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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Here’s a rip from their news email…
What’s New?
MySQL Templates with Integrated Amazon EBS Support
The trickiest part of running a production database in the cloud has always been the transience of disk storage on AWS instances. When a virtual server is shut down (or crashes), all local storage is lost. In the past, the only solution […]
RightAWS 1.9.0 released
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008RightAWS 1.9.0 Ruby interface for all AWS cloud services. It now includes support for the EC2 windows features as well for CloudFront. Plus a number of bug fixes as well as enhancements. Download from http://rubyforge.org/projects/rightaws
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 […]
RightScale and the Eucalyptus Team Join Forces
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Here is the press release. I hopefully can get a hold the Rightscale guys in an upcoming podcast.
Press Release…
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
Will Microsoft’s virtualization spur a lot more cloud computing?
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Will Microsoft’s virtualization spur a lot more cloud computing?
Crandell said he wouldn’t be entirely surprised if at least one open source cloud computing maven in the “household name” category eventually provides Windows-based storage as an alternative for customers.
Cloud Cafe #15 - RightScale the On-Ramp to the Cloud
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008In this podcast I was able to speak with Michael Crandell the CEO of Rightscale on their recent “Multi-Cloud” provider support for Flexiscale and GoGrid. Micheal walks me through the new announcement and I hit him with a few questions. We also talk a little bit about what they are doing with Eucalyptus, […]
The On-Ramp to the Cloud
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008RightScale announced today that they are adding support for two more cloud infrastructure providers. They have added support for Flexiscale and GoGrid. Some have considered RightScale as sort of the on-ramp to Amazon’s AWS. With this new multi cloud infrastructure support they might start calling them the on-ramp to the cloud.
Press Release
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Rightscale making all the “Right” moves…
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008That was awful… However, they are making some really good partnerships.
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Rightscale Partners with EnterpriseDB for Powerful Cloud Management and Open Source Database for the Enterprise
Botchanmics: The Dimmer Switch
Saturday, July 12th, 2008We were able to catch up with Botchagalupe, the international IT man of mystery, and pin him down long enouth to get his thoughts about whats going in IT.
Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again.
Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, sure, sure.
Johnmwillis: What have you been up to?
Botchagalupe: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive […]
Cloud Cafe Podcast #7
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008In this podcast I was able to speak to a customer of the “cloud”. Tony McCune of Digital Chalk shares some of his experiences and thoughts about the cloud. Digital Chalk has been an Amazon EC2/S3/SQS customer for over two years. We also talk about using a service buss architecture (ESB) for scaling in the […]
Amazon Web Services (Awsome) Meeting Tonight
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008If 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 […]
Bridging The Clouds
Monday, June 30th, 2008Hmmmm… is this true?
Armijo says that several small cloud-computing firms including Elastra and Rightscale are already on board with 3Tera’s standards group.
Bridging The Clouds
Is Everyone an aaS?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008There has been a lot of name calling among cloud vendors and a lot of cloud vendors have been calling other vendors aaSs by defining them into three specific categories. They seem to be making an aaS of themselves in the process. In my opinion trying to fit all cloud vendors […]
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 […]
April 2008 Review Post
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008The end of April has been a little crazy with me traveling to Japan, Australia, and Poland all in three weeks. However my “No Country for Old IT Guys” thread has been getting quite a bit of activity.
The month started with my first Cloud Café Podcast featuring James Urquhart of Cassatt and later […]
Are Clouds for Real?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Duh…
Looks like Benchmark Capital thinks so and they have a pretty good track record. Rightscale announced today they have secured $4.5 million in first round funding from Benchmark Capital. I have been thoroughly impressed with what Rigthscale has done as a provider of “Cloud” services. They build on top of Amazon’s Web Services to provide […]
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. […]
RightAws Ruby library gem for EC2, S3, SQS, and SDB
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008RightAws release 1.7.0, including ActiveSDBÂ alpha
Drupal Barcamp NYC - Podcast #1 Cloud Talk Presentation
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