Updated: 2012-10-31 17:02:29
I have been having discussions related to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of running workloads in the cloud as it compares to running them on-premises. One consistent conclusion is that weighing the financial considerations of owning and operating a...
Updated: 2012-10-30 12:55:55
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Matt Lull, Managing Director, Global Strategic Alliances, for Citrix to learn more about their cloud strategy. We talked about their line of virtualization products including Xen, XenServer, CloudBridge, and the...
Updated: 2012-10-30 01:28:50
The AWS Storage Gateway is a service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage. We launched the Storage Gateway earlier this year. The initial release supported on-premises iSCSI volume storage (what we call Gateway-Stored volumes), with snapshot backups...
Updated: 2012-10-22 06:58:00
Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 15 AWS CloudFormation now supports RDS DB Parameter Groups and Provisioned IOPS. Tuesday, October 16 SAP Hana One is now certified for production use on AWS....
Updated: 2012-10-22 03:39:14
For today's episode of the AWS Report, I spoke to Michael Crandell, co-founder and CEO of RightScale. RightScale was founded shortly after Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 were introduced, with the goal of taking advantage of pay-as-you-go infrastructure as service....
Updated: 2012-10-19 05:24:23
In this episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with AWS Evangelist Matt Wood to learn about his track on Big Data and Analytics at AWS re:Invent. The track sounds awesome and I hope to be able to attend some...
Updated: 2012-10-19 05:03:59
Judging from the number of requests that I have had for this particular combination of EC2 features, I'm expecting this to be a very popular post. You can now launch EC2 micro (t1.micro) instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)....
Updated: 2012-10-16 16:11:30
Earlier this year I briefly mentioned SAP HANA and the fact that it was available for developer use on AWS. Today, SAP announced HANA One, a deployment option for HANA that is certified for production use on AWS available now...
Updated: 2012-10-16 16:10:05
For today's episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Patrick McBride of Xceedium to learn more about their Xsuite Cloud product. which runs on AWS (including the Virtual Private Cloud and the AWS GovCloud): Xceedium is a Platinum sponsor...
Updated: 2012-10-15 21:25:34
The Amazon RDS team has been cranking out feature releases at an incredibly rapid pace. I'm working double secret overtime just to keep up with them. Here's what they've released in the past month (Click on the image to learn...
