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Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint

Moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services--or any other cloud platform--sounds like a no-brainer in many respects. You can scale up or down as needed and pay only for the computing and storage you use. The big question, however, is this: How exactly does a company migrate its infrastructure? ...

Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Helpstream, EC2, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?

Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005 on Amazon EC2For more but concise details about EC3, Windows and SQL Server versions, and pricing, see: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/amazon-web-services-announces-sla-plus.html--rjISVs, ISVs, ISVsThis is good stuff, but 90% of the audience short-term will be ISVs software companies - specifically companies...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, ISV, Amazon.com Inc., EC2

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?

Amazon Web Services EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud service has dropped the beta tag, added a service level agreement and launched Windows and SQL betas and plans a management console. Add it up and it appears that Amazon is giving prospective enterprise customers most of the things they...

Tags: SLA, Amazon.com Inc., EC2, Windows Instance, Service Level Management, Microsoft Windows, It Operations, It service Management, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2

Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2No oracle pay-per-use pricingThere isn't much news here. Oracle is not offering pay-per-use pricing on EC2. All they are saying is that you can use your fully-paid upfront perpetual licenses on Amazon servers. Big whoop.

Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, EC2, Amazon.com Inc., Oracle Support, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Amazon: Persistent storage open for EC2

Amazon: Persistent storage open for EC2CorrectionEC2 is Amazon's cloud computing service and not it's storage service (storage service is S3). Adding persistence capabilities to EC2 is big. We are currently looking at cloud computing services and Amazon was not really viable to us without persistence. This moves makes it a...

Tags: cloud computing, EC2, Amazon.com Inc., storage

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision

A new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues about what the Softies are planning to unveil at this October's Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data...

Tags: Zurich, Operating System, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Service, David Chappell, Red Dog, SQL Server Data Services, Application Service, EC2, EC2 Customer, Windows Live ID, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-08-19

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