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« Previous EntriesDo we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on […]
Amazon Adds High-CPU Instances
Friday, May 30th, 2008Amazon EC2 Instance Types
High-CPU Instances
Instances of this family have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications.
1.7 GB of memory
5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
350 GB of instance storage
32-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
Price: $0.20 per instance hour
High-CPU Medium Instance
7 GB of memory
20 […]
Does a Cloud Have to be a Grid?
Friday, May 16th, 2008Honestly I am not sure. Are Mosso and IBM’s Blue Cloud grids? My guess is no. Therefore are they both still clouds. I would say yes to the former and no the latter.
I have tried to avoid Dell’s Blog about cloud computing because I liken it to the “Fox in the Hen House.” I am […]
Cloud Cafe Podcast #3
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008In this third podcast I have a discussion with Michael Crandell the CEO of Rightscale. Michael is a real down to earth kind of CEO who loves the clouds. He gave me an overview of the Rightscale offering. We also talked about some examples of what people are doing with the clouds […]
A Good TechCrunch on AWS - Hold the Mayo
Friday, April 25th, 2008Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups.
…most of them are not the startups that are normally associated with on-demand computing. Rather the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a […]
Is Alpha is the New Beta?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008I was looking over some of these new Bungee Labs announcements. They seem like exciting announcements however … Amazon EC2 is in Beta. Bungee Labs is announcing a “Beta” service in Jun 2008 that will run on Amazon’s Beta. All I keep seeing from a lot of these “Cloud” providers are announcements of pre-announcements that […]
Amazon V Google (What Me Worry)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008No rest for the weary over at Amazon. Today they announced another huge feature. The are going to provide support for AWS. As far as I can tell they are pretty much ready to go prime time (i.e., out of Beta).
Here is a list of the recent annoucmenets for Amazon’s AWS:
Amazon Web […]
Google App Engine on EC2?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Sticking with their theme of build once and output anywhere the clever guys at CohesiveFT have figured out a way of building Google App Engine instances on platforms other than Google. Who need a stinking waiting list…
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Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 .. Well How About That?
Monday, April 14th, 2008Imagine an EC2 image that retains all of its data after its been spinning for a month or so. Well it’s currently under development. Amazon has announced on their development forum they are working with a few vendors adding support for persistent storage. This will be a huge enhancement for Amazon AWS.
Here are some highlights:
Independant […]
Cloud Cafe Podcast #2
Friday, April 11th, 2008This was a fun podcast with two of the founders of CohesiveFT, Alexis Richardson and Patrick Kerpan. They gave me a great overview of their product ESOD. We also talked a little bit about the Google App Engine announcement. I think you will enjoy this podcast.
Listen to the Podcast Here
I wanted […]
Cloud Computing With Python: Google App Engine and Amazon
Friday, April 11th, 2008I will be giving my “Cloud Talk” presentation at the May The Atlanta Python Meetup Group. The esteemed “Python Guru” Noah Gift will first be giving a presentation on “Using Google Engine To Write Python Web Applications”. Who better to get a first glimpse of the new Google App Engine offering from. […]
AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group
Friday, April 11th, 2008We have a venue for the AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group. The Georgia Tech ATDC has graciously allowed us to use their facilities for out meetings.
Agenda:
7:00 Introduction and Group Charter
7:15 David Wright of JungleDisk - AWS and JungleDisk Overview
8:00 Break
8:15 John Willis - Demystifying Clouds (Cloud Talk)
Discussions about the new […]
Businessweek Cloud Smackdown
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Is like me trying to sing RAP music. Last night Businessweek posted an article about “Clouds”. I know this is not supposed to be a technical publication however there are far too many inaccuracies in this article to be ignored.
Amazon’s EC2 cost is .010 per hour not .020.
IBM, HP, and SUN have not long […]
(Barack V Hillary) | (Amazon V Google)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Random Thoughts
Does your head hurt yet? Mine does. I am down in the hotel lobby this morning while the family sleeps in (spring break). CNN is blasting on the lobby TV “Barack vs. Hillary†stuff every ten seconds. I keep expecting to see a breaking Amazon vs. Google scroll on the bottom […]
Google Clouds Demystified?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Then I woke up!
However, after reading the blogoshphere this morning about Google’s App Engine offering, here are my two favorite posts…
App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google
Cloudy weather ahead…
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Cloud Pontification #2
Monday, April 7th, 2008Smoothspan is a SaaS blogger I follow on my reader. He often has good articles on SaaS and stuff, but today, I think he went out on a limb and got a little “cloudy” on his latest topic. See his blog and my comments.
Hurry, The Cloud Computing Platform Opportunity is Perishable!
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Today: Amazon Web Services Down Google Web Services Up
Monday, April 7th, 2008Looks lie EC2 went down today for about an hour, and this evening it looks like Google is going to announce its entry into the Web Services fray.
Amazon Web Services Gets AnotherHiccup
Major Google Announcement Monday Evening: Is It BigTable?
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How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2
Sunday, April 6th, 2008How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2
If I Were a CTO at IBM - “Blue Cloud Stuff”
Friday, April 4th, 2008IBM CTO Presentation in Chicago
I would want to know that Amazon does more than just sell books.
I would have heard of 3Tera.
I would know who Cassatt is.
I would read this article before I mention the Google/IBM Cloud initiative. This way I wouldn’t be confused between the difference between Cloud servers and […]
AWSome Atlanta
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008We have created a new “Cloud Technology” user group in Atlanta. The new group is called AWSome. The kind folk in in Silicon Valley let us piggy back and clone their awesome AWS user group.
Our first meeting will be held Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 7:00 PM. The location is still TBD […]
