Here is a post that reports that all is not happy for some with their heads in the clouds.
Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
I am not directly involved with this, but figured I’d raise it in the blog.
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that [...]
http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10214663-2.html
Prior to this they have only supported Python, a language with a far more limited following. Here’s the rundown:
Supports JDK 1.6.
Free for limited use, no ability to pay for heavier use yet
Can access data behind the firewall through Secure Data Connect
Supports cron and data import ability
Uses BigTable (key/value pairs) for storage, so can’t use JDBC. [...]
Cloud computing is hot. But here’s an interesting article about the cloud model versus the downloadable / behind-the-firewall model that concludes that there are still arguments for downloadable and self-hosted software, chief being control.
Firewall vs. Cloud
And this one is about a cloud-based web app development platform which went under:
Coghead
In my opinion that’s one of the [...]
Chi-Ming & I attended the Rackspace Roadshow on Thursday, April 17th. This was chance for Rackspace to present their technology roadmap for the next year or so. Rackspace’s main business is providing managed hosting. A client would specify a build of a server which they would build or purchase, configure and install [...]
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