February 5, 2012, 9:41 am GMT  

16 item(s) containing the term "amazon"

Why is Amazon hiring like a drunken sailor?

— The most striking thing about Amazon's Q4 filing was that head count was up a whopping 67 percent to 56,200 full- and part-time employees, compared with 33,700 from a year ago, according to Amazon's 8-K filing; 67 percent is a very big number -- even for Amazon.
Feb 01 03:10:10 pm GMT / Structure ? Cloud Computing News and Analysis»

Citizen gateway gov.uk runs on Amazon

— Can it be that the UK government actually gets the cloud? Its gov.uk trial runs on Amazon and is aiming for savings of 80 to 90 percent.
Feb 01 02:39:29 pm GMT / Software as Services Blog RSS | ZDNet»

HP extends discovery service to map Amazon and VMware cloud assets

— HP has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their IT assets in the cloud.
Jan 31 04:54:00 pm GMT / Techworld.com Virtualisation»

Amazon Announces Trusted Advisor

— When considering using cloud computing services, one of the major factors is the level of support that can be provided by the cloud vendor. In particular, when using Infrastructure as a Service, it is vital to ensure that cloud resources are not only appropriately secured but are also running at their most cost effecti...
Jan 31 11:55:25 am GMT / Cloud Computing»

Facebook scammers use Amazon cloud to redirect victims

— Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.
Jan 30 11:36:00 am GMT / Techworld.com Virtualisation»

CloudPassage launches firewall and authentication for cloud servers

— CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.
Jan 30 10:02:00 am GMT / Techworld.com Virtualisation»

The State of NoSQL in 2012

— This is a guest post by Siddharth Anand, a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems team.  Preamble Ramble If you’ve been working in the online (e.g. internet) space over the past 3 years, you are no stranger to terms like “the cloud” and “NoSQL”. In 2007, Amazon...
Jan 24 05:15:19 pm GMT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

What to do when Amazon’s spot prices spike

— Rapid price spikes are effecting buyers on the Amazon Spot Market, where users are bidding extremely high prices for scarce compute capacity. These price spikes are new, and they call into question assumptions that many users have made about how the auctioning of computing resources works.
Dec 28 12:00:46 am GMT / GigaOM » Cloud Computing»

Kindle Fire: Too Small, Too Large?

— Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says Amazon's 7-inch tablet is too small for full-size websites, but mobile sites offer poor user experience.
Dec 07 04:30:00 pm GMT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

Do Cloudfoundry and OpenShift have a Future?

— I am wondering if Cloudfoundry and OpenShift will become success stories (like Amazon Web Services). The idea of an open source application serving platform sounds intriguing, however, the community pages are somewhat deserted and documentation is poor… After downloading the Cloudfoundry source code, it looks mor...
Aug 03 06:36:39 pm GMT / Cloudy Times»

Notes from geekSessions – Network and Infrastructure Scalability

— Here are my notes from today’s geekSessions 2.2 in San Francisco: Allan Leinwand, CTO Zynga Allan gave a short talk on Zynga’s infrastructure, in particular Z Cloud, and Amazon EC2-compatible private cloud. Seems like another proof that AWS is the de-facto standard, at least for compute cloud and storage ...
Jul 27 04:57:46 am GMT / Cloudy Times»

Amazon Technology Open House

— The Amazon Technology Open House was held Tuesday night at the Amazon South Lake Union Campus. I did a short presentation on the following:   •       Quickening pace of infrastructure innovation •       Where does the money go? • ...
Jun 09 01:40:21 pm GMT / Perspectives»

Guido van Rossum: 21 Years of Python

— Guido van Rossum was at Amazon a week back doing a talk. Guido presented 21 Years of Python: From Pet Project to Programming Language of the Year.   The slides are linked below and my rough notes follow: ·         Significant Python influencers: o   Alg...
May 23 05:42:12 pm GMT / Perspectives»

From the Archives - Gapingvoid's Nobody Cares

— While cleaning out the digital attic I ran into this drawing that Hugh MacLeod (aka "gapingvoid") made for me in reponse to a storm-in-a-teacup about blogging Amazon. As usual Hugh came straight to the heart of the matter :-) BTW Hugh's new book "Evil Plans, having Fun on the Road to World Domination" was released la...
Feb 28 07:28:14 am GMT / All Things Distributed»

Amazon CloudFront: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Making Plans

— Looking Back In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year. Looking Forward Our newest edge locations are located in Milan,...
Jan 01 08:00:00 am GMT / Amazon Web Services Blog»

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