How Amazon’s cloud competitors are trying to find cracks in AWS’s armor
News flash: The public cloud “ain’t all that,” says every cloud provider in the universe (except for Amazon Web Services.) Read more »
Cloud wars to rage on with dueling OpenStack, AWS events next week
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Can’t get enough cloud? Just wait till next week when OpenStack and Amazon Web Services host simultaneous events 3,000 miles apart. Read more »
Structure 2013: Bring on the practitioners!
Are you going to the sixth Structure conference on June 19 and 20? If your business depends in any way on the cloud and enterprise IT, you will want to be there. Read more »
The week in cloud: VMware fesses up; Amazon adds features; Newvem watches Amazon
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It was a busy week in cloud as VMware took the wraps off its public cloud play; Newvem added still another way to watch your Amazon account; and Amazon itself churned out a ton of new AWS features. Read more »
Netflix fronts $100K for best cloud ideas
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Netflix wants to hear about your great cloud computing ideas and is willing to pay for the privilege. Read more »
Amazon slices prices on DynamoDB database service
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Not a huge surprise: Amazon Web Services cut prices on its DynamoDB NoSQL database service just over a year after its launch. Read more »
VMware: Stick with us because Amazon will kill us all
VMware, the king of in-house server virtualization, wants partners to help it defeat Amazon for corporate cloud workloads. One problem: VMware has its own issues with its partners. Read more »
Amazon gets (more) serious about the enterprise. No kidding
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The fact that Amazon Web Services is targeting enterprise accounts is nothing new. The company’s just getting more blatant about it. Read more »
Wanted: An Amazon “enterprise challenge”
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Amazon’s cloud services are a huge hit among startups with thin IT budgets. But Amazon wants be a for-real platform for important enterprise-class applications as well. Should it launch an enterprise challenge? Read more »
Amazon’s super-duper data pipeline is now ready for its close-up
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Amazon’s Data Pipeline, which promises easy, automated consolidation of data from many sources, is now available — or at least you can sign up for it. Amazon also unveiled a new instance type for data-intensive applications. Read more »
This week in cloud: All Amazon all the time but Google gets its licks in
It was a frenetic week for cloud with Google touching off a storage price war on Monday. Amazon responded Wednesday and Google hit back on Thursday. Amazon Web Services announced a data warehouse and data pipeline service at its inaugural AWS: Reinvent show. Read more »
Jeff Bezos on the beauty of low margins and building a reusable space craft
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos came to Las Vegas Thursday to chat about Amazon Web Services and other topics with CTO Werner Vogels at the first AWS: Reinvent conference. Read more »
Amazon preps Data Pipeline service to automate big data workflows
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels unveiled the company’s new Data Pipeline Service at AWS: Reinvent conference in Las Vegas. The service aims to make it easier for AWS customers to automate data workflows between various AWS and third party repositories. Read more »
Amazon CTO on “IT life events” and building 21st-century apps
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AWS CTO Werner Vogels and I sat down at the AWS re:Invent conference yesterday to talk about whether large companies are actually using the cloud to innovate through new styles of applications. Vogels says they are, and has plenty of examples to prove his point. Read more »
Newvem makes its Amazon analytics available
Newvem has tested its analytics with customer data for 8 months and says its key finding is that customers need to hear how use of Amazon services will make them more profitable. Saving money is one thing, making money is better. Read more »
7 things we learned at Structure Europe
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Facebook’s breaking up with hardware OEMs, Europeans distrust the cloud and it’s anyone’s guess whether there will be an Amazon of Europe. Those were among the key takeaways from the first-ever Structure Europe event in Amsterdam last week. Read more »
What “unbelievable” new services does Amazon have on tap?
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What sort of amazing cloud services could Amazon have up its sleeve? Werner Vogels ain’t saying anything in detail but here are five things to watch out for where the public cloud services giant is concerned. Read more »
Amazon’s Vogels: Cloud is the resource model for today’s uncertain economy
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The consumerization of IT has led to the growth of cloud, a big shift for the major hardware players and new opportunities for startups to build a business using IT without huge up-front costs. Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels explains what’s going on at Structure:Europe. Read more »
Citrix Startup Accelerator backs Cloud Vertical to measure cloud spending
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Dublin-based Cloud Vertical, which wants to help companies get the most bang for their cloud computing buck, now has cash and backing from the Citrix Startup Accelerator to build its business, says Cloud Vertical CEO Ed Byrne. Read more »
Say hello to our 5 Structure:Europe LaunchPad finalists!
We’re three weeks away from our inaugural Structure: Europe event, but before we head across the pond we wanted to introduce our readers to our five Structure:Europe LaunchPad finalists. The companies, who come from across the EU will present on Oct. 16 in Amsterdam. Read more »
Amazon’s Vogels ponders the new IT metrics: a topic even foggier than the cloud
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Comparing the cost of on-demand computing to buying your own infrastructure is one way to look at IT costs in a cloud era, but it’s a shortsighted way to measure how cloud computing can affect your business. Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels outlines another way. Read more »
Europe: Lots of cloud opportunity to tap
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European cloud adoption has happened slower than in the U.S., but there are signs that it’s about to rapidly accelerate. At Structure:Europe, cloud luminaries will talk about how they see this change unfolding and what’s motivating it. Hint: It’s not just about saving money. Read more »
VMware plans cloud spin out to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google
VMware is planning a corporate shake up and hopes to spin out its platform as a service division and its Greenplum assets into a separate company. The move would help VMware and EMC compete in the PaaS space against Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Read more »
Companies to spend $207 billion on cloud in 2016
The launch of Google and Microsoft public clouds is looking well timed, as the corporate demand for public cloud services is about to go through a steep growth curve, research group, Gartner forecasts. Like Amazon, Both companies have been lustfully eyeing corporate customers. Read more »
Google launches Amazon rival, Compute Engine
Google has announced plans to start offering a compute-on-demand service that rivals Amazon’s EC2 service. The company will initially offer this as a limited preview to larger customers. It is a strong and logical move by the company as it continues to view for developer affection. Read more »
Amazon’s Werner Vogels on next 5 years of cloud
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It’s been five years since Amazon CTO Werner Vogels first sat on the GigaOM Structure stage with Om. Instead of looking back, in their short chat they looked ahead at where the cloud industry and the major players would find themselves in the next five years. Read more »
Eucalyptus updates cloud platform in open source mold
Eucalyptus, the company that wants to link private clouds to the Amazon cloud, is updating its platform software bringing it more in line with the open source model. All Eucalyptus 3.1 code will be available on Github. Subscribers will get plug-ins and other perks. Read more »
On Structure’s 5th birthday, some video highlights to watch
In late 2007, in a conversation with my colleagues I pointed out that over the next decade or so, the Internet’s infrastructure was going to be transformed in a very fundamental manner. It would start with the proliferation of Amazon Web Service-style core cloud computing and […] Read more »
Amazon spruces up cloud support options
Amazon is looking more like an enterprise tech vendor all the time. On Thursday, it announced spruced-up support offerings for customers deploying work on the AWS cloud. As it woos companies to put mission-critical loads into Amazon’s cloud, expect more support services to come. Read more »
Hey cloud startups, have we got a treat for you!
Every year at our Structure 2012 conference we host a Launchpad of startups. This year, we decided to give the 10 finalists more than stage-time: We teamed up with venture firm Sequoia to give them a hands-on training session at Sequoia HQ. Read more »
Is Amazon the Hotel California of Web services?
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels to IT customers: “If we’re not delivering the right services you should walk away.” While one would disagree with that, many question exactly how easy it will be for customers to walk away if they use high-end Amazon services. Read more »
Amazon moves freak out partners and rivals alike
Amazon’s Eucalyptus deal, which gives it a better hybrid cloud story and solidifies the dominance of the AWS API, plus the ever-growing AWS feature set, aren’t necessarily all good news to PaaS and other partners that run their services on Amazon infrastructure. Read more »
Amazon cloud moves spook partners and customers
The more features that Amazon Web Services puts on its roster, the more nervous AWS partners — and some customers — get. As the company comes up the stack, adding workflow, richer database and other services, many partners and customers fear cloud lock-in. Read more »
Gidsy goes to Hollywood with its Airbnb for activities
Hot Berlin startup Gidsy, which lets people find and book tours, lessons and other offline experiences, is opening the doors on a service in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Read more »
Amazon queues up new workflow service
Amazon says its new Simple Workflow Service (SWS) will run applications that are distributed between customer sites and Amazon cloud infrastructure, thus further blurring the line between the customer’s own data center and their chosen cloud. Read more »
Amazon launches home-grown NoSQL database
Amazon Web Services is adding a home-grown NoSQL database to its roster of cloud computing offerings. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels calls DynamoDB a “fully managed” NoSQL implementation the company built over the years and and tested by customers for a few months. Read more »
Amazon’s Werner Vogels on the Stonebraker/NewSQL debate
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The furor over Michael Stonebraker’s criticism of Facebook’s scaling of its MySQL database we covered last Thursday has continued to generate comments on the post itself and on Twitter. Friday, Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels weighed in with a tweet that seemed to accuse Stonebraker of hubris. Read more »
Meet Cloud Computing’s Brightest Minds at Structure 2011
At Structure 2011, hear from top executives from leading companies and the most innovative minds building the next-generation of the cloud. Find out where cloud services are headed and how they’ll affect everything from application development to data center design. Read more »
Structure Video: The State of The Cloud, Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels
At our Structure 2010 conference, Amazon CTO Werner Vogel delivered his the State of the cloud speech. He argued that cloud computing came of age in 2010, as companies transitioned from using cloud for some trial projects to full blown applications. Watch the video! Read more »
Structure 2010: Amazon's CTO Says the Cloud Has Arrived
Werner Vogels, Amazon’s chief technology officer, said at GigaOM’s Structure conference that the biggest change in cloud computing over the past year is that “we went from talk to action.” Instead of just thinking about implementing cloud solutions, companies are rolling them out aggressively, he said. Read more »
