The elephant and the cloud


December 19th, 2007

The most interesting thing about technology change are the odd juxtapositions it throws up. If you’d asked me a few years ago who would be the leader in cloud computing, I wouldn’t have predicted that it would be Amazon.
Sure Amazon know how to run very large websites. How did they go from e-commerce pioneer to [...]

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Compute upon a cloud


December 17th, 2007

Interesting what Amazon is up to…first with cloud storage then cloud computing and now cloud databases. Is the art of data centre management going to be concentrated into a few massive data centres?
We currently rent a single Sun box, running Linux oddly enough, in a data centre to run all of our websites and email. [...]

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