• Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them

    Updated: 2011-03-29 01:00:00
    : , Print this article Open Source Software Tools And Directories : Where To Find Them , How To Evaluate Them If you are searching for Open Source software where do you find good directories and collections of OSS tools , and how do you evaluate the many candidates available Photo credit : Ophelia Cherry Unless you are looking for popular popular open source software such as the ones available in the SourceForge top downloads or the few ones backed by vendors like Apache Linux MySQL PHP eMule GIMP OpenOffice or VLC Google search might not be your best solution to find specific open source software to suit your . needs For example , if you search for an open source web editor on Google you won’t find BlueGriffon a web editor based on the Firefox rendering engine Gecko a tool I recommend to

  • Adding a Second AWS Availability Zone in Tokyo

    Updated: 2011-03-28 22:14:35
    Our hearts go out to those who have suffered through the recent events in Japan. I was relieved to hear from my friends and colleagues there in the days following the earthquake. I'm very impressed by the work that the...

  • Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances

    Updated: 2011-03-28 06:56:23
    We continue to listen to our customers, and we work hard to deliver the services, features, and business models based on what they tell us is most important to them. With hundreds of thousands of customers using Amazon EC2 in...

  • Build a Cluster Computing Environment in Under 10 minutes

    Updated: 2011-03-22 09:22:45
    We've created a new video tutorial, which describes how to setup a cluster of high performance compute nodes in under 10 minutes. Follow along with the tutorial to get a feel for how to provision high performance systems with Amazon...

  • Updated Amazon Linux AMI (2011.02) Released

    Updated: 2011-03-17 13:34:58
    We released an updated version of the Amazon Linux AMI earlier this week. It is available in all AWS Regions for all instance types. Here's what's new: Default compiler upgraded from GCC 4.1 to GCC 4.4. The AMI kernel is...

  • Upcoming Webinar: Orchestrating the Cloud

    Updated: 2011-03-16 18:47:30
    Amazon's cloud computing platform makes it easy to provision infrastructure resources quickly. Spinning up a single server is straightforward, but larger deployments of multiple tier applications often require a little co-ordination. Join me for the next of our monthly technical...

  • Now Available: Windows Server 2008 R2 on Amazon EC2

    Updated: 2011-03-16 05:52:01
    Today we are adding new options for our customers running Windows and SQL Server environments on Amazon EC2. In addition to running Windows Server 2003 and 2008, you can now run now run Windows Server 2008 R2. Sharing the kernel...

  • A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking

    Updated: 2011-03-15 06:06:28
    You've been able to use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to construct a secure bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud using an encrypted VPN connection. All communication between Amazon EC2 instances running within a particular VPC...

  • IAM Now Available for Amazon CloudFront

    Updated: 2011-03-11 14:08:29
    You can now use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to regulate access to the Amazon CloudFront APIs.For example, you could easily create three separate IAM groups with names and permissions as follows: Group CloudFrontManagement - Access to all CloudFront...

  • Building Powerful Web Applications in the AWS Cloud: A Love Story

    Updated: 2011-03-10 03:33:31
    'Building powerful web applications in the AWS cloud' is a (fictional) love story about scalability. Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a boy named Andy. Andy, like other 25-year olds, was having a tough time...

  • Even More EC2 Goodies in the AWS Management Console

    Updated: 2011-03-09 15:01:48
    We've added some new features to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console to make it even more powerful and even easier to use. You can now change the instance type of a stopped, EBS-backed EC2 instance. This means...

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