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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 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

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

Additional Resources

Red Book: Report of the committee on Infectious Diseases (RedBk) 12.0.3 (Mobile)

Red Book: Report of the committee on Infectious Diseasespowered by Skyscape Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics The Red Book - The authorative guide to the latest pediatric infectious disease information brings you the latest clinically tested guidelines on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 conditions....

Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Mobile, Hepatitis, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Federal Government, Tools & Techniques, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Government, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-25

Bob Dylan to voice GPS? Who do you want directing your drive?

Technically it should be a woman's voice as men are more likely to listen to it. But if I had to pick, I'd say Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.RE: Bob Dylan to voice GPS? Who do you want directing your drive?hmm... I'd rather listen to a woman's voice, but...

Tags: Bob Dylan, voice, GPS

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

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

Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a Mac

Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacWell, Linux just works too. McCains campain was like going to Win3.1NT.RE: Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacHmmm. Linux "just works" if you're a Linux head. thanks for reading,David MorgensternLinuxWell we can call Cynthia Green a Suse, Ralph Nader...

Tags: Desktops, OK Windows, Obama, Apple Macintosh, Clinton Campaign, Newsweek, PC

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

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

When Linux gets cited as a matter of course, it's truly gone mainstream

When Linux gets cited as a matter of course, it's truly gone mainstreamGetting Huckabee to runMy reading of the Lichtman criteria says Obama doesn't need to (he's favored anyway), though it certainly wouldn't hurt him (third party and independent candidates always help the challenging party, no matter where they stand...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

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