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I, Lamont (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Since September, I've been experimenting with a new blogging focus on The Industry Standard . The blog is called " The Social Enterprise ," and it's all about how companies and large organizations are dealing with technologies relating to collaboration, communication, and community. It's a rich topic area that lets me talk about the various networked technologies that are transforming the...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
AWS (Amazon Web Services) unveiled this week an SDK (software development kit) intended to make it easier for developers to build Microsoft .Net applications that can access the AWS platform for cloud computing . The free AWS SDK for .Net includes the AWS .Net Library, featuring "developer-friendly" APIs for .Net that hide low-level plumbing associated with programming for the AWS cloud....
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Amazon is expanding its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure with a new offering based on the open source MySQL database system. The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) allows users to rent database capacity in the cloud and use it just like a regular MySQL database. Amazon has also introduced support for a new class of EC2 instances intended for high-memory workloads. Amazon's EC2 service...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Amazon is launching is providing users with the ability to run relational databases in the cloud. The service, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) , means that customers now have another way to use a cloud service for a function normally administered by an IT department. Werner Vogels , chief technology officer for Amazon, says the new service means that RDS customers will not have to deal with...
securosis.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Amazon has announced a Relational Database Service today: Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention...
OakLeaf Systems (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
For the second year in a row, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces new and improved services a few weeks before Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Last year it was Amazon Web Services Announces SLA Plus Windows Server and SQL Server Betas for EC2 , which I reported on 10/23/2008. This year, it’s Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Beta, announced on 10/27/2009,...
The Register (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Simple DB of a different kind Amazon has floated a new cloud based on MySQL, giving sky-high developers instant access to a database that's not its very own SimpleDB creation.…
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Amazon continues to expand the services and infrastructure it provides online. Early this morning, it announced that you can run a powerful database in Amazon’s cloud with its Relational Database Service (RDS). The RDS should serve as an online alternativ toe buying and maintaining a database server such as those offered by Sun (which owns database company mySQL). The new service uses mySQL...
Digital Walkabout (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Amazon Web Services is releasing Relational Database as a Service (RDS) - whilst AWS has a storage cloud (S3), Compute Cloud (EC2) and a non relational Database Cloud (SimpleDB), until now, they have not offered Relational Database capabilities as a...
Hugo Rodger-Brown (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Why would anyone host or manage their own infrastructure these days - http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/10/27/introducing-amazon-relational-database-service/ So now Amazon offer storage (S3), computer power (EC2), relational databases (RDS), non-relational databases (SimpleDB), queueing (SQS), Hadoop (Elastic MapReduce), people (Mechanical Turk - for when computers just don’t cut...
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Here is a breaking news from Amazon. Amazon Web Services is releasing Relational Database as a Service (RDS) . The press release is yet to go out but the website is active. They will be announcing the news at 1:00 AM PST tomorrow. Even though AWS has a storage cloud (S3), Compute Cloud (EC2) and a non relational Database Cloud (SimpleDB), they never offered Relational Databases as a service. In fact,...
securosis.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
"What the heck is up with Splunk"? It's a question I have been getting a lot lately. From end users and SIEM vendors. Larry Walsh's posted a nice article on how Splunk Disrupts Security Log Auditing . His post has prodded me into getting me off my butt and blogging about this question. I wanted to follow-up on Splunk after I wrote the post on Amazon's SimpleDB as it related to what I am...
OakLeaf Systems (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The MSDN Subscription site’s Windows Azure Platform Benefits for MSDN Subscribers page announced on 10/20/2009: MSDN subscribers can get started developing on the Windows Azure platform today . Later, following commercial availability of the Windows Azure platform, subscribers will benefit from compute hours, storage, data transfers, SQL Azure databases and .NET Services messages included at...
Gadgetopia (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Introducing The Dynamic Data Store : EPiServer is shipping a handy new feature in CMS 6 which provides for data storage of…whatever. […] storing data in a database using Entity Framework or NHibernate requires you to design and compile a class when developing your application. This works really well when you know the shape or structure of your data at compile time. EPiServer CMS has...
K. Scott Allen (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
I’ve often felt that we treat relational databases as a hammer to use with every kind of nail, screw, bolt, rivet, metric nut, and wall anchor we encounter in software development. The modern relational databases is a marvelous piece of engineering, and we have centuries of collective experience in designing, optimizing, securing, and managing them, but they just aren’t the best fit for...
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