Archive for the ‘cloud computing’ Category

Voices in the Clouds

One of the big difficulties of the cloud is properly defining it. I don’t think it will be completely defined for a while yet. Since that is the case, I think I would like to muddy the waters a little more.
Is VOIP a cloud service? It’s a service, runs on the internet, on someone else’s [...]

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Favorite Interface to Amazon AWS?

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I am familiar with several different interfaces to AWS. The three I am most familiar with and have used are Elastic fox, Cloud Studio and amazon’s command line interface. I’ve also heard of a paid GUI …

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Postgres in the Sky (well, EnterpriseDB in the Cloud)

EnterpriseDB Corp announced yesterday that they will be joining Amazon in the cloud. So what the heck does that mean?

Amazon’s cloud computing is also called the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute or Amazon EC2. EC2, when tied with Amazon’s cloud storage (Amazon S3), gives you cheap and easy scalability for your applications. Your computing power moves from your own data center and hardware to the “cloud”. You control the servers but they are virtual servers running somewhere else. You control access, you control what applications are running and who can use them. If you only need a trickle, you pay for a trickle.

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