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BotchagalupeMarks for March 31st – 19:05
By John | April 2, 2009
These are my links for March 31st through April 1st:
- Basic Failover Architecture – RightScale Support Wiki –
- What’s All This About ‘Moving to the Cloud’? One Minnesota Entrepreneur Can Tell You How | Minnov8: Minnesota Innovation in Internet and Web Technology – Well, one local entrepreneur, George Reese, is right smack in the middle of all this buzz, and is in a position to help clear up a lot of the confusion about it — especially for enterprises looking to take advantage of the economic benefits of this form of computing. georgereese-book-200w1 His new book on the subject is scheduled to be released by O’Reilly on April 10. It’s entitled “Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud.” (And here’s the Amazon link.)
- Amazon-Based Unified Communications Demoed By Siemens — Unified Communications — InformationWeek – It's only a demonstration for now, but Siemens Monday showed off its OpenScape unified communications software — including voice over IP — running on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).com's EC2 cloud computing platform.
By hosting unified communications applications in the cloud, customers could significantly decrease the amount of time and eliminate much of the capital expenditure it takes to install servers and networking and telecom equipment when rolling out new IP communications services, according to Paul McMillan, Siemens' director of unified communications technical vision and strategy.
- Storage Station – General – Silence Making People Nervous in Impending IBM-Sun Deal – There's been a Cone of Silence for a week now around the impending IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When such a mystery takes place, people get nervous. We're just so used to things happening now and in real time that we often take our eyes off the prize far too quickly.
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