreements, but, Google is sounding very good right now as a way of delivering applications to customers. It is EXTREMELY expensive to host the applications yourself,...

Tags: PaaS, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...

Tags: Manufacturing, Corporate governance, RAID, outage, Amazon.com Inc., BAD BAD new, Amazon S3 web service, Amazon S3 web services down, BAD BAD, AWS, white board, board, backup, Web service

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS

RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaSHardware vs hostingGreat topic and great points. AWS is a great advance and RightScale makes it more accessible. I would be careful about considering the easy configuration of a hardware stack as managed hosting however. There have been $72/month servers...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), AWS, Rightscale, EC2, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

WeatherNet 1.0 (Mobile)

AWS WeatherNet provides live, up-to-the-minute weather information from over 4,000 sites nationwide.

Tags: Mobile, AWS, AWS WeatherNet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2000-08-22

AWS WeatherNet 1.0 (Mobile)

AWS WeatherNet provides live, up-to-the-minute weather information from over 4,000 sites nationwide.

Tags: Mobile, AWS, AWS WeatherNet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2000-08-22

Additional Resources

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

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

Now here's a ringing endorsement of cloud computing......"HP "wouldn?t put anything material in nature outside the firewall." "Sure gives one confidence, doesn't it? And this company is trying sell people on the cloud...but its CEO doesn't trust it? Nice. :-(Translation: We make a lot of money selling overpriced, under utilizedservers...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., server

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

AT&T Tilt 2 reviewed as last of four Touch Pro2 US variants

Why does everyone bitch about the keyboard?I've got a Fuze and love AT&T's version of the keyboard. I find that I use symbols much more than numbers, so having a dedicated row for symbols actually makes typing faster. I will admit that when I first got it, it was a...

Tags: Cellular phones, Keyboards, AT&T Corp., 3G, AT&T Tilt 2

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

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

Hands on: 32GB Zune HD walk around and first impressions

By that rationale...an iPhone must be compared to netbooks as they are "[i]the same type of device capable of the same type of tasks and are accordingly in the same price range.[/i]"Should the Zune HD be compared with the iPod Touch?I see the Zune as being a media player first...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Notebooks, Zune Premium Headphones, Microsoft Zune, Zune HD, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Samsung SGH-T659 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-T659 (T-Mobile)Samsung, we have a message for you: 2006 called and it wants its phone back. All right, maybe that's mean, but the fact remains that the Samsung SGH-T659 exhibits a design trend that was popular three years ago. And as features go, the SGH-T659 offers nothing that...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Instant messaging, slider mechanism, display, T659, Samsung SGH-T659, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-09-14

Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction

RE: Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction Still thieves not "innovators".failed to live up to his role as "gatekeeper"...In English, that translates to "We lost, therefore somebody must have cheated." Microsoft as a company clearly believes that it simply can do no wrong. They must have attended the...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, I4i, Word injunction

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

EC2Dream 0.92 (Windows)

EC2Dream is a free Graphical System Admin tool aimed at Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus System Administration. It is designed to complement the Amazon AWS Management console. It installs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X client machines. Features include: support for Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus; multiple environments based on access...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., EC2Dream, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-18

On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisition

I smell M$ hereWho is most interested in this deal not completing...M$!The price was more than fair, only some shareholders that were promissed more ca$h by M$ could have come with this frivolous lawsuit.RE: On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisitionNovember 6, 2008 - 5:00 PM EasternThird Quarter 2008 Results...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, acquisition, Joe, stock, On2 Technologies, stock market, Master Corp., shareholder, On2 shareholder, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Amazon: Shares tumble late as Q2 sales fall short; quiet about Kindle

Amazon made headlines this week by looking ahead with the announced acquisition of online shoe retailer Zappos. But the second quarter performance was all about the Kindle e-Book reader. The online retailer today reported second quarter net income of $142 million, or 32 cents per share, down...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-23