Monthly Archives: March 2011

The Case for Cloud Computing in Large Scale Enterprises

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

With IT budgets increasingly stretched thin, CIOs in large scale enterprises are considering cloud computing because it offers an alternative to data centers containing expensive servers that need to be constantly maintained by expensive technicians and periodically replaced. Alongside IT … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services: Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation Explained

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

Amazon Web Services has recently released Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation, two applications that automate the process of provisioning hardware resources and deploying applications on AWS’s flexible, inexpensive development environment. Introduced on January 19, Elastic Beanstalk automates the process of deploying … Continue reading →

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Company Profile: Joyent and Application Virtualization

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

Joyent is a cloud computing vendor based in San Francisco. Founded by David Young (CEO) and David Hoffman (Chief Scientist) in 2004, Joyent is an Infrastructure as a Service vendor whose business model targets large scale enterprises, particularly in the … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services and the Large Scale Enterprise Space

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

In a December 2010 article titled “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting”, Gartner positioned Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a visionary within its Magic Quadrant in the Cloud Computing Space. Within the “Visionary” category, Amazon … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services (AWS): A Brief Introduction

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Although Amazon.com began as an online retailer of books in 1995, it was not until 2002 that it entered the market for technology services with its Amazon Web Services (AWS) product. Today, Amazon Web Services is most pertinently known for … Continue reading →

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