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Is anyone innovating the Cloud like Amazon?

I am a little worried that this blog is becoming a constant affirmation of Amazon and their Cloud services However it doesn’t seem that any other people are innovating like Amazon is. I am probably referring to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors rather than the platform guys. With the announcement a couple [...]

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Azure Virtual Machine Role

I think everyone knew about it or suspected it but the ‘Azure VM Role’ was announced today at PDC. This functionality would allow you to run a full operating system instance and maintain administrative rights on the Azure platform. The scenario provided by Bob Muglia was that of choosing a base operating system instance, installing [...]

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Bridging the gap to the Cloud

In an earlier post I discussed why Amazon’s IPSEC support was important for Enterprises giving them the ability to treat the cloud provider as an elastic resource yet maintain security of data transfer.
At PDC today Bob Muglia (President of Server and Tools) discussed ‘Project Sydney’ as a way to bridge the gap between the cloud [...]

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Elastic Private Clouds are the new Black

I spent the night on Google Reader catching up on things I haven’t read for awhile and I strayed on a couple of posts related to Private Clouds and elasticity/scalability. One article even discussed that private clouds can aid in reducing OPEX. Check them out here and here.
“Private Clouds provide many of the benefits of [...]

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Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon has released their Virtual Private Clouds allowing people to extend their network and services to Amazon’s cloud services. Werner Vogels (Amazon’s CTO) describes VPC in his blog. The Virtual Private Cloud is particularly important because it opens the doors wide open for Enterprises to use cloud services. It gives them the ability to embrace [...]

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Intro’s and what not…

Welcome to the 1st post from the Cloud Pimps…
Initially I’d like to start by covering off what we’re all about… and that is T&T. Tits & Technology… yeah it may be a bit sexist, but that was our mantra over a decade ago… and while it still has some element of truth, we lean more towards the [...]

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