Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Stacey Higginbotham from Gigacom wrote an interesing article about AWS. I found the article opened up an interesting discussion around the future of innovation at AWS.
Stacy says:
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon said that they built AWS for the company’s internal developers, and as such, didn’t feel the need to wrap ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
My day job is managing the worldwide network of spam filtering servers used to provide the EmailCloud service. I have been managing email servers for almost ten years and have quite a bit of experience in the area. Recently I have been using several cloud computing providers to host parts ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I have been talking to several people (Alex Kavanagh, Codeworks Connect, members of the AWS user group and the Newcastle Open Source Network) over the past few weeks about trying to build some awareness of Linux, open source software and my favorite topic, cloud computing.
We have been playing with a ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I found out about zoomi books on the AWS Blog.
I really like the new user interface...check it out for yourself. Zoom in and out, pan around, and try clicking on the arrows in the headers of each book shelf. Check out the attention to detail as the site even displays ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The guys at Rightscale came up with these really easy ways to define the various level of cloud computing offerings; I have slightly rephrased their explanations:
Applications in the cloud: In my opinion this is not 'cloud computing'...it is simply SaaS, Software as a Service, looking to join the ‘cloud’ craze. ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
There are many entrants in the web services / cloud computing / utility computing arena, but at this time the market leader is AWS from Amazon.com. Web services are creating a buzz in the web development industry. If you are involved in the web development industry and you are not ...
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