Tag: ec2
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EnterpriseDB’s new Postgres cloud database
A little while ago, EnterpriseDBs VP of Biz Dev, Sean Doherty popped in for a visit. While he was here I got him to tell me what EnterpriseDB, the certified professional distribution of the PostgreSQL open source DB, has been up to and fill me in on their new cloud database. Some of the ground…
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Talking to Nodeable CEO Dave Rosenberg (think Twitter for machines)
Yesterday I was out in the bay area to help moderate a Hackeratti shindig on Sand Hill road. One of my fellow moderators was Dave Rosenberg former CEO and founder of MuleSoft. Dave who is also an active contributor to cnet has recently started a new endeavor, Nodeable. This new venture, which Stephen O’Grady of…
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Talking to Ubuntu’s Cloud Man
Today mark’s the release of Ubuntu 9.04, nee “Jaunty Jackalope,” and the debut of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered by Eucalyptus. To get some insight into the release and what it means, I grabbed some time with Simon Wardley of Canonical. Simon, who joined Canonical near the end of last year, is the person tasked…
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Mark Shuttleworth dicusses the Cloud and Ubuntu
Last month Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, CEO of Cannonical Ltd and First African in Space, announced that Ubuntu was going to be making a big push into cloud computing with their release slated for October. This will add to early cloud support that’s debuting in next month’s release, Ubuntu 9.04. (BTW, For a…
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Animoto – The Poster Child for AWS & EC2
At SXSW interactive I came across the booth for the cloud-based app Animoto. I was intrigued since I have seen a couple of Amazon Web Services presentations and both held up Animoto as a great example of an application that would have been impossible to deliver any other way. Animoto, which creates videos for consumers…
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Talking to Sam Charrington of Appistry
The first full day of Cloud Connect last week in Mountain View began with a panel discussion on standards and the cloud. One of the panelist was Sam Charrington, the VP of product management and marketing at Appistry. I was able to grab a few minutes (2:37) with the affable Sam after his session and…
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Microsoft Joins the Cloud Party
Yesterday at PDC, the big Microsoft developer fest, Ray Ozzie got up and announced the beta launch of Windows Azure, Microsoft’s entry into the cloud computing arena. (It may be beta but you’ll notice they already have a snazzy logo) This wasn’t a big surprise to anyone since they had been doing some saber-rattling in…
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Amazon talks about Amazon’s cloud
From the same event where Jeff Keltner of Google talked about Cloud Computing, below is a video of Adam Selipsky, Amazon’s VP of product marketing and developer relations for Amazon Web Services. Adam uses his slot to talk about what Amazon’s been doing in the last couple of years in the area of Web services.…