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Almost! Micro Focus just deployed a managed mainframe emulation environment that runs on top of Amazon EC2. The beauty of this environment is that you can execute CICS or IMS code in the cloud, essentially unmodified. Micro Focus innovation has three significant benefits: (a) your existing code investment is protected, (b) costs are much, much […]

You are invited to join the Amazon SimpleDB team on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9am PST for the first session of our new Developers Brown Bag. During these once monthly webinar sessions, developers will hear from the technical experts behind SimpleDB, and have the opportunity to engage in live Q&A. Interested developers may register […]

Amazon CloudFront was designed to make it really easy to distribute content to users at high speed with low latency. Here are some new tools which provide a nice end-user interface to CloudFront. The newest Freeware release of the CloudBerry Explorer now includes CloudFront support. You can create and manage distributions, assign CNAMES, and even […]

Cirrhus9 (mentioned yesterday) and Pfizer are co-sponsors of a roundtable discussion on the topic of cloud computing and biomedical research. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels will be in attendance at this unique event, where they’ll discuss the emerging demands of biomedical research and how they can be met using cloud computing. The roundtable will be help […]

As usual, I’ve got plenty to blog about. Here’s a glimpse at some of the interesting things that have recently landed in my inbox. On Thursday, January 8th, Information Week and Amazon will present a Webcast titled How To Plug Into The Cloud. Attendees will learn how Eli Lilly has used Amazon’s EC2 servers and […]

AWS is a finalist in two categories of the Crunchies awards, Best Enterprise and Best Overall. In addition to that, AWS-powered applications from Animoto and SlideRocket are candidates for Best Design; eBuddy and Fotonauts are up for Best International; DropBox for Best New Startup of 2008; and Twitter (competing with AWS) for Best Overall. GoodGuide […]

This is a quick post about another great use of Amazon Mechanical Turk. Over on Friend Feed Jean-Claude Bradley posted a blog post called Mechanical Turk Does Solubility on Google Spreadsheet, which talks about using Mechanical Turk to process solubility data for the Open Notebook Science Challenge. What I believe is revolutionary here is that […]

I’m Simone Brunozzi, technology evangelist for Amazon Web Services in Europe. This period of the year I decided to dedicate some time to better understand how our customers use AWS, therefore I spent some online time with Stefan Fountain and the nice guys at Soocial.com, a “one address book solution to contact management”, and I […]