60 http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=249 Amazon EC2: Infrastructure Cloud Computing Resources, News and Support (c) 1999-2013 DABCC Inc. Thu, 02 May 2013 12:15:00 0500 en-US http://www.dabcc.com/dabcc/images/logo_dabcc.gif http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=249 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25579 The Trend Micro security software for the Amazon cloud includes host-based intrusion detection/prevention and firewall, hosted on AWS.... Thu, 02 May 2013 12:15:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25574 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and developers to get proof of their cloud know-how.    ... Thu, 02 May 2013 11:59:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25465 Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Infrastructure Services.  This marks a notable course correction for Microsoft, which initially provided Azure solely through a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model.  While many market observers assume that public cloud IaaS in the enterprise is now a three horse race between Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Google, they may be selling Microsoft short. Why might they be underestimating Azure Infrastructure Services?Enterprises lik... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:47:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25417 RW Baird & Coforecasts that Amazon's cloud business will generate $10 billion in revenueby 2016. The wealth management firm credits this growth to an increase in enterprise demand for cloud solutions: the top 10 cloud providers in the market grew 37 percent in 2012, while the top ten system integrators only grew by two percent in the same period.The rise of the cloud in the enterprise space is affecting every traditional technology vendor, including Amazon's counterpart in the data center. ... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:16:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25270 I recently served on a software-defined data center panel hosted by Pacific Crest Capital in Boston. Joining me were representatives from Acquia, Plexxi and Simplivity. While the topic of the panel was the software-defined data center, it immediately became clear that there is one central theme as it relates to anything "software-defined:" the increasing threat Amazon poses to service providers and enterprise IT. And Amazon is worrying traditional IT hardware vendors as well.... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:56:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25319 The word on Pivotal, the new big data venture spun out of EMC and VMware, is that it might pose a serious challenge to Amazon Web Services, which has eaten into both companies' sales by making it affordable to rent computing and storage resources.... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:28:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25314 Nick Hardiman explains what you can expect to see as part of an AWS CloudFormation template. You can modify the template files to customize your web service.... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:13:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25318 Amazon has upgraded its Cloud Drive and introduced a desktop drive version that allows users to sync their Cloud Drive with the desktop app. Useful for both PC and Mac users, this Cloud Drive app creates a folder on your desktop and instantly syncs all the files you put in it. And, if you have the app on multiple devices, it'll sync your files across all those devices.... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:05:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25288 I just got back from a leadership conference where I met with many of my peers that run datacenter VAR (Value Added Reseller) businesses similar to Varrow. One message that came up from a few during the meeting was that "The Cloud is going to totally transform the VAR industry and that folks like Amazon are our new enemy". ... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:01:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25235 Hybrid Express, software for managing hybrid clouds from startup Hotlink, has added an Amazon EC2 plugin to let IT manage cloud instances from Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:21:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25223 There are more than a few organizations trying to manage instances of virtual servers running in Windows environments locally and on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform in the cloud.... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:20:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25230 HotLink Corporation, the market leader in transformation solutions for heterogeneous virtualization management, today announced the latest release of HotLink Hybrid Express, the industry's simplest solution for deploying, administering and managing hybrid clouds.... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:19:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25161 This past week both Amazon and its rivals announced major product updates. The public cloud provider is tweaking its portfolio in order to increase its presence in the enterprise market, while competing vendors are doing everything they can to make sure that they won't get stomped on in the process.... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:35:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25139 Amazon's successful expansion into the traditional enterprise market has triggered a massive response from the data center vendors that once monopolized this space. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante discussed how this competition is driving new trends on yesterday's NewsDesk segment with Kristin Feledy (full video below)... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:38:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25130 Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers are battling in a price war that has seen 29 price reductions by the four major providers during the past 14 months, a trend industry analysts expect to continue.... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:33:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25103 In my quest to get my SaaS trouble ticket app up and running, I've already outlined some of the preliminary business plan and design decisions and decided on the IaaS platform that I'm going to use - Amazon Web Services. In the last post, I introduced the CloudFormation templates that AWS offers. Now it's time to create my cluster.... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:58:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25008 An intriguing report has emerged today that claims the CIA has turned to Amazon to help it build a private cloud. According to the report in Federal Computer Weekly, the spy agency has signed a massive, $600 million deal with the cloud computing company in order to secure its service for the next ten years.... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:03:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25010 Is VMware getting into the cloud provider business? While there's speculation on both sides of the argument, I think the notion that the firm is planning a major infrastructure buildout is highly dubious.... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:16:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24981 Ah, Amazon -- did Jeff Bezos choose that name to symbolise the largest bookstore in the world or did he realise that he would one day create an enterprise cloud service that was as large and complex as the river basin? After spending some time with his enterprise infrastructure service, I think he saw this coming.... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:40:00 0500