16 posts tagged Elastic Compute Cloud

Pay-as-you-go in the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence space is getting some more traction as Vertica moves its technology to Amzon’s Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure computing infra-structure. Vertica’s database organizes data by columns, as opposed to rows.

Sun announces availability of OpenSolaris OS 2008.05 Sun and the global OpenSolaris community today jointly announced the immediate availability of the OpenSolaris Operating Systems at the Sun CommunityOne developer conference.

In a recent conference call Amazon has announced that it has reached over $131M in sales during the fourth-quarter of 2007 from its Web Services, which much or less means more than $500M in revenues for the entire fiscal 2008 for Amazon coming solely from its Web Services.

How many Cloud Computing platforms would you say there are today?  Some abhor the notion of there being multiple clouds - by this thinking there is only one “cloud” in an almost Zen manner, meaning “the grid” and the ability to reach in, somewhere somehow, and use someone else’s compute capacity,

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Amazon announces that they will have support for persistent storage in an upcoming release. Right now it is being used privately by a handful of EC2 users. This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes, for use with Amazon EC2 instances.

Remember that Web 2.0 Google Developer Event we were telling you about? You know the one where you can learn all about web development the Google way? Well there's a reason for you to attend that event for sure now... Google has just released, in private beta, a new service called the Google App Engine.

Amazon EC2 Tutorial Amazon EC2: Launching a linux based web server on EC2 via the FireFox EC UI plugin and connecting via SSH. Amazon Web Services What is S3 and EC2? Do these services from Amazon live up to the hype and will they be around in the long run? Amazon S3 Tutorial on setting up Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service).

Everyone wants to talk about "the cloud" right now. For technology industry watchers, cloud computing is a cocktail party conversation term du jour. For IT leaders, though, it's time to be careful: read more

EC2Deploy is a Groovy-based framework for quickly deploying enterprise Java web applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Deploy your application to up to 20 Linux servers and pay by the hour. Great for development and testing.