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Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?: On April 7, Google took the wraps off of more than many had expected: Not just a hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform, known as Google App Engine. Google App Engine, which Google announced at its CampFire One developer event on April...; Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, BigTable, SimpleDB, SSDS, Databases, Web Services, Storage, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-07

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Hyperic CloudStatus: Back in May, I posted my take on Cloud computing. Since that time, I've spoken to quite a number of suppliers who are focused on supporting cloud computing, managing cloud computing, and even using cloud computing as a way to provide either a desktop or a server experience without the...; Tags: Performance, Service, Tool, CloudStatus, Hyperic HQ, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software: After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company's application to run against Amazon's SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he'd run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week's heavy usage had cost just a few cents....; Tags: Software, Database, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, DreamFactory, Bill Appleton, Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-06-05
Google App Engine pricing a disappointment: Google App Engine pricing a disappointmentCPU pricing comparison is misleadingEC2 charges by the instance-hour. That is, it costs 10c per hour that each of your EC2 instances is up ($72/month for one instance), regardless of how much load is being put on each instance.If Google is charging by the "CPU...; Tags: Pricing, Google Inc., Google App Engine, Google App Engine pricing, storage, pricing strategy, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-05-29
Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings: The announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build apps on Google's renowned and highly scalable infrastructure underscored a key trend in the software industry today. Namely that software platforms are moving from their...; Tags: Google Inc., Platform, PaaS, Amazon.com Inc., Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-04-11

Google announces App Engine: Should Amazon worry?: Just like most of us thought, Google's new App Engine appears to be a direct competitor for Amazon web services. And in true Google fashion, the service is being opened up to the first 10,000 developers that request an account -- free of charge. Of course, that will...; Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Google to launch BigTable this week?: It sounds like the press is being briefed on a new service Google is about to release to developers -- possibly as early as this week. The service is called BigTable, and it has been proving itself for quite a while as the storage engine behind many Google services....; Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., BigTable, Pricing, Storage, Marketing Research, Marketing, Hardware, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-04-06
News to know: Microsoft vs. Amazon; Cracking wireless LANs; iPhone; AMD: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped Surface Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB George Ou: New tool cracks most enterprise wireless LANs Forbes: Gates no longer the richest man John Morris:...; Tags: Apple iPhone, WLAN, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Web 2.0, LANs, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Web Browsers, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Internet, Networking, Sales, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB: Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDBMap Reduce, massive paralllel?I understand I can store unlimited information, and use REST to store/retrieve that information. I suppose that the REST command will contain a SQL- or LINQ-like statement in one shape or another will be passed in the REST command.The key piece...; Tags: Databases, Amazon SimpleDB, Microsoft Launches, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., database; Discussion threads 2008-03-06
Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB: Microsoft has begun signing up testers for SQL Server Data Services SSDS, codenamed "Sitka," a forthcoming service that will allow customers and developers to host their data in a Microsoft-hosted database. Microsoft officials were reticent to compare SQL Server Data Services to offerings from any competitors. But...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., SQL Server Data Services, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-05
H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?: Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...; Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash; Blog posts 2008-02-20
Microsoft%27s+Yahoo+play%3A+Some+love+it%3B+some+hate+it: Microsoft%27s+Yahoo+play%3A+Some+love+it%3B+some+hate+itForgotten MSN?Microsoft is in the entertainment business, though it's easy to forget. Yahoo does manage entertainment.And there's money to be made in internet advertising, of course. A great deal of money growing quickly. Microsoft is buying market share, though the premium is high.Google makes its money selling...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft%27s+Yahoo+play%3A+Some+love+it%3B+some+hate+it; Discussion threads 2008-02-01
Amazon.com: Will you recognize it in 10 years?: Amazon's fourth quarter results had a little bit of everything for its various observers: Sales were impressive and the outlook wasn't bad, but worries about profit margins are worrisome. But amid all the talk about consumer demand, growth abroad and adding third party sellers to Amazon's platform the "other" line...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Service, Web Services, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-01-31
How to really make money with Web 2.0: How to really make money with Web 2.0DevPay vs PayPalHow is DevPay different from PayPal?RE: How to really make money with Web 2.0where do I sign up?RE: How to really make money with Web 2.0Tell me, I want in on it!RE: How to really make money with Web 2.0Tell me,...; Tags: Channel management, Web 2, Web 2.0, Web, DevPay, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-01-23
How to really make money with Web 2.0: One of the most significant announcements made around the turn of the year attracted very little attention at the time, despite its huge import for the way on-demand applications get created and marketed. I'm talking about Amazon DevPay. Silicon Valley's online chatterati didn't give it much of a second glance,...; Tags: Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Google AdSense, Amazon DevPay, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Amazon's latest web service? A database: Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr has been at it again, using Twitter to announce the release of his employer's latest offering. Amazon has come a long way since its days as a big book shop, and is increasingly making a name for itself as an exemplar...; Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Database, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Economics that are impossible to stop: Economics that are impossible to stopIndeedImpossible to stop indeed. There are massive forces at work driving cloud computing and centralization. Amazon fires the latest, but far from the last shot with Simple DB:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/to-rule-the-clouds-takes-software-why-amazon-simpledb-is-a-huge-next-step/RE: Economics that are impossible to stopCompetition is definitely welcome to keep Amazon from becoming a...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-12-14
Economics that are impossible to stop: A few days ago, Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web services AWS evangelist visited my class and got a report of what we'd built over the course of the last semester on top of AWS. Each student had built part of a project that eventually used 25-30 independent machines. One...; Tags: Database, Amazon.com Inc., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Phil Windley; Blog posts 2007-12-14
Amazon rolls out beta of its cloud database: Amazon has announced the limited beta of its SimpleDB, a database Web service designed to ride shotgun with Amazon's S3 storage service and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon's Simple DB provides real-time lookup and querying of structured data, which will presumably be stored on the S3 service. According to...; Tags: Database, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, Pricing Strategy, Storage, Web Services, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-14
Red shift meets event horizon: Red shift meets event horizoncentralization risksPhil, Excellent post - much food for thought. I actually agree that there are dangers in too much centralization of the computing grid, though I think that, for economic reasons, we're going to see considerably more centralization for the foreseeable future (though far from total...; Tags: Data centers, Storage, Strategic planning, Greg, Amazon.com Inc., data center, centralization, event horizon, Subodh; Discussion threads 2007-12-13