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- 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
- Cloud Computing for Students
- Cloud Computing for StudentsRather absurd..."Without opportunities like this, most CS students graduate without ever writing anything bigger than an application written in one programming language that runs on a single machine."Why not? Most large universities have big, heterogeneous environments with Windows, Apple, and several flavors of Unix. As...
- Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine, search engine marketing, programming, Timev Media
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
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- Squaring the cloud
- Hosting your application in the cloud got a lot easier yesterday — but there are still some gaps to fill for hosted application providers. Referring to Amazon's introduction of persistent storage volumes to its EC2 cloud computing service, Rightscale CEO Thorsten Von Eicken declared "clearly the cloud has just squared...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Storage Volume, Storage, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- 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
- Amazon EC2 beefs up its safety net
- Amazon EC2 beefs up its safety netAmazon EC2 storage volumesA few weeks ago it was Elastic IPs and now it's storage volumes in the cloud. Did you see the new announcement Amazon made? The AWS blog has the official stuff and I wrote some more about how it changes the...
- Tags: AWS blog, Amazon.com Inc., storage volume, Amazon EC2, storage
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- News to know: Amazon and SaaS; Firefox memory test; Dell XPS One vs. iMac
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Does the Dell PC XPS One top Apple's iMac are they blind? Michael Krigsman: IT security failure costs UK agency its chairman. George Ou: Ruckus brings smart antennas to the enterprise wireless LAN space ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Memory, Apple iMac, Amazon.com Inc., Google Custom Search, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Emerging Technologies, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS
- ISVs that want to deliver software-as-a-service have to learn a lot of new skills, not least how to build and operate a high-availability, shared-services data center infrastructure. Anyone who heard this month's keynote presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit by Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels will have a keen appreciation of...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Service, IBM Corp., Amazon EC2, Dr Werner Vogels, Software As A Service (SaaS), Data Centers, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
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