| Mar 09, 2009 |
“Portfolio.com takes a peek inside today’s cutting-edge corporate IT and finds the beginning of a real revolution. Talk about remote control: When Eli Lilly’s Dave Powers needs to fire up a rack of servers so scientists can run an experiment modeling, say, a potential blockbuster drug, he pulls out his iPhone and taps the screen. When the job is done, he flicks his finger and the computers disappear. Literally. They’re located in the “cloud,” or to be more exact, at one of Amazon.com’s massive data centers. Lilly rents computational time from the virtual vendor, paying only for the firepower it needs at any given moment. When a job is done, the meter stops ticking.”
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| Mar 04, 2009 |
“As the recession deepens, a small but growing number of people are taking their skills online, doling out expertise or performing specified tasks for a fee. Labor-at-the-keyboard sites are gaining popularity as people increasingly turn to the Web in search of work. One site is Mechanical Turk (www.mturk.com), a Web service run by Amazon.com Inc., pays workers to perform tasks, such as cataloging products online.”
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| Feb 12, 2009 |
Data Center Knowledge: “IBM and Amazon Web Services have partnered to allow developers to use Amazon EC2 to build and run a range of IBM platform technologies, the companies announced today. The agreement with IBM, perhaps the company most identified with corporate IT, is the latest indicator of the growing traction for Amazon’s cloud computing platform among enterprise users. The old maxim that “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” underscores the significance of the partnership. At a time when many corporate IT departments are debating the merits of cloud computing, the IBM-Amazon partnership is a signal that IBM sees Amazon’s public cloud as enterprise ready.”
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| Feb 12, 2009 |
“Amazon Web Services customers will soon have a pair of options for managing their systems from an Apple iPhone. Ylastic, which makes a browser-based management dashboard for EC2 and other AWS services, released a version for the iPhone and Google’s Android platform this week. The company is charging US$10 per user per month for the mobile application. Meanwhile, an EC2 management app for the iPhone is now in development at the Rochester, New York, application development firm Directthought. The company is hoping to have the application, directEC2, ready for sale on Apple’s App Store within a month, said senior software architect David Kavanagh”
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| Feb 05, 2009 |
“Amazon in December released the beta version of SimpleDB, which is part of Amazon Web Services. Amazon SimpleDB offers businesses using cloud-based applications a place to store simple data. While not useful for all Web-based data storage, Amazon SimpleDB can work well in environments where users needs to quickly look up data.”
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| Jan 17, 2009 |
“Cloud computing offers more flexibility than the traditional setup. You could, for instance, rent 10 servers for when your website traffic peaks at 7 p.m. but scale back to just two for when traffic wanes at 2 a.m. This promise of more flexibility and lower costs has grabbed the attention of many business owners.” This article profiles two AWS customers: FlyMiwok and TC3 Health.
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| Jan 06, 2009 |
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Wall Street and Technology: “Nasdaq stores many terabytes of Nasdaq, NYSE and Amex data in Amazon’s storage cloud; according to Claude Courbois, associate VP, product development, Nasdaq adds 30 gigabytes to 80 gigabytes of data every day to the cloud, about 300,000 flat files each representing 10 minutes’ worth of trading activity on a stock.”
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| Jan 05, 2009 |
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NetworkWorld: “Amazon adds new S3 twist: Make people pay to access your data. Amazon.com Inc. has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data owners shift the cost of accessing their information to other people or entities.”
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