The announcement that Win2003 is now an an option on EC2, is very significant, that and EC2’s exit from beta status with an SLA in tow, means that AWS is now very much more appealing to the great unwashed, the SMEs. i.e. the businesses who form the backbone of most of our economies.
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Windows on EC2 = SMEs on EC2
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, Web2.0, tagged EC2 Windows desktop, Jungle Disk, parallels, Win2003, Windows on EC2 on October 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Why Larry hates the cloud, and my data trinity.
Posted in AmazonAWS, ETL, Palo, SQLite, cloud, excel, olap, tagged cloud bursting, Oracle on October 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Last week Oracle certified Amazon EC2 as a supported platform, that same week Larry Elison attacked the concept of cloud computing as pure hype. Obviously, Larry is not happy with this whole cloud thing, and I think it’s not just the threat it poses to the software industry’s traditional licensing model that worries him, rather, as Robert X. Cringely [...]
Clouds no longer pass by Windows.
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, ETL, RSSBus, Web2.0, data, news, tagged cloud, cloud burst, SQLServer on EC2, Windows on EC2 on October 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Amazon today announced that later this year, Windows Server woud be available on EC2. No details on cost and licensing etc. but this is major. Up until now, that portion of the business world who are pure MS shops (a very large percentage especially amongst SMEs) were excluded from taking advantage of Amazon’s amazing (and [...]
Oracle embraces the cloud.
Posted in AmazonAWS, tagged APEX, cloud, cloud bursting, Oracle, Oracle XE on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In a previous post I had wished for Oracle to clarify its position as regards the use of their databases on a cloud platform, well it looks like they have!
They have officially certified Amazon EC2 as a supported platform on which to run their software, not only that, they appear to be embracing the cloud big [...]
Amazon’s SAN in the cloud is a mirage…
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, Web2.0, news, tagged EBS, Elastic Block Store, Elastic IP on August 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning I got very excited. While quickly scanning the headlines of the 1000+ unread feeds that had accumulated in my Google Reader this week, one heading in particular caught my attention, “Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live!“.
The post from the Right Scale folks gives a detailed overview of the new Amazon ‘SAN storage in [...]
Amazon S3; there’s a holdup on the buckets, Dear Liza…
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, news on July 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Amazon’s S3 service has been down since 9.00am PDT but I only noticed an hour ago (2.30pm PDT) when a EC2 instance launch failed.
Am I worried? No, but as I become more and more dependent on such services, perhaps I will, but then again at least I’ll not be alone. WordPress.com and countless others will [...]
NX rather than VNC for EC2 Desktop
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, cloud, tagged Centos, NX, Ubuntu, VNC on June 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The various Amazon EC2 AMIs that I’ve built over the last few years are getting a bit long in the tooth. Most are based on Fedora 4 and nearly all are over-burdened with software I no longer use nor require. Time for some rationalisation.
I figure I need two ‘template’ AMIs, one containing the bare [...]
New Banner, New Logo, New Disk and a new S3 Firefox extension.
Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, tagged Ballinafagh, Blessington, Firefox V3, logo, S3 on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just uploaded a new banner image based on a photo of Ballinafagh Lake at dusk with my new logo layered over it using Paint .NET.
The previous banner was based on this photo of willow ‘down’ covering a lake-side tree at Russeltown on Blessignton Lake.
Both lakes are in fact man-made. Blessington is a [...]
Oracle in the cloud …
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, cloud, tagged Oracle, Oracle 10g Express, Oracle Application Express, Oracle in the cloud on May 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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… not yet, but Bill Hodak from Oracle has just opened a thread over on the Amazon AWS developer forums, looking for feedback on the use of Oracle in AWS projects. First there was Red Hat, then this week’s announcement from Sun and now Oracle; has Amazon managed to turn itself into [...]
SQLite - the ultimate data-smithing tool!
Posted in AmazonAWS, ETL, SQLite, Talend, data, excel, kettle, tagged Amazon SimpleDB, Microsoft Access on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Although my data-smithing tool box is full to the brim with powerful tools such as Talend, Kettle PDI, Picalo and Excel, all backed by the cloud infrastructure of Amazon’s S3, SImpleDB and EC2, there’s one simple yet powerful tool that I always seem to gravitate back to, that tool is SQLite.
Now obviously being [...]
xlAWS - 100,000 downloads?
Posted in AmazonAWS, Proto, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, VBA, programming, xLite, xlAWS, tagged VB6, Community Code on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not sure, but this morning I received my monthly AWS bill, and it was double its usual amount! When I investigated the extra cost it was due to 133GBs of downloads from my www2.gobansaor.com bucket. This is the S3 bucket in which I store the xlAWS zip file, xlAWS being a “library-of-sorts” of [...]
Postgres Plus Cloud Edition is boring …
Posted in AmazonAWS, BI, EC2, ETL, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, olap, tagged Elastra, EnterpriseDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
… and that’s good. That’s how I like my databases, boring, reliable, consistent, easy to use.
SimpleDB on the other hand is not boring, it’s an exciting new shiny thing that opens up a myriad of new possibilities; but first, I and the rest of the developer community, need to tool up and cast aside [...]
xlAWS - Excel VBA Code for accessing Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB
Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, SimpleDB, VBA, excel, programming, tagged API, VB6, xlAWS on February 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been using Amazon’s S3 service from within Excel for sometime now and as there are no libraries or examples for calling AWS services from VBA (or VB6) I had to roll my own. As with most things Excel, getting the job done always triumphs over elegance and industrial strength implementations, in other words [...]
Dublin Bus and PALO ETL - the connection!
Posted in AmazonAWS, BI, ETL, Palo, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, Talend, VBA, excel, kettle, olap, tagged Dublin, Dublin Bus, hmac, sha1, sha1hmac on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Dublin buses, as is the norm with most road-based public transport systems in our increasingly car-choked cities, tend to operate on the basis of “no sign of a bus for ages, then two or three arrive at the same time”. Palo MOLAP ETL options appear to be following the same pattern; we’ve been waiting for [...]
CouchDB = IBM’s SimpleDB and S3 ?
Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, SimpleDB, cloud, data, tagged CouchDb, Damien Katz, IBM on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What if you’re a major player in the IT world and suddenly the internet’s equivalent of your local bookshop releases a mould-breaking cloud-based database service, SimpleDB. This is on top of Amazon’s highly acclaimed document data store service, S3!
Well, if you’re IBM you hire Damien Katz the person behind CouchDB. I think 2008 [...]
SimpleDB + S3 = distributed document-centric database
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, Web2.0, data, excel, news, tagged amazon, Brewer's Conjecture on December 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m a database man. I’ve worked on or about most variations on the theme, from roll-your-own flat files, to hierarchical, to CODASYL network databases, to the current crop of relational and MOLAP platforms. Of late, I’ve being investigating what I think will be the future of database technology, the distributed document-centric database. [...]
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