Re:Invent- Amazon Web Services had another first this year with the re:invent conference. The conference kicked off week following ThanksGiving with a full day of partner events, followed by two full days of Amazon Web Services. Not only was this a sweet visit to the good old Vegas strip, it was a great opportunity … read the whole post
Pay By the Hour or Bring Your Own?
By: | May 24, 2011 | Leave a comment
Today Amazon made a big announcement, the availability of Oracle as an option for their Relational Database Service (RDS). What does this mean for the Enterprise?
Cloud to Cloud: Using AWS Simple Email Service from Force.com
By: | February 25, 2011 | (3) Comments
Amazon released a really interesting service not too long ago called Simple Email Service (SES). It allows you to send individual or bulk emails without having to rely on your own mail servers. This is important because sending (legitimate) mass emails while staying off spam blacklists like Spamhaus is no simple task, and you don’t want … read the whole post
Website on S3
By: | February 18, 2011 | Leave a comment
S3 Lab- For this lab we will demonstrate the ease of hosting static content in S3. This should not take very long and is very easy, just follow the steps below or watch the video located here. 1. Open a web browser and go to http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/ here we will select a free website to … read the whole post
What Can the Public Cloud Do For Your Enterprise Today?
By: | January 25, 2011 | Leave a comment
So this is an interesting question: Many small businesses are finding the cloud extremely useful, but how will the enterprises incorporate it? I am sure you have all seen the Microsoft commercials aimed at the consumer “to the cloud!”, and I am sure most of you have used a cloud app before like drop … read the whole post
John and the Beanstalk
By: | January 20, 2011 | Leave a comment
It is a good time to be a developer. The PaaS space is heating up and now developers have a great new option to use to deploy, run and manage their applications, Beanstalk. The name is a departure from the normal Amazon alphabet soup, and is certainly unique and memorable. I’m especially excited about this service … read the whole post
Route 53
By: | January 3, 2011 | (1) Comment
Route 53- So this week I spent some time setting up route53 on a domain we have for testing and I must say it was pretty simple but was harder than it should be. I started out reading the documentation and downloading the tools to get it started and was surprised how difficult AWS … read the whole post
The Freshman Post, and It Is A Whopper!
By: | December 16, 2010 | Leave a comment
Boom, just like that AWS changes the game again. Last night they announced VM-Import. As of now they can only import 32 and 64 bit windows 2008, however they are working on geting the “nixs” working. Can you imagine what this means for diaster recovery? Or what this will do to let enterprises test the … read the whole post
Goats, Lawnmowers and the Private Cloud
By: | October 26, 2010 | Leave a comment
“If you are paying for it when it is turned off, it isn’t a cloud. I can put a goat in my front lawn and it can eat the grass, but I can’t call it a lawnmower” - A public cloud evangelist reflecting on the private cloud. The Private Cloud seems to be gaining traction … read the whole post
Despite All The Apple vs Adobe Controversy, The Solutions Really Could Be Elegant
By: | May 4, 2010 | (1) Comment
Another illustration of how the Apple vs Adobe controversy affects the end customer
Top 9 Cloud Computing Stories of 2009 – (#5) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
By: | December 22, 2009 | Leave a comment
Amazon’s Web Services have been getting better and better, but typically by incremental amounts. Up until now, it’s been a slow trickle of improvements to a solid suite of offerings. Cheap storage, cheap computing power, cheap access to PCI compliance, etc. This new offering however, may truly be a game-changer for their web services division. … read the whole post
EC2 – Easier and Faster
By: | December 4, 2009 | Leave a comment
Today Amazon made a couple of interesting announcements. First off they have opened a new region (Northern California) with multiple availability zones (analogous to data centers, but each on separate flood plains and electrical grids). This further increases their computing capacity and also puts data closer to all of the start-up’s in the Bay … read the whole post
Cloud Loader – “How To”
By: | April 8, 2009 | (1) Comment
We have had a lot of great interest in Cloud Loader, so the next question is "How do I start using it?" Well, here is a simple 5 Step guide to get going with Cloud Loader to start doing integration for $0.10 an hour (or less with a reserved instance). Step 1 – Sign … read the whole post
Introducing Cloud Loader
By: | March 30, 2009 | Leave a comment
So why do I need a server again to integrate with the cloud? Historically one of the arguments against SaaS, or now “The Cloud” was that integration is difficult or expensive. Several great providers have emerged in this space to make integration with cloud platforms inexpensive and more recently, even cloud based. These approaches are … read the whole post
Dear IT Leadership: Please Lead
By: | February 25, 2009 | (1) Comment
Follow Reid Carlberg on Twitter or contact him at rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com. Dear IT Leadership, Today, your business needs you more than ever. The economy is weakening. Competition is intense.. You’ve helped it navigate technologies for years. But the business has immensely complex new challenges today. It needs your help to operate more efficiently. It needs your … read the whole post
Top Five and One Half Amazon Web Services Factoids I Learned in Seattle
By: | February 21, 2009 | (1) Comment
You can follow Reid Carlberg on Twitter or email him at rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com We’ve used Amazon Web Services in my department, but I wasn’t very close to the project. So when I had a chance to take a deeper dive, I jumped at it. Here are some of the things I learned. 1. AWS Dropped prices on their SimpleDB … read the whole post
Web 11.0 and Other Top Buzzwords for 2009 (pt. 1)
By: | December 22, 2008 | Leave a comment
Cloudware — used as early as 2007 to refer to things like Google Maps, normal people will start saying it this year to refer to just about everything. "AWS It" — putting something on AWS’s S3, EC2 or Turk instead of going the dirt computing route. Web 11.0 — someone will surely co-opt this meaningless … read the whole post
Dreamforce Roundup
By: | November 5, 2008 | Leave a comment
We just closed down our booths at Dreamforce and are all heading back to our respective cities. Based on credible sources Dreamforce attendance was just a few people shy of the expected 10,000. That is a very interesting number considering some of the economic news as of late and companies that have travel bans, spending … read the whole post