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Moodle on Amazon Web Services

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Digital Chalk recently announced integration of Moodle with AWS.  Moodle is an open source Learning Management System (LMS) that is registered with almost 40,000 sites and has over 15 million users.   Many  Universities currently use Moodle as their primary LMS.  Moodle is also used by quite a few service training delivery providers.  Combining Moodle […]

White Paper on ‘Cloud Architectures’ S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

White Paper on ‘Cloud Architectures’ and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS
Very cool!

RumorMill: Microsoft to Rollout EC2 for Windows

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

RumorMill: Microsoft to Rollout EC2 for Windows in October 2008

Elasticfox vs Jollat

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I noticed a new AWS tool for managing EC2 and S3 on the AWS blog called Jollat. I did a quick analysis of the differences between Jollat and ElasticFox and here is a quick list of the plus and minus’ of Jollat:
Plus:

Nice filtering feature for managing images. You can filter by […]

Amazon Web Services (Awsome) Meeting Tonight

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

If you are in the Atlanta are please feel free to come down and join us tonight at:
Georgia Tech ATDC
75 5th Street, NW
ATDC Community Room 2cnd floor
Atlanta, GA 30308
EC2 Tutorial on EC2 - 7pm
I am going to give an EC2 tutorial tonight. There’s a lot of material out on the Web for getting […]

Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It 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 […]

Taking the Hype out of Hyperic’s new Cloudstatus.

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Ok boys, slow down a bit there. I know we are all in a hurry to capitalize on the new industry buzz around the “Clouds”. However, after taking a brief look at Hyperic’s new CloudStatus, it looks like they are riding on all the “hype” associated with the cloud rather than looking for […]

IntrIdea Rolls out Scalr, Updates MediaPlug, Builds Community

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Some more tools for Amzon’s EC2.  With a special eye on Scalr an open source infratructure tool for EC2…
IntrIdea Rolls out Scalr, Updates MediaPlug, Builds Community

Splunk Your Distributed Logs in EC2

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Splunk Your Distributed Logs in EC2

Great Overview of How SmugMug Uses Amazon EC2/S3

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

The SmugMug Approach to Using Amazon’s S3 and EC2
Other link…
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/06/03/skynet-lives-aka-ec2-smugmug/

Amazon Adds High-CPU Instances

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Amazon 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 […]

That’s What I’m Talking About - 3Tera

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Virtualization holds lots of promise: Move your physical machines to virtual ones, and you’ll reclaim capacity at the same time that you make operations easier. But applications seldom run on one machine; instead they’re a combination of servers, switches and routers. 3Tera’s recently announced product road map may let companies provision whole data centers atop […]

Does a Cloud Have to be a Grid?

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Honestly 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, 2008

In 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 […]

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2]: Initial Thoughts on Security Implications

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2]: Initial Thoughts on Security Implications

Is Alpha is the New Beta?

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I 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, 2008

No 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 tanks Google’s (GOOG) stock price

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Google App Engine tanks Google’s (GOOG) stock price
An interesting perspective on the margins of clouds.

Google App Engine on EC2?

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Sticking 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…

Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 .. Well How About That?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Imagine 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 […]

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