All Posts Tagged With: "Amazon"
Amazon EC2 Now With Beta Support for Windows
Beta level support for Microsoft Windows is now available on Amazon EC2, in the form of 32 and 64 bit AMIs, with pricing starting at $0.125 per hour. Microsoft SQL Server is also available in 64 bit form.
27Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRackspace Acquires Cloud Providers Slicehost And Jungle Disk
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Rackspace Hosting today announced it has acquired privately owned VPS provider Slicehost, and storage provider Jungle Disk. (hat tip to TechCrunch)
The purchase price of the combined acquisitions is approximately $11.5 million payable in cash and stock, with the potential for up to $16.5 million in additional payouts of cash and stock based on certain performance criteria.
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rPath Takes rBuilder Technology to Amazon EC2
rPath today announced the beta launch of its rBuilder Appliance Creator and rBuilder Catalog features for the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2).
5Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCohesiveFT Adds Elastic Server Support for Amazon EC2
Tomorrow, CohesiveFT, makers of the Elastic Server platform, will announce support for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) large, extra-large and high-CPU instances.
25Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHyperic CloudStatus Now Monitors Google App Engine
We’ve covered Hyperic before, most recently when they added monitoring for Citrix XenServer environments to their Hyperic HQ service. The company just announced that their CloudStatus service now also supports Google App Engine, after launching with advanced monitoring for Amazon EC2 services.
20Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedELASTRA Adds Support for Eucalyptus Platform
ELASTRA, which recently raised $12 million from Amazon and other investors, today announced Elastra Cloud Server support for the Eucalyptus platform.
20Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedElastra Raises $12 Million from Amazon for Cloud Management
Elastra, a startup focused on providing solutions for internet cloud configuration and management, secured $12 million in Series B financing in its second venture round, which was was led by Bay Partners, with Amazon.com and existing investor Hummer Winblad also participating. Elastra had previously raised $2.6 million.
5Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedVirtualization.com Contest: Guess What’s on Werner Vogels’ Mind and Win A Book
Guess what Werner Vogels has written in O’Reilly’s “Programming Amazon Web Services S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB” book, and maybe you’ll get it for free!
31Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedAmazon Loves CloudStatus, And We’ve Got The Proof on Video
At the O’Reilly Velocity conference we attended last month, Hyperic was there to hype the launch of Cloudstatus, which aspires to become the monitoring tool for cloud providers. Get the lowdown on Hyperic and CloudStatus in this video (two parts) from Jon Travis (Principal Engineer) and Xavier Soltero (co-founder and CEO).
29Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedHyperic Launches CloudStatus, Cloud Management Software Deluxe
In an impressive effort to make the cloud more transparent, open source cloud management software vendor Hyperic has launched CloudStatus.com, a web service (in beta) that lets a user peek in on the various compute clouds to see how things are running.
23Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | ContinuedBuild Your Own Cloud!
Given enough hardware, you can now build your own Amazon Elastic Cloud or similar platform. And all in Open Source. A group of developers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara has recently released EUCALPYTUS, a tool that can make your personal Cloud dreams come true!
6Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | ContinuedVMware Fusion Worth Only $ 40?
Amazon has knocked of $20 of the price of VMware Fusion, which brings the price down to $59.99 from the $79.99 list price. On top of that is a $20 mail-in rebate which gets the software for $39.99, free shipping included.
11Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
