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Thursday, March 6th, 2008Microsoft 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
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Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained, Nothing Gained, … #2
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Earlier 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 […]
Look Mom, Two Nines - Amazon S3 Major Outage Today
Friday, February 15th, 2008I guess it’s 99. today for Amazon S3 customers. Man do I have timing or what. We literally moved this blog site server off of AWS this week in preparation for our move over to Mosso this weekend. I have seen reports of AWS being impacted for at least two hours, and […]
What is a Cloud
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Here is my definition of the Holy Grail “Cloud”.
Primary Characteristics
It uses commodity-based hardware as its base. The hardware can be replaced anytime without affecting the cloud.
It uses a commodity-based software container system. For example, a service should be able to be pulled from one cloud provider to any other cloud provider with no effect […]
EnterpriseDB Running on Amazon’s EC2/S3
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008EnterpriseDB AS Cloud Edition Beta Program Targets Key Partners, Cloud Computing Pioneers
EnterpriseDB is the other guy. EnterpriseDB is based on PostgreSQL and has long been considered the other open source database alternative to MySQL. Putting EnterpriseDB on Amazon’s EC2/S3 could make for an interesting mix. Depending on the pricing and reliability, this could be […]
The IBM Amazon Missing Link
Monday, December 17th, 2007Is there a missing link between IBM and Amazon? Let me hold that thought for a few minutes. Over the past year, Amazon has been making some very subtle plays into a game that has been dominated by IBM. Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) provides online, extremely low cost storage (S3) as well as utility computing […]
WOW… Amazon SimpleDBâ„¢- Limited Beta
Friday, December 14th, 2007 Amazon SimpleDBâ„¢- Limited Beta
Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services […]
What if I only had a hour to live?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]
The Skinny on Red Hat and EC2 Clouds
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007This week Red Hat made Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 available as Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud images. For the last few weeks we have been converting all of our web sites over to EC2 images. In fact we can spin a WordPress or Drupal site in less than 15 minutes. So last night […]
Hadoop
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Did you know that this is the technology the IBM is using for thier Blue Cloud initiative? It looks very intersting. It might make for an intersting exercise on EC2/S3 (e.g., data warehousing ).
Welcome to Hadoop!
Public Beta Now Open for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Monday, November 26th, 2007Public Beta Now Open for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Zabovo News
Monday, November 26th, 2007We may be small but we have big ideas. Here are some of the things we are working on…
Does ITIL Really Matter?
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I know this question has been asked many times before but in the enterprise space it seems that ITIL is always a given. My thoughts are maybe changes in the IT industry might change the need for ITIL. To be clear on this I am not proposing to know the answer to this question.
The $80 data center
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007p> The $80 data center: cheap computing or head in the cloud? by ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick — Cloud Computing at the tipping point
Let’s Party 2008 - Utility Cloud Computing
Monday, November 19th, 2007So if 2008 is the year of the utility cloud space computing then why don’t we play the “Gartner Predictions†game on 2008 possible cloud mergers? They never get their predictions right so why can’t we play? The assumption is that a “Tipping Point†has occurred with IBM’s announcement to compete with Amazon’s S3/EC2. […]
I seem to have my head in a cloud today .. yuk yuk yuk
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Here are two more really good articles about the IBM announcement.
IBM’s ‘Blue Cloud’ signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model
Will the biggest clouds stay open source?
May a “Blue Cloud” rain good fortunes upon you
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Yesterday, I received this message from an anonymous sender. I thought it nice, but I had no idea what it meant. Today ,I received another message from Brett Gillett (not the same person who sent the first message). Now I get it…
I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar
“In […]
Should VMWare Worry?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Recently, VMWare is not the darling of Wall Street that it once was. It still has tremendous market share, but the game is changing.
Here are some examples of why, IMHO, VMWare might be in trouble.
1) Google
Google is building commodity-based warehouse data centers, and I doubt that VMware is its predominant virtualization engine of choice. […]
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