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Amazon ec2 offers a shortcut to SaaS: Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaSAnd now EC2 adds storage volumesAmazon just announced storage volumes for EC2. I wrote about how it changes the game at http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/04/13/The Amazon folks are on a roll!With the addition of the storage volumes there's no doubt in my mind anymore: the cloud adopters...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), storage volume, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon EC2, EC2, storage, software-as-a-service; Discussion threads 2008-04-14
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
RightScale makes ec2 a better fit for SaaS: Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels' presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit see my previous posting was punctuated by a demonstration performed by Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, a start-up that provides a platform to manage cloud computing on EC2. Von Eicken has an impeccable SaaS pedigree, having been chief architect...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Service, RightScale, EC2, RightScale Software, Crystal Reports Implementation, Software As A Service (SaaS), Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-11-20
Red Hat partners with Amazon for Enterprise Linux fabric in Elastic Compute Cloud: Red Hat partners with Amazon for Enterprise Linux fabric in Elastic Compute Cloudnice, but expensive compared to base EC2For companies that really want paid support from Red Hat, this is a nice option, and it's great to see Amazon sign up a major partner like this. However, you can already...; Tags: Business structures, OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise Linux fabric, Red Hat partner, Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, Enterprise Linux, partnership; Discussion threads 2007-11-07
SAP SRM, another brick from the wall: SAP SRM, another brick from the wallSaaS is for Agile OrganizationsI think SaaS winds up being the moral equivalent of Agile Programming. There are certainly a lot of similarities that your post has made me think about:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/saas-limits-over-engineering-too-by-forcing-agile-development/Cheers,BW; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Construction, SAP SRM, Agile, software-as-a-service, wall, SAP AG; Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's ec2?: Last week, when I interviewed Sun's Peder Ulander (there's text, video, and audio -- take your pick) about the idea of redshift computing (a Sun theory that all the world's servers will eventually give way to just five or so massively scalable systems), he talked about how Sun's formula for...; Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Legal, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Amazon mum on ec2, S3 spending: While Amazon delivered a blow-out quarter it remains quiet about detailing how much it is spending on the fast-growing EC2 and S3 Web services. On the first quarter earnings conference call, Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck tried to pin down Amazon AMZN executives on...; Tags: Utility computing, Amazon, Web Technology, General, Enterprise 2.0; Blog posts 2007-04-25
Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?: Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?cluster computingGreat video. It lays out the numbers for why cluster and grid computing stand poised to "revolutionize" the web services business. Rather than dealing in commodity computers, we will begin to deal in commodity computing cycles (C3), where we...; Tags: Servers, Corporate communications, server, EC2, video; Discussion threads 2007-03-24
Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?: Last November, I wrote a post with the title Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Honey, I just shrunk the server hosting business. In that post, I did some simple math to show how a small business like the one I run with Doug Gold (Mass Events Labs, where we host two servers...; Tags: Servers, video, server, EC2, hosting service; Blog posts 2007-03-22
Partners use Amazon ec2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a service: Several announcements show that the Amazon infrastructure-as-a-service model is gaining serious traction, helping todays start-ups/ISVs/SaaS providers quickly create consumer and business services without an IT capital spending budget.LignUp and rPath are leveraging Amazons Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) to historically relieve developers of infrastructure worries and...; Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOIP, Web services, partnership, EC2, Amazon.com Inc., rPath, LignUp Commmunications Applications Server, rBuilder, ISV, developer, S3 Inc., voice; Blog posts 2007-03-22
Glimpsing the future with Amazon's Web services: Doug Kaye, the CTO at GigaVox Media has posted an interesting post on using Amazons Web services as a platform for his new podcasting system. (Disclosure: Im the Executive Producer for IT Conversations which is a GigaVox production.) The system uses S3 for storage, the SQS queue...; Tags: Amazon, Doug, EC2, General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-02-05
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Honey, I just shrunk the server hosting business: News.coms Martin Lamonica has written a two page report on Amazons utility computing initiatives under the title Amazon: Utility computing broker. As many of you know because of the disclosures I often print at the bottom of these blog posts, Im part owner of an event production outfit called...; Tags: server, EC2, Amazon.com Inc., General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Outsourcing, Berlind, Amazons EC2; Blog posts 2006-11-16
With Grid Server and "GPUs", is MediaTemple a managed version of Amazon's ec2?: Back in April 2004, I wrote about HPs vision for utility computing and how the company was looking to make compute resources available and billable on an on-demand basis. One of the questions I had for HP at the time is what the billable unit of measure might be when...; Tags: Grid Server, EC2; Blog posts 2006-10-19
Amazon's Bezos: We make muck so you don't have to: Here at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos kicked things off with a discussion of something he calls muck. It's a dicussion that very much resonates with how I've been talking about why small and medium businesses are better off outsourcing as much of their...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos, Bezos; Blog posts 2006-09-27
What price utility computing for the Web 2.0 era?: When Sun launched its pay-as-you-go Grid service in March, it could have done with having Amazon's new EC2 compute-on-demand service to fall back on. Sun Grid's demo application fell prey to an unexpected surge in demand on the day of its launch. Sun blamed a co-ordinated denial-of-service...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., EC2; Blog posts 2006-08-24
Inside Amazon's ec2: Call it "utility computing" or "Web-scale computing" or "on-demand infrastructure." Whatever the case, Amazon is hoping that its new EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud--why not just S4?) Web service (in the larger sense, as both an interface and an on demand platform) will turn into a big business. In effect, Amazon...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., EC2; Blog posts 2006-08-24
ec2 extends Amazon's S3 with pay-per-use server: TechCrunch has the scoop on Amazon's extension to its S3 storage-in-the-cloud service. According to Nik Cubrilovic's post, the new service--called EC2--will let users access compute capacity by setting up virtual server instances hosted by Amazon. Pricing for the server usage is 10 cents per instance hour, and then the S3...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc.; Blog posts 2006-08-24

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