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Webcasts

On Demand Webinar with Amazon: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise

August 9, 2010 12:00am PDT

Discover the benefits, use cases, challenges, and solutions for cloud computing in the enterprise. In this webinar, you'll learn how you can leverage Amazon Web Services and newScale software to:...

Provided by: newScale

White Papers

Vulnerability Seen in Amazon's Cloud-Computing

October 24, 2009 12:00am PDT

Leading cloud-computing services may be vulnerable to eavesdropping and malicious attacks, according to research that shows it is possible for attackers to precisely map where a target's data is...

Provided by: State University of New York, Stony Brook

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Silanis Brings e-Signatures to Amazon Cloud Computing

October 29, 2009 12:00am PDT

The Silanis cloud deployment is offered with IBM's WebSphere and DB2 software to provide a complete solution on the Amazon EC2 service. A fully functional solution can be enabled for use on the...

Provided by: Silanis Technology

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Amazon Enters the Cloud Computing Business

May 20, 2008 12:00am PDT

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked at the clock on the instrument panel of his Segway Human Transporter; it was 7:52AM and he knew he would need a little luck to get to his 8:00AM meeting at Amazon's...

Provided by: Stanford University

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Cost Minimization for Provisioning Virtual Servers in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

June 5, 2011 12:00am PDT

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides a cloud computing service by renting out computational resources to customers (i.e., cloud users). The customers can dynamically provision virtual...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 5: Dataset Processing in the Cloud With SimpleDB

February 10, 2009 12:00am PST

Learn basic Amazon SimpleDB (SDB) concepts and explore some of the functions provided by boto, an open source Python library for interacting with SDB. In this "Cloud computing with Amazon Web...

Provided by: IBM

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Scientific Computing Using Virtual High-Performance Computing: A Case Study Using the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud

August 29, 2008 12:00am PDT

High-performance computing systems are important in scientific computing. Clusters of computer systems - which range greatly in size - are a common architecture for high-performance computing....

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 3: Servers on Demand With EC2

October 14, 2008 12:00am PDT

In this paper, learn about cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. Explore how the services provide a compelling alternative for architecting and building scalable, reliable applications. This...

Provided by: IBM

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Reducing Costs of Spot Instances Via Checkpointing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

March 16, 2010 12:00am PDT

Recently introduced spot instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offer lower resource costs in exchange for reduced reliability; these instances can be revoked abruptly due to price...

Provided by: INRIA

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Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud

May 20, 2009 12:00am PDT

Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key...

Provided by: IBM

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Performance Analysis of High Performance Computing Applications on the Amazon Web Services Cloud

December 8, 2010 12:00am PST

Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access compute...

Provided by: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

White Papers

Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part

July 29, 2008 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing derives from the common depiction in technology architecture diagrams of the Internet, or IP availability, illustrated as a cloud. Cloud computing gained attention in 2007 as it...

Provided by: IBM

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Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 1: Introduction - When It's Smarter to Rent Than to Buy

July 29, 2008 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing can be loosely defined as using scalable computing resources provided as a service from outside the environment on a pay-per-use basis. One uses only what one needs, and pay for...

Provided by: IBM

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Cloud Computing for Parallel Scientific HPC Applications: Feasibility of Running Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Climate Models on Amazon's EC2

October 23, 2008 12:00am PDT

This paper describes the application of HPC standard benchmark tests to Amazon's EC2 cloud computing system, in order to explore the utility of EC2 for modest HPC style applications. Based on...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Software

CloudBerry Explorer PRO for Amazon S3 3.2.3.21 (Windows)

February 2, 2012 12:00am PST

CloudBerry Explorer Pro offers some advanced features over Freeware version. It makes managing files Amazon S3 in even easier, more secure and cost efficienet. By providing a user interface to...

Provided by: CloudBerry Lab

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CloudBerry Explorer PRO for Amazon S3 3.2.3.21 (Windows)

February 2, 2012 12:00am PST

CloudBerry Explorer Pro offers some advanced features over Freeware version. It makes managing files Amazon S3 in even easier, more secure and cost efficienet. By providing a user interface to...

Provided by: CloudBerry Lab

Blog Posts

Amazon EC2 drops a pricing bomb to lure IT leaders to the cloud

March 12, 2009 9:21am PDT

Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web...

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Blog Posts

Review: CloudBerry Online Backup for Amazon S3

December 3, 2009 11:28am PST

CloudBerry Online Backup for Amazon S3, from CloudBerry Lab, makes backing up any computer to the Internet a snap with an easy backup wizard.

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Building Applications in the Cloud

October 3, 2009 12:00am PDT

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is designed to build and install Oracle Database and Oracle Application Express applications. A browser-based application, Oracle Application Express needs...

Provided by: Oracle

Videos

TechCrunch cloud computing roundtable: Scaling apps on Facebook

March 2, 2009 1:21pm PST

At the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable on Friday in Mountain View, Calif., panelists discuss the difficulties in creating and scaling applications in the cloud. Scott Dietzen, Yahoo senior...