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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 […]

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 […]

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/

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 […]

Cloud Computing With Python: Google App Engine and Amazon

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I 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, 2008

We 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 […]

(Barack V Hillary) | (Amazon V Google)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Random 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 […]

Cloud Pontification #2

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Smoothspan 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!

Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Game on folks…
Techcrunh: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven’t been contacted by Google. […]

Matching the Customer With the Right Cloud (Part 1)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Previously, I created a “Cloud Vendors A to Z,” and I have received a little push back from some of my new Cloud friends (mostly vendors). I put a stake in the ground by categorizing cloud vendors as either level 1, level 2, or level 3. Although I am still refining my definitions, the bigger […]

Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)

Will Network Management Be the First Causality of the Cloud?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A while back, I was having one of my regular lunches with the world famous BSM blogger Doug McClure, and I was going on about cloud this and cloud that. I mentioned at the time that I wanted to install one of the open source monitoring tools on EC2 and start figuring out what […]

Does Your Hosted Provider Give You This Kind of Elasticity?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A little over a month ago I switched my blog site over from Amazon’s EC2 to Mosso.com in preparation of some viral activities I was planning. Some of those activities did hit and Mosso has supported my traffic fluctuations brilliantly. Even though Amazon uses “Elastic” as part of the EC2 name it really […]

Cloud Talk

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

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Enterprise Beware!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

There was an interesting article yesterday in SearchDataCenter.com about how Motorola is using Splunk to troubleshoot IT management problems. Enterprise Search technologies are being used more and more by large customers to apply Google-like search technology to traditional data center analytics. Companies like Coke and Comcast are using Enterprise Search technologies to […]

Coming Soon - Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon’s SimpleDB

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon’s SimpleDB
Microsoft has begun signing up testers for SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), a forthcoming service that will allow customers and developers to host their data in a Microsoft-hosted database.

Scoble Does Amazon Cloud Talk

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

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Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained, Nothing Gained, … #2

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Earlier this month I attended a local Atlanta Ruby meeting and they were looking for topics regarding their upcoming March meeting. So, I opened my big yap and asked if anyone would like to hear a talk about cloud computing. After a resounding “Yes,” I am now scheduled to give my first “Cloud […]

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