Comments on: Amazon’s Services Edge Towards the Enterprise http://gigaom.com/2008/04/07/will-amazons-availability-zones-get-it-ready-for-the-enterprise/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:14:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Amazon Launches Persistent Storage for EC2 - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/04/07/will-amazons-availability-zones-get-it-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-895117 Amazon Launches Persistent Storage for EC2 - GigaOM Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12069#comment-895117 [...] RightScale, a company that has received funding from Amazon and works closely with them has a great explainer on how it works, and is a must read. With EBS developers can deploy scalable solutions including relational databases, distributed file systems and Hadoop processing clusters. EBS is more adept for working with databases, as well apps that require a file system. You can now start-and-stop just like you would on a traditional physical server. This is a play for larger, corporate customers, a move that is long time coming. [...] [...] RightScale, a company that has received funding from Amazon and works closely with them has a great explainer on how it works, and is a must read. With EBS developers can deploy scalable solutions including relational databases, distributed file systems and Hadoop processing clusters. EBS is more adept for working with databases, as well apps that require a file system. You can now start-and-stop just like you would on a traditional physical server. This is a play for larger, corporate customers, a move that is long time coming. [...]

]]> By: Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/04/07/will-amazons-availability-zones-get-it-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-871154 Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions - GigaOM Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:41:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12069#comment-871154 <p>[...] especially large enterprises that want to utilize Amazon’s on-demand infrastructure. Alistair Croll earlier this month wrote a post in which he argued that Amazon was going after larger corporations, and today’s announcement [...]</p> [...] especially large enterprises that want to utilize Amazon’s on-demand infrastructure. Alistair Croll earlier this month wrote a post in which he argued that Amazon was going after larger corporations, and today’s announcement [...]

]]> By: Kaiyzen http://gigaom.com/2008/04/07/will-amazons-availability-zones-get-it-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-870158 Kaiyzen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:45:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12069#comment-870158 <p>These are great additions to Amazons already great offering. Would still love to see that SLA but we wont talk about that here.</p> <p>One note.., Availability Zones will do nothing for data protection concerns. If you have that level of concerns you are running your own data center most likely or hosting through someone who is SAS70 certified.</p> These are great additions to Amazons already great offering. Would still love to see that SLA but we wont talk about that here.

One note.., Availability Zones will do nothing for data protection concerns. If you have that level of concerns you are running your own data center most likely or hosting through someone who is SAS70 certified.

]]> By: Reuven Cohen, CTO Enomaly Inc http://gigaom.com/2008/04/07/will-amazons-availability-zones-get-it-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-870014 Reuven Cohen, CTO Enomaly Inc Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:55:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12069#comment-870014 <p>Don't get me wrong I love Amazon Web Services, but come on.. Availability zones (Assumes failure) and dedicated IP (every hosting provider gives you this "feature") both are obvious do little for the enterprise.</p> <p>What enterprises want are 1. 24/7 Support (with a phone number) 2. SLA (Get out of beta and commit to some service numbers already) 3. QoS. (What kind of quality of service am i getting?) 4. Some kind of in cloud persistent storage system (notice: we offer elasticdrive for this)</p> <p>As for whether or not fortune 500's are flocking to AWS, based on the interest we're seeing in Enomalism and related cloud services, they certainly are! (I just can't talk about them)</p> Don’t get me wrong I love Amazon Web Services, but come on.. Availability zones (Assumes failure) and dedicated IP (every hosting provider gives you this “feature”) both are obvious do little for the enterprise.

What enterprises want are
1. 24/7 Support (with a phone number)
2. SLA (Get out of beta and commit to some service numbers already)
3. QoS. (What kind of quality of service am i getting?)
4. Some kind of in cloud persistent storage system (notice: we offer elasticdrive for this)

As for whether or not fortune 500’s are flocking to AWS, based on the interest we’re seeing in Enomalism and related cloud services, they certainly are! (I just can’t talk about them)

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