Amazon's announcement of Micro Instances this week ist great news for web sites who need a lower-capacity intense type for simple operations or low-volume processes. Some people have equated Micro Instances with a VPS model, or specifically as competition to traditional mass market web hosts. A small instances is not an offering that replaces a... Continue Reading →
Amazon Named “CloudBzz Innovator of the Year”
2009 has certainly been a cloudy year. The sheer volume of real innovation somehow makes all of the hype worthwhile. While there were many companies doing interesting and innovative things in the cloud - Microsoft Windows Azure could be a strong 2010 contender - the decision on who wins for 2009 is no contest. Amazon... Continue Reading →
Cloud BI & Amazon VPC – Low Hanging Fruit for the Enterprise
Today RightScale did a webinar on their Cloud Business Intelligence offering with Talend, Jaspersoft and Vertica. One of the bigger objections to cloud BI in the past has been security -- how can I move all of this mission critical data to a public insecure cloud? With Amazon VPC now in the picture, the BI... Continue Reading →
Cloud Computing Announcement of the Year – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud!
Last night Amazon announced the most significant cloud development of 2009 - the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The AWS Developer Blog version is here. The importance of VPC cannot be overstated. It will literally change how enterprises think about public cloud providers and the opportunity to gain efficiency and flexibility in datacenter operations. By... Continue Reading →
Deep Data from InfiBase
Update: InfiBase has ceased operations, but the analyses they are providing may continue. Stay tuned. A stealth start-up called InfiBase has published some very interesting data on their blog recently. It makes me want to know more about them, so if you have the scoop let me know. First, they have put out two posts... Continue Reading →
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