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Sunday, April 5th, 2009Amazon has offered a new web service that provides Hadoop services called Elastic Map Reduce. Hadoop is a Java based framework that implements Map Reduce. Map Reduce is a method of programming that gives a program the capability of breaking a job up into hundreds or even thousands of separate parallel processes. [...]
Amazon Announces Q4-2008 Earnings
Friday, January 30th, 2009Looks like Amazon is doing OK. Here are some highlights…
Net Sales up 18% for the quarter and 29% for the Year.
Free Cash Flow up 16%
Free cash flow $1.36 billion
Operating cash flow $1.70 billion
Net income increased 9% to $225 million
Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 31% to
$2.89 billion
Employees 20,700
A conference call was held yesterday. [...]
Introduction to Clouds
Sunday, January 18th, 2009With Cloud Camp Atalanta coming up this Tuesday (1/20/09), I figured I would put together a short list of some of my best podcasts as an introduction for someone who is new to the cloud. Here is a list of five of my podcasts, in order, that might serve as a good introduction and tutorial [...]
I’m always thinking about my good pal Botchagalupe
Thursday, January 15th, 2009I got wind of this on the Cloud-o-Shpere the other day and I thought I would forward this over to Mr. Botchagalupe. Here is the email I sent him, in case your inteterested…
John Willis <john.willis@zabovo.com>
I thought of you for a job at Amazon
john.willis@gmail.com <john.willis@gmail.com>
Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:41 [...]
Adobe Launches Dev Tools In Amazon’s Cloud
Monday, January 12th, 2009Adobe Launches Dev Tools In Amazon’s Cloud
The LiveCycle ES Developer Express product is available through Amazon Web Services, which opens the retailer’s data center for developing and hosting online applications and storing data. Amazon calls the former the Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, and the latter the Simple Storage Service, or S3.
Hosting elastic applications in the Cloud using Scalr
Friday, November 21st, 2008Hosting elastic applications in the Cloud using Scalr
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Rackspace v Amazon (Mano-a-Mano)
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Mosso, Rackspace’s Cloud Division, Enables Cloud Files with Limelight Networks Content Delivery Service
Rackspace/Mosso’s Cloud Files now has a CDN hook similar to Amazon’s new CloudFront. Basically you store data in “Cloud Files” and enable the data for Limelight’s CDN. Then Limelight’s network pulls it from the closest Mosso server, caches the content [...]
What Color is Your Cloud?
Monday, November 17th, 2008I’ll admit I have hated CA for as long as I can remember. At the first startup I ever worked at we used to have Mary Kay cosmetic like sessions with “Kill CA” painted in Pink blood all over our faces (not really, but close). Although, I have never worked for Tivoli [...]
Awsome Meetup 11/11/08 – Google App Engine and Ylastic
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Agenda:
7:00 Google App Engine
Noah Gift, local Atlanta Python and GAE expert, will be giving a presentation on Google App Engine. Noah is currently working on a GAE book for O’Reilly.
8:00 Ylastic
A local Atlanta cloud vendor will show their Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard and tools. They will also be able to talk about some of [...]
CloudDroplets
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Drop 1
For the rest of the year I am working for the man… Hence, I have a 1 hour commute every morning. I am going to try and make good use of my time by recording short Cloud briefings each morning reviewing any relevant cloud news in the cloud-o-Sphere. This is my [...]
EC2 on Windows
Monday, November 3rd, 2008I couldn’t sleep last night so I started playing with the new Windows AMI’s on Amazon’s AWS. Here is a short and sweet howto:
First I updated my Elasticfox plugin to 1.6.000075
Then I brought up Elasticfox and did an AMI search for “windows”. I noticed there were a few public AMI’s out there so [...]
Amazon Buzz
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Is Amazon in Danger of Becoming the Walmart of the Cloud?
Amazon, Friend of Foe?
What do you do when the rain forest is on fire?
Saturday, October 25th, 2008I have no idea, however Amazon’s Web Services is on fire…
Here is what they are up to lately:
Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
There’s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2.
Microsoft SQL Server is now available in beta form [...]
Showtime – Windows on EC2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Windows on EC2 Documentation
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Running Windows
Amazon S3 Tiers Pricing
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Current storage price (through Oct 31, 2008)
US: $0.150 per GB
EU: $0.180 per GB
New storage price (effective Nov 1, 2008)
US
$0.150 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.140 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.130 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.120 Storage used / month over 500 TB
EU
$0.180 First 50 TB / month [...]
Photoblogs and Amazon S3
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Photoblogs and Amazon S3
Windows on Amazon’s Cloud
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Amazon EC2 running Windows Server
Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating [...]
Awsome Meetup with RightScale
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Rightscale has been kind enough to come to our little neck of the woods and talk clouds at our next meetup. We are still firming up the agenda but it should be a fun night in the clouds.
Oct 14th Meetup
Location
Georgia Tech ATDC
75 5th Street, NW
ATDC Community Room 2cnd floor
Atlanta, GA 30308
Cloud Computing Applied to Network Management
Friday, September 26th, 2008Cloud Computing Applied to Network Management
link via The Tech Teapot
