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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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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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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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xlAWS - 100,000 downloads?

Posted in AmazonAWS, Proto, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, VBA, programming, xLite, xlAWS, tagged , 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 [...]

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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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xlAWS - Excel VBA Code for accessing Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB

Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, SimpleDB, VBA, excel, programming, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Dublin Bus and PALO ETL - the connection!

Posted in AmazonAWS, BI, ETL, Palo, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, Talend, VBA, excel, kettle, olap, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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CouchDB = IBM’s SimpleDB and S3 ?

Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, SimpleDB, cloud, data, tagged , , 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 [...]

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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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CrashPlan - the best backup service yet?

Posted in S3, Web2.0, data, tagged , , on November 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »

You know when you come across something so simple, so obvious and so brilliant you wonder, why didn’t I think of that? Well for personal/small business data backup I’ve just had one of those moments.
CrashPlan is a consumer/SMB orientated backup service following in the footsteps of Mozy (a service I’ve used in the past [...]

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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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CouchDB - document centric ODS

Posted in BI, ETL, S3, SQLite, data, tagged , , on September 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »

While the potential of column-oriented DBMSs within BI projects is obvious given the popularity of MOLAP ( a form of column-oriented data store) the potential for the other new kid on the block, the document-oriented database, is less so. One such DBMS,CouchDb, is the latest wunderkid to bubble to the surface, helped by the [...]

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