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		<title><![CDATA[Helllo, I'm a Cloud... and I'm Enterprise Software]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cloud Dudette perhapsCloud Dude, why I am envisioning Jeff Spicoli transplanted into a Cheech and Chong movie!?  If you want an association with Cloud Computing, how about a trim 'Cloud Dudette' .. think Amazon, both the female warrior and the EC2 provider.  She should be traveling with her...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:37:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=26582]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services.    Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:15:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11275]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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? ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:25:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:26:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10549]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:24:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cloud Computing for Parallel Scientific HPC Applications: Feasibility of Running Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Climate Models on Amazon's EC2]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1188403]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper describes the application of HPC standard benchmark tests to Amazon's EC2 cloud computing system, in order to explore the utility of EC2 for modest HPC style applications. Based on these benchmarks one finds that the EC2 cloud system is emerging as a credible solution for supporting responsive on-demand,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:22:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon: Persistent storage open for EC2]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:59:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1536]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:14:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:25:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=417]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:34:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Red Hat partners with Amazon for Enterprise Linux fabric in Elastic Compute Cloud]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:56:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP SRM, another brick from the wall]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11406-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=40215&messageID=741458&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=667]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:06:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon mum on EC2, S3 spending]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4919]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:45:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10741-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31780&messageID=586538&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:44:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=390]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last November, I wrote a post with the title Amazon&rsquo;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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:10:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Partners use Amazon EC2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2437]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:08:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Glimpsing the future with Amazon's Web services]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4435]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:40:07 -0800</pubDate>
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