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Performance Expectations on a Shared Virtual Platform
Some interesting discussion linked-to within this article on Storagezilla. people using Amazon’s EC2 platform are complaining because they feel they are getting less performance than they should....
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Cloud Wars: VMWare vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon Clouds
A short time ago in a data centre, far far away….. All the big players are setting out their cloud pitches, Microsoft are set to make some big announcements at their Professional Developer Conference...
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Amazon EC2 Web Console
I’ve been doing a bit of playing about with Amazon’s EC2 cloud services recently, this is just a quick post with some screenshots of the new beta web console they have launched. Up until now you had...
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Workload Portability: Ultimate Cloud Edition
I like the PlateSpin range of products a lot, it really does let you take an OS instance + app stack (workload) and move it between different physical machines, hypervisors etc. in a low impact way –...
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Private Connectivity to Amazon EC2 – your own Private Cloud, in the Cloud
VPN connectivity and private networking within EC2 are now available, this is great news – I mused on the possibilities of this sort of thing previously in this post. This is a key step to gaining...
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Double-Take puts DR into the Cloud
A colleague passed me this link today, Double-take have a new product offering allowing copies of app-servers to be replicated to and run on Amazon’s EC2 cloud service (register article here) –...
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Bring your own Windows license for EC2, but where are Microsoft?
This is interesting, Amazon have announced a pilot scheme to allow customers with a Microsoft Enterprise agreement to port their Windows licenses to EC2, which they say reduces the average cost of a...
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