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- 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
- Funniest Quote from Startup Camp
- Pictured above in white holding court with industry celebs Patrick Chanezon (left, Google), Dave Sifry Technorati and Tim Bray Sun, Amazon's Jeff Barr is giving a mind blowing demonstration of how he recently spoke a conference using Second Life. When these three folks get wowed by something, you know its...
- Tags: Second Life, Dave Sifry
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- Making Mashups Mobile 2
- Jeff Barr, web services evangelist for Amazon, discusses Amazon's S3, a Simple Storage Service that allows users infinite and scaleable storage on the internet. Barr expands on how Elephant Drive uses this web service and explains how to get started with S3. by Administrator
- Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Barr, Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-07-10
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- Help is on the way
- It's getting colder in North America. And the bleak economic news may make it seem like spring has been cancelled. But much of the continent will once again be hitting the on-switch for air conditioning in less than nine months. And there's some good news. Help...
- Tags: Air Conditioner, Java, Leadership, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- The End of the Party
- The End of the Partythe naivetetruly is astounding. When Obama gets into full Chicago thug politician mode, it will be fun to see just how deep the denial runs.RE: The End of the PartyAMERICA THE NEW DICTATORSHIP!!!!! Democrats sadly now control the future $ years of this country.Liberal bastards, Universal...
- Tags: Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- A quick update on OpenSUSE
- A quick update on OpenSUSEWindows is not the answerWhat part of issues with Vista in the first place did you miss? [url=http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1910]Read up...[/url] Linux is his answer. Wireless with Broadcom has always been a PITA, they are being dorks and not helping out. BUT ndiswrapper will solve the problem. ]:)RE:...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Novell OpenSuse, quick update, laptop computer, wireless, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled 'Debate Hub' as social, political destination
- If you love using your gadgets -- and you're fired up about this year's election -- have I got a site for you. Less than 24 hours before the first debate, C-SPAN, the cable network known for airing non-stop, unfiltered coverage of government proceedings, has unveiled its...
- Tags: Site, Twitter, C-SPAN, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Hunt for Palin 'hacker': Journalism or mob mentality?
- Hunt for Palin 'hacker': Journalism or mob mentality?So what are you advocating, anarchy?So, are you advocating anarchy where there are absolutely no constraints on moral, ethical, fair and legal behaviour?I am so sick of people who say that it's OK for a person to do something illegal, let alone it...
- Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, Koman, blogger, mentality, Palin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center?
- Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center?CheapHow is cloud computing cheaper for huge corporations?No enterprises are using...the cloud for things like this. Only individuals and small companies that don't want to pay for there own internal IT.In fact, bloggers are the only people...
- Tags: cloud computing, Financial Planning, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Technologists, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?
- Sooner or later, it was inevitable that a server outage would expose Amazon's lack of preparedness for failure. It's ironic that this should have happened within hours of my posting an item here arguing that SaaS vendors should all rely on cloud providers for their infrastructure. Those that do rely...
- Tags: Web, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Manufacturing, Channel Management, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Sears picks new online leader; Let's hope he gets the security thing
- Sears Holdings is expected to name a Microsoft veteran to head its online business. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sears will name James Barr, who was the general manager of Microsoft's MSN Shopping and Marketplaces. Barr will become a senior vice president of Sears Holdings. ...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Leader, Sears Holdings, James Barr, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- The federal budget is finally digital
- At 2,200 pages, how many people actually read the whole federal budget the president sends to Congress each year? Definitely not enough to pay for the cost of printing. And more importantly, how can citizens search through it for programs on interest when it's only in print? OK, enough is...
- Tags: Budget, U.S. Congress, General Accounting Office, Printing, OMB, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Obama turns Facebook fans into delegates
- Barack Obama's victory in Iowa was marked by heavy participation by young and first-time caucusers. The San Francisco Chronicle takes note that this may mark the first time that politicians talk about bringing in young voters actually materialized on the ground. The Obama campaign "had...
- Tags: Facebook, Campaign, San Francisco Chronicle, MTV, Obama, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- 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
- Economics that are impossible to stop
- A few days ago, Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web services AWS evangelist visited my class and got a report of what we'd built over the course of the last semester on top of AWS. Each student had built part of a project that eventually used 25-30 independent machines. One...
- Tags: Database, Amazon.com Inc., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- IBM's Linux contributions
- When Joe Barr got his first look inside IBM's Linux Technology Center LTC back in early 2001 he got pretty gung ho about the wonders this would bring to Linux. Some excerpts: I began to see the LTC not just as a cool thing happening in my...
- Tags: Expansion, IBM Linux, IBM Corp., LTC, Frye, LTC Team, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Second Life plus Twitter for enterprise?
- At the end of last week, I attended a Second Life event organised by Metaversed. 'Second Life? That's so 2006,' I hear the Facebook crowd squak. It may be old hat to some but enterprise players like Sun, Xerox, SAP and Amazon think enough of it that they, along with...
- Tags: Second Life, Twitter, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- Amazon's Flexible Payment System
- Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web Services evangelist and Phil Burns are both people I'm friends with on Twitter, so I was interested to follow an exchange with them a couple of nights ago when Jeff kept promising Phil that "the announcement" was almost ready. What announcement?Yesterday in a long blog...
- Tags: Web Technology, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- ETech 2007 themes: Happy users and pulling resources
- Im picking up a couple of themes at ETech this year--neither of which directly tie into the stated theme of advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic. The first theme Im hearing loud and clear is "user experience, games, and fun." Yesterday, Jane McGonigal,...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Games, S3 Inc., Amazons, game
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- HP won't unstick keys, voids warranty on Ubuntu-loaded notebook?
- Via Slashdot, Linux.coms Joe Barr reports that if you run Linux, you may lose your hardware warranty: Laura Breeden bought a new Compaq Presario C304NR notebook in January.....The salespeople assured her that the C304NR was "Linux ready." But they didnt tell her that running Linux would void her warranty...Until recently,...
- Tags: Keyboards, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, hardware, keyboard, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ubuntu, notebook
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
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