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- 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
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- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Polar robots to explore the Arctic
- It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...
- Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- 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
- T-Mobile USA officially announces 3G rollout
- There were rumors of the T-Mobile 3G rollout last week in New York and this morning T-Mobile USA issued the below press release officially announcing that 3G is beginning. Unlike one of the rumors that made little sense, the 3G rollout is for both voice and data and begins in...
- Tags: Network, T-Mobile, T-Mobile International, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Amazon Web Services: Reading the financial tea leaves
- One of the more interesting lines of Amazon's earnings report was the "other" line, which largely includes Amazon Web Services such as S3 and EC2. Reading the tea leaves it appears that Amazon's side ventures are gaining momentum. Unfortunately, tea leaves are all we have. Amazon Web...
- Tags: Financial, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- 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 — 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
- Amazon steps up Web services support
- Amazon Web Services AWS is growing up quickly. The company rolled out premium support services, which will be a welcome sign as more enterprises dabble with Amazon's cloud. AWS rolled out premium support services for Amazon EC2, S3 and SQS with two tiers gold and silver. ...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services, It Services, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- 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 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?
- Just how valuable will Cloud computing be to organizations? The ease of deployment and pay-as-you-go pricing model offered through Amazon Web Services, and now Google with its Google App Engine with no pricing model could be a honey trap, as some of my esteemed colleagues here at ZDNet warn. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Dion, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?
- Updated: Verizon Wireless was the biggest winner in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 Mhz auction. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin revealed Verizon Wireless as the biggest winner of spectrum. Martin made the comments at a press conference at FCC headquarters. Here's Martin's statement (also see...
- Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., Verizon Wireless, Spectrum, Auction, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Cloud computing for enterprises, work it through your head
- Cloud computing for enterprises, work it through your headCloud compute solves IT pain points like email archivingSonian Hosted Email Archiving launched from the Amazon Web Services infrastructure last year to bring cloud compute performance and cost efficiencies to the enterprise. Customers are now starting to think more of IT as...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- 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
- What happens when the cloud doesn't work?
- Update below: Cloud services sound great. A company can host their infrastructure with a large player like Amazon and Google, spend little and grow the business. Data center investment? Why would you do something like that? Those theories are being tested today as Michael Krigsman is on...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Amazon.com: Will you recognize it in 10 years?
- Amazon's fourth quarter results had a little bit of everything for its various observers: Sales were impressive and the outlook wasn't bad, but worries about profit margins are worrisome. But amid all the talk about consumer demand, growth abroad and adding third party sellers to Amazon's platform the "other" line...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Service, Web Services, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- How to really make money with Web 2.0
- How to really make money with Web 2.0DevPay vs PayPalHow is DevPay different from PayPal?RE: How to really make money with Web 2.0where do I sign up?RE: How to really make money with Web 2.0Tell me, I want in on it!RE: How to really make money with Web 2.0Tell me,...
- Tags: Channel management, Web 2, Web 2.0, Web, DevPay, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
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