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Windows on EC2 = SMEs on EC2

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, Web2.0, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »

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.
Large companies and [...]

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Clouds no longer pass by Windows.

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, ETL, RSSBus, Web2.0, data, news, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Amazon’s SAN in the cloud is a mirage…

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, Web2.0, news, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Talend + SQLite + Groovy the new Oracle …

Posted in BI, EC2, ETL, Groovy, Palo, SQLite, Talend, data, excel, olap, tagged , on August 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »

… well, at least for me.  Let me explain.
For most of my datasmithing career, I’ve had access to corporate Oracle databases and now with the availability of  Oracle10g  Express I can even run my own Oracle instances at home or on EC2.  The combination of a powerful SQL engine, expressive scripting language (PL/SQL) ,OS independence, [...]

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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 [...]

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NX rather than VNC for EC2 Desktop

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, cloud, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Oracle in the cloud …

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, cloud, tagged , , , on May 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Image via Wikipedia 
… 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 [...]

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Postgres Plus Cloud Edition is boring …

Posted in AmazonAWS, BI, EC2, ETL, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, olap, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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The WAN is the new LAN

Posted in EC2, GoogleApps, SimpleDB, broadband, data, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »

While discussing SimpleDB ,Nick Carr points to the polar opposite views that the two computing behemoths, Google and Microsoft, hold as to the future direction of cloud computing. Google’s Schmidt sees an eventual 90/10 split with the cloud being the home to most data and processes while as expected, Microsoft’s Raikes points to the [...]

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SimpleDB + S3 = distributed document-centric database

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, Web2.0, data, excel, news, tagged , 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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Firefox tune up time again …..

Posted in EC2, Firefox, S3, SQLite, Web2.0, tagged , , , , , on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »

This morning Firefox just got slower and slower; clicking on a link or a text box took ages to respond; using online WYSIWYG editors became next to impossible; I was also getting an error when attempting to connect to Google Sync.
I checked the usual suspects; internet connection OK; did a quick HijackThis scan and analysis [...]

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Ruby plus Amazon S3 - Document Centric Database

Posted in EC2, ETL, Ruby, S3, Web2.0, data, tagged , , , on November 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve said it before and I’m going to repeat myself; learning Ruby has proven to be a great investment, not so much for the language itself but for the insights it gives into other technologies. As soon as a new ‘cool’ technology or idea hits the street some smart Rubyist is bound to attack [...]

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Amazon EC2: S, L and XL - now we’re sucking diesel..

Posted in BI, EC2, ETL, RSSBus, Web2.0, tagged , , on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »

As of today, Amazon EC2 now supports two new Instance Types..
… a “Large” and an “Extra Large” instance type to complement the original instance type and provide more flexibility for EC2 users. The new instance types provide more memory, CPU, and instance storage, and are based on 64bit technology. EC2 users can now [...]

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Nirvanix targets Amazon S3 shortcomings

Posted in EC2, S3, data, news, tagged , on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »

Let there be no doubt about it, Amazon’s S3 online storage system is wonderful; it’s secure (both from an technology point of view and from Amazon’s status as one of the web’s most trusted sites i.e. one you wouldn’t worry about giving your credit card to), it’s cheap, it’s pay-as-you-go and it has first mover [...]

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RoR Data Warehouse on EC2

Posted in EC2, ETL, Ruby, data, tagged , on June 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »

If you’ve been putting off evaluating Ruby on Rails and you’re lucky enough to have an Amazon EC2 beta account then it’s your lucky day. Paul Dowman has just made a public AMI (think of it like a virtual machine spec from which you can create a running EC2 instance) with various [...]

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