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Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Honey, I just shrunk the server hosting businessPosted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on Nov 16, 2006 7:27 AM Subscribe Alerts: News.coms Martin Lamonica has written a two page report on Amazons utility computing initiatives under the title Amazon: Utility computing broker. As many of you know (because of the disclosures...[Read the rest]

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The new age of platforms and ecosystems: I caught up with Salesforce.com Marc Benioff at the Web 2.0 Summit, where he gave a presentation of enterprise mashups. In the video I asked Benioff about the shift from... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Nov 8, 2006 6:23 PM
Bezos banks on Amazon's utility services: Chief Amazon Jeff Bezos was first on stage on the second day the Web 2.0 Summit. Bezos pitched Amazons compute and storage services, EC2 and S3, in the cloud, which... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Nov 8, 2006 9:41 AM
With Grid Server and "GPUs", is MediaTemple a managed version of Amazon's EC2?: Back in April 2004, I wrote about HPs vision for utility computing and how the company was looking to make compute resources available and billable on an on-demand basis. One... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Oct 19, 2006 2:19 PM
Amazon's Bezos: We make muck so you don't have to: Here at MITs Emerging Technologies Conference, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos kicked things off with a discussion of something he calls muck. Its a dicussion that very much... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Sep 27, 2006 6:57 AM
What price utility computing for the Web 2.0 era?: Amazon's emphasis on 'real-time Web applications' highlights the distinction from Sun's more complex, consultant-laden Grid approach [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Aug 24, 2006 3:56 PM
Inside Amazon's EC2: Call it "utility computing" or "Web-scale computing" or "on-demand infrastructure." Whatever the case, Amazon is hoping that its new EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud--why not just S4?) Web service (in the... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Aug 24, 2006 11:44 AM
Amazon.com: IT utility to the enterprise?: The vision of computing delivered as a utility has fascinated computing goliaths and telecoms giants alike for decades. Can a dot-com retailer really beat them to the punch? [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Aug 4, 2006 12:27 PM