January 7, 2011 12:04 AM
Posted by: CarlBrooks
Asia Cloud,
aws,
cloud forecasts,
IaaS in APAC,
IBM,
organic growth,
Singapore,
the 451 groupA new report from the 451 Group paints a picture of cloud computing poised to spread but bound by limits of infrastructure. It's still a tiny fraction of the IT market but advanced Asian governments...
December 10, 2010 8:14 PM
Posted by: CarlBrooks
amazon,
aws,
AWS updates,
crazy,
Full steam ahead,
IaaSDespite blowback from refusing to supply services to whistleblower website WikiLeaks, controversy over congestion, uptime and customer service (or lack thereof), it seems that
November 9, 2010 9:24 PM
Posted by: CarlBrooks
Amazon infrastructure,
aws,
cloud infrastructure,
food fight,
Rackspace,
Rackspace Cloud,
web 2.0,
why pick one cloud over anotherWeb company Mixpanel delivered an informative tirade on why they are leaving Rackspace Cloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS) today. The story basically boils down to "AWS is better potting soil for Web apps," although there...
October 7, 2010 6:09 PM
Posted by: CarlBrooks
4000 servers,
Amazon does not oversubscribe,
Amazon infrastructure,
aws,
back of the envelope,
I was told there would be no math,
IaaS cloud computing,
what's behind the curtainAmazon CTO Werner Vogels said on Twitter that AWS does not oversubscribe its services.
"If you launch an instance type you get the performance you ask (and pay) for, period. No oversubscription," he wrote. An earlier...
May 14, 2010 7:49 PM
Posted by: CarlBrooks
aws,
Federal cloud,
high-level nose tweaking,
Recovery.gov,
stimulus money,
Vivek KundraThe federal government has just launched Recovery.gov running entirely on Amazon's cloud services. Vivek Kundra, federal CIO and cloud champion, is using the site to browbeat skeptics who said that the fed...
May 5, 2010 12:07 AM
Posted by: JoMaitland
Amazon Web Services,
aws,
AWS salesCitigroup estimates Amazon Web Services (AWS) will hit sales of $650 million in 2010, according to a recent article in Businessweek on the prospects for the cloud computing leader....
October 14, 2009 7:53 PM
Posted by: CarlBrooks
amazon,
aws,
hype,
outages,
reports ofmydeathhavebeengreatlyexaggerated,
SideKickAmazon would like to remind you to thank them for the heightened expectations.
So a Web app running on a telecom service goes belly up and cloud is moribund yet again. That seems to be the...
July 13, 2009 4:11 PM
Posted by: Mino65434
amazon,
aws,
cloud computing,
S3We recently came upon some photos displaying, in fancy picture form, the growth of Amazon Web Services in terms of bandwidth usage and objects stored in Amazon S3. The results are impressive, as you'll see below:
