Rough Type (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
I saw that Amazon's chief technology officer, Werner Vogels, has picked up on the album-a-year meme over at his blog. It seems to me that a guy who's running a heavy-metal utility computing operation should be a serious headbanger, and Vogels, I'm relieved to say, does not disappoint. Fresh Cream, Live at Leeds, Back in Black, Raising Hell, Appetite for Destruction, Nevermind,...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Here is Werner Vogels’ keynote titled “Uncertainty” from The Next Web Conference 2008. Vogels shares with us that “everything fails all the time. We lose whole datacenters! Those things happen.” and “let us worry about those things, not you as a startup. Focus on your ideas.”. An interesting presentation wheter you are considering using [...]
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4life (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
According to Werner Vogels's blog post entitled Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store has launched , it seems that my friends at Amazon have plugged a gaping hole in their cloud computing platform story. Werner writes Back in the days when we made the architectural decision to virtualize the internal Amazon infrastructure one of the first steps we took was a deep analysis of the way...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
According to Werner Vogels of Amazon, the volumes can be formatted with any file system or used directly with advanced applications such as high-end database engines. Vogels also noted that EBS could be utilised, "for long term backups, rollback strategies [and] volume re-creation purposes."
Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... player in the fight to offer cloud services to enterprise customers. According to Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, adding the Elastic Block Store offers customers “persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach to a running instance of EC2.” Vogels goes into further detail about the components of Amazon’s offering in his blog. EBS volumes,...
Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... features needed to entice enterprise class applications to the cloud. According to Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, adding the Elastic Block Store offers customers “persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach to a running instance of EC2.” Vogels goes into further detail about the components of Amazon’s offering and the patterns they support:...
Telco 2.0 (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
The next Telco 2.0 event (4-5 November, London) is looking extremely strong. A big thank you to the sponsors and partners , and to the senior industry speakers (presenters and panellists) who are participating. The latter includes: Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com ; Matt Bross, Group CTO, BT (awaiting final confirmation); Will Hodgman, EVP, ComScore ; MungKi Woo, VP Payments and Contactless,...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... StumbleUpOn.com) at The Next Web Conference 2008 from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo . Werner Vogels (CTO Amazon) http://thenextweb.org/2008/07/24/video-werner-vogels-cto-amazoncom-on-uncertainty/ Gil Penchina ( wikia.com ): http://thenextweb.org/2008/06/19/video-gil-penchina-wikiacom-%E2%80%9Cgiving-insane-levels-of-control-to-your-customers%E2%80%9D/ Adeo Ressi ( TheFunded.com...
