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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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Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud

no securityNo one in their right mind would send theircritical apps off to the cloud.Another pie in the sky to dream up getting ridof expenses only to make more expenses.Still no Security or...Public clouds are not secure. They are just like the regular Internet. Only put on the public cloud...

Tags: Strategy, cloud provider, Clear, public cloud, security

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Rackspace launches cloud app partner portal

Rackspace on Tuesday rolled out Cloud Tools, a repository of partner tools, applications and services for cloud computing. The marketplace puts apps and tools into four buckets: Monitoring and reporting; Development tools; Systems management; And client software. Cloud...

Tags: Rackspace, Cloud Tools, Portals, Web Technology, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Productivity, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?

Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Gathering clouds brew up a storm

With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...

Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-10-25

News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talks Dennis Howlett: Oracle's Q4 results analysis RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL Bill Gates: Hits and misses [Video] More...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Mary Jo Foley, Bill Gates, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, 3G, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-26

RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL

RightScale, which specializes in cloud computing management for the Amazon Web Services platform today announced support for MySQL Enterprise. The service, which goes live July 1, provides automated deployment, management and scaling, coupled with MySQL Enterprise premium-level support for large database applications. ...

Tags: MySQL, Cloud Computing, Databases, Storage, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Squaring the cloud

Hosting your application in the cloud got a lot easier yesterday â€" 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