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NYT: “Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing”

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Enterprise 2.0, Netflix, article, cloud computing on Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 1:55 am | Leave a Comment »

Informative article from the New York Times explaining in layperson’s terms cloud computing and how businesses are using it: Netflix transforming their business with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 3M sticking their toes in, with IBM’s Azure cloud.

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Tim O’Reilly’s Good Keynote At Web 2.0 Expo: With Chunk on Enterprise 2.0

Posted in Amazon Web Services, Assimilate Scratch, EngineYard, Enterprise 2.0, NLE, RightScale, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0, ambient computing, cloud computing, digital cinema, google, heroku, mobile phones, presentations on Friday, 2 May 2008, 11:48 am | 1 Comment »

I always listen to what Tim O’Reilly has to say. Smart guy who knows tech and has a good track record of accurately foreseeing (and guiding) trends (he coined “Web 2.0″). It’s well worth checking out his presentation a couple weeks ago at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. In case you don’t have the [...]

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Excellent Checklist & Schematic for “Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Apps”

Posted in AJAX, Air, Amazon Web Services, EC2, Flash, Google App Engine, JSON, RSS, Ruby on Rails, SOA, SOAP, Web 2.0, Web Services, badges, blogs, gadgets, grid hosting, social networking, syndication, widgets, wikis on Sunday, 20 April 2008, 11:16 am | Leave a Comment »

Dion Hinchcliffe posted this excellent up-to-date diagram and accompanying text on “Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications”, in preparation for a talk he’s giving at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco 22-25 April. Given this teaser and preview, the talk seems it would be well worth catching (either live or hopefully posted [...]

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New & Improved Enterprise Cloud Computing, from Amazon Web Services

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Enterprise 2.0, Nicholas Carr, Web 2.0, Werner Vogels, cloud computing on Saturday, 19 April 2008, 12:45 pm | Leave a Comment »

Phil Wainewright, in his “Software As A Service” blog at ZDNet, has a good post on Amazon’s beefed up Web Services, which include a needed dashboard to monitor the services you subscribe to, called a Health Dashboard: Wainewright praises these new monitoring tools, which up service levels, concluding his post with “AWS is now starting [...]

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