Tag: Amazon

  • Amazon RDS is now generally available, with an SLA and everything

    Amazon RDS is now generally available, with an SLA and everything. Via @maslett.

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  • Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption

    Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption: Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn’t start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly…

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  • The Future of Amazon: Ambitious, Diverse, And Expansive

    This article almost made me invest in Amazon… The Future of Amazon: Ambitious, Diverse, And Expansive: In less than 20 years, the feats accomplished by Seattle’s Amazon are simply astounding and, curiously, often taken for granted. It is the world’s largest online retailer, a master of logistics, an oracle of computing power, a wrangler of…

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  • State of the MySQL Ecosystem

    Brian Aker wrote a good article about MySQL, State of the Ecosystem on his blog. Glad to see a key figure for MySQL be positive about the future of the ecosystem!

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  • Acunu NoSQL Appliance

    GigaOm reports that Big Data Startup Acunu Raises Small Funding. These guys (based in London) are building a HW appliance with SSD for a variety of NoSQL stores, currently supporting Cassandra and an Amazon S3 compatible RESTful interface. The Acunu Storage Core is an open source next-generation storage stack built from the ground up for…

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  • NoSQL Foundation Papers Summarized

    At least somebody read through the seminal papers on NoSQL technologies Google BigTable and Amazon Dynamo, and created 18-20 page summary decks to spare us the reading. Check the two decks below. Summary of Google’s Big Table Paper Overview of the Amazon Dynamo Paper

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