Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed?

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

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 [...]

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Amazon’s MySQL in the Cloud

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

In the next installment in its series of cloud computing infrastructure offerings, Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a cloud version of the popular MySQL database. Following the popular “pay-per-drink” model of EC2 and S3 for selling compute, storage and database access, Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL database that you can spin [...]

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Tech News Highlights: May

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

For those whose interests bend more toward web application development, some recent movements in the industry.

MySQL + Oracle = ?
MySQL, the open source database used by a huge number of websites (including ones we’ve developed) is now owned by database industry gorilla Oracle as a result of Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems. Sun bought [...]

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