Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 24 Jul 2009
We had a meeting with Amazon in the UK recently and covered off some off the pressing issues that we wanted to speak about and also learnt some other of what Amazon have lined up.
First, what is not going to happen anytime soon:
- From what we heard Amazon are not going to resolve the [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 08 Jul 2009
From the Amazon Web Services Blog:
Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon Elastic MapReduce and the ways in which it can be used to process large data sets on a cluster of processors. Since the announcement, our customers have wholeheartedly embraced the service and have been doing some very impressive work with it (more on this in [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Jun 2009
Having worked on a number of projects with Amazon Web Services recently the one non-technical thing that has stood out is the billing model that Amazon adopts which basically forces the company to have a credit card available and then Amazon produce an email with the least amount of information possible on it to tell [...]
Amazon Web Services admin on 01 Jun 2009
There is a good PDF whitepaper on using Oracle with Amazon Web Services which can be downloaded here.
A tutorial by Amazon on creating an Active Directory Domain on Amazon EC2 is a thorough article and well worth the read if you intend to implement this functionality on the cloud.
Simon Brunozzi from Amazon gives a good [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid admin on 16 May 2009
This session was presented at Cloud Slam 09 by Nati Shalom CTO of GigaSpaces. It provides a practical guideline addressing the common challenges of developing and deploying an existing enterprise application on the cloud. Additionally, you will get the opportunity for hands-on experience running and deploying production ready applications in a matter of minutes on [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 07 May 2009
For those of you who missed the Amazon Web Services startup event in London, you can find the customer presentations on Slideshare.net. And view the videos from the links below:
Cedric Roll, Co-Founder, ORbyte Solutions http://www.vimeo.com/4409867
Felipe Padilla, Co-Founder, Skipso http://www.vimeo.com/4409569
Nigel Hamilton, CEO, Turbo10.com http://www.vimeo.com/4409682
Simone Brunozzi, Getting Started with AWS http://www.vimeo.com/4411474
Tal Saraf, Accelerating Your Website with CloudFront http://www.vimeo.com/4409756
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Apr 2009
Compliance and regulatory concerns are often voiced when it comes to Cloud Computing, and often many of the interesting types of applications organisations would like to deploy to the cloud are often those governed by some form of regulatory standard. Lets look in more details at one of these.
PCI DSS is a set of comprehensive requirements for [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 27 Apr 2009
Amazon limit the Windows AMI instance to 10GB in size which almost makes the image unusable if you try and add other software within the windows C Drive. Windows is notoriously heavy on disk space and whereas 10 GB may seem a lot believe us, it isn’t when it comes to windows and a combination [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Apr 2009
A research paper on Cloud Computing by McKinsey & Company entitled ‘Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing’ has kicked up a right old storm with various luminaries either for or against it. The premise of the results of the article are that for large organisations, if they adopt the cloud model, then they would be [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Mar 2009
Mosso are certainly not intent on letting Amazon have everything their own way, posting on their blog, Top 10 Reasons why Cloud Files + Limelight offers a better experience than S3 + CloudFront.
Competition is a great leveler and fuels innovation so I am glad to Mosso taking the lead here. The reasons that they give are reproduced below [...]
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