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BotchagalupeMarks for July 26th – 13:59
By John | July 27, 2009
These are my links for July 26th from 13:59 to 14:53:
- Official Google Research Blog: Predicting Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits – In an earlier blog post, we suggested that Google Trends/Search Insights data could be useful in short term predictions of economic variables. Given the importance of initial claims as a macroeconomic predictor, we thought it would be useful to try to forecast this economic metric. The initial claims data is available from the Department of Labor, while the Google Trends data for relevant categories is available here.
- Amazon – what is coming soon, and what is not ! | Cloudiquity – And what we can expect to see soon:
- VPC (Virtual private cloud) access is in private beta now. This is a mechanism for securely connecting public and private clouds within the EC2 infrastructure.
- High memory instances analogous to High CPU instances are in the pipeline
- Shared EBS is in the pipeline
- Functionality for Multiple users associated with a single account is in the pipeline and will provide simple privileges too. This has long been a bone of contention for organisations using AWS so will be welcomed.
- Amazon is planning to have lot more EC2 workshops through local partners.
Other things of note that we learnt where:
- We learned that large physical instances currently have their own dedicated blade / box.
- As AWS has grown, large number of machines are available and organizations can request hundreds of machines easily. Even extreme cases are catered for i.e. even requests for 50000 machines.
- VMware Is Hiring While IBM Is Firing (VMW) – VMware isn't acting like your average company in this recession. When I look at the virtualization expert's second-quarter report, I see rock-solid business results — and clear signs of cheerful optimism.
- Apple vs. Microsoft: Sticking to one’s knitting – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech – But as Techcrunch’s MG Siegler points out, Apple’s 91% revenue share from computers that cost over $1,000 suggests that Cupertino is actually sticking very close to its knitting — which is to dominate the market for high-margin computing devices. Or, as COO Tim Cook would put it, not to build the most computers but to build the best.
The news hook for Dvorak’s opinon piece this week was Microsoft’s most recent earnings report, which showed revenues down 17% year-over-year in the same quarter that Apple’s climbed nearly 12%.
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